On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I would like to see, and what I have been hoping
to see, is either
implementation of the prior proposal (taking a form similar to that used by
de.wp) or actual proposal of a true compromise version. The current poll
asks us to just give up.
No, the current proposal is a conservative starting point. It is a
proposal to a) get Flagged Revisions turned on and b) give the
community a chance to see what it's like to use flagging in live
content situation.
The proposal is designed so that the scope of flagging can be adjusted
easily through policy, rather than software, changes. If the
community agrees, after testing out flagged protection for the trial
period, that more articles should be protected (say, all BLPs), then
all it requires is consensus to change the scope of protection policy.
Support probably exists to use flagging more aggressively in the
future, but most editors want to take it one step at a time (or are
willing to go slowly for the sake of others who want to take it one
step at a time).
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)