[WikiEN-l] Allegations of Apartheid Allegations AFD

[Kevin Wong]

Well, it's closed now...

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:18 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/7/13 Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com>:
>
> > Honestly, all of those articles should be under heavy lock and probation
> key
> > with all the regular partisans, admins or not, kept not just on a short
> > leash but under threat of imminent tasering by everyone else. I'm amazed
> > they aren't.
>
>
> There's a strong cultural bias against locking articles at all, so
> protection or semi-protection is only applied when absolutely
> necessary in general (there's lots of people who regularly go over the
> lists of locked articles to see if they can be unlocked yet).
>
> For particular perennially problematic subject areas, this would mean
> semipermanent locking would only be applied by arbcom ruling, and even
> then they prefer to deal with it by dealing with problematic
> individuals. Even when, because an article is about a real-world
> conflict, there's an endless supply of problematic individuals. I
> expect this would be arbcom's extreme reluctance to get into content
> arbitration.
>
> (There's various moves to form a content-mediation committee, which
> wouldn't have the force of arbitration but would help editors of good
> will sort this stuff out - not binding, but would certainly count as
> evidence of good will the way sincerely attempting mediation does.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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> - d.
>
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