[WikiEN-l] How wikipedia could link into File Protection.

[Jay Litwyn]

<WJhonson at aol.com> wrote in message news:d10.52ec3825.3798bb32 at aol.com...
> In a message dated 7/22/2009 7:01:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> sinewave at silentflame.com writes:
>
> OK - so  I think a fair summary of this proposal (correct me if I'm wrong)
> is:
> We  should create a group of experienced BLP editors (or similar) to
> edit a BLP  that has been the subject of an edit war. The page would be
> protected from  editing by other (non-sysop) users.>>
>
> Why do you say "non-sysop" ?  Are you proposing this editing be  limited 
> to
> admins ?
> If so I'd vigorously oppose.

The group, however moderated in membership, should normally control the 
flags that allow all to read or write on a page that is as controversial as 
a living subject. Only in a [[WP:wheel war]], where there was no polling (or 
where the recording of the poll was not well done) on the talk page, would 
an admin be stepping in. Note that you could not implement quizes without a 
control like this, because there would be no way to prevent _everyone_ from 
reading the answers in the source or the talk page for the bot that did the 
quiz. It is better if users need to guess which answers they got wrong and 
inquire of group members about why an answer might be wrong.