Wikipedia talk:How to revert a page to an earlier version/Policy vote: Protect or slow down editing

message: The previous poll ("Revert wars considered harmful") and discussion below indicate that a large majority of the community are in favor of the guideline "do not revert the same page more than three times in the same day".
For the purposes of this proposed policy, since it is more rigid than the current guideline, the rule would be no user may revert 6 or more times the same page in one 24 hour period - these 6 reverts have to be to one page. This rule is not intended to grant an allowance of 5 reverts per user per day per article: reverts should be avoided.
The only exception to this rule will be in cases of clear political conflict; not content disputes, but covering up after a user who goes on a timely campaign of political activism, like the current case of User:Bird and her never-ending list of proxy IPs, sock puppets and allies with which she is circumventing a hard ban. Of course, assaults against User:bird began after Bird reverted pages only once. 
Currently, when users engage in a revert war, sysops may decide to protect that page. A temporary page protection is supposed to allow the users to calm down and discuss the problem on the article's talk page.  However, this prevents all users from editing the page in question.
This proposal is intended to be less agressive toward the user (as it does not prevent him entirely from editing wikipedia, at least talk pages are available) to avoid the risk of teaming up of a couple of users against another user.
Two options are proposed.
#Banning one (or more) user from the page during 24 hours; 
#Slowing down the edition process of a page from one specific (or more) user during 24 hours (for example, only one edit for that page for the user)
=== Arguments in favor ===
*More acceptable to the numerous people who expressed themselves in disfavor of the ban
*Banning or slowing down a user for 24 hours will give them time to calm down and to step back and examine their actions.
*When one or two users misbehave, the rest of the community is no longer punished by being prevented from editing certain pages and having to follow warring users around, cleaning up after them.
*Less aggressive toward users
=== Arguments in opposition ===
*Requires tech implementation, but protection of article per user has often been mentioned as potentially very beneficial
*What about anonymous users? IP addresses can change, particularly with users on dial-up.
*The definition for user is uncertain. Includes "user" sysops as well? It's a requirement...
=== Per article per person protection ===
==== Wikipedians in favor ====
# FirmLittleFluffyThing
# James F. (talk) 13:07, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Policy vote: per article ban or per user page protection for revert wars? 

message: ==== Wikipedians in favor ====
# FirmLittleFluffyThing
# James F. (talk) 13:07, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Per article per person protection 

message: # FirmLittleFluffyThing
# James F. (talk) 13:07, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedians in favor 

message: # Taku
# Ruhrjung
# Wik
# Anthony DiPierro
# Lirath Q. Pynnor
# Nephelin
# bsoft
# Stirling Newberry
# Gene Nygaard 19:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedians opposed to this proposed policy 

message: ==== Wikipedians in favor ====
# FirmLittleFluffyThing
# Ruhrjung (Aint sure about precise implementation, but slowing down editing seems a good idea)
# James F. (talk) 13:07, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Per article per person slow editing 

message: # FirmLittleFluffyThing
# Ruhrjung (Aint sure about precise implementation, but slowing down editing seems a good idea)
# James F. (talk) 13:07, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedians in favor 

message: # Taku
# Wik
# Anthony DiPierro
# Lirath Q. Pynnor
# El
# Among other things, this won't stop reverters. ugen64 01:34, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)
# Nephelin - an ip address is easily changed
# bsoft
#Ryan_Cable 11:36, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedians opposed 

message: # Hephaestos|§ 17:26, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abstentions