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# I support PC, but the polarisation towards options one and two suggests to me that we haven't learned the lessons of the failure first time around. There are two broad groups of situations where pending changes is useful. One, where the vast majority of edits are good faith, but bad faith ones are causing exceptional damage. Two, where the vast majority of edits are bad faith, but the article nonetheless has a history of productive anon edits. Pending changes in its current form is a <u>''terrible''</u> solution on articles that attract a large number of good faith and bad faith contributions alike (current events, suspected deaths, extremely high profile figures etc). In a nutshell, the draft policy in option #2 does not give any guidance on the tool's strengths and limitations. '''It must.''' —[[User talk:WaitingForConnection|WFC]]— 13:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC) (there is a third, important group PC is useful for that I omitted: very low traffic BLPs). —[[User talk:WaitingForConnection|WFC]]— 14:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
# The current draft policy will need to be revised before I can support reactivating Pending changes/Flagged revisions. To this end I recommend that [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Flagged Revisions|WikiProject Flagged Revisions]] be reactivated (and if need be renamed [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Pending Changes|WikiProject Pending Changes]]) to address the concerns of Tryptofish and Allens amoung others. – [[User:Allen4names|Allen]]4[[User talk:Allen4names|names]] 05:07, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
# For pending changes, there needs to be a clear guide on what should and shouldn't use it, and when it's appropriate to add it to the article; it has to be at least remotely easy to use and navigate too, which it was far from. There are articles where pending changes would work wonders (years, schools), yet there are articles where they would be a waste of time. The two extremes above give me a bad gut feeling about how it's going to turn out, as deciding between none at all or them everywhere is a lose-lose situation. [[User:Wizardman|<span style="color:#030">'''''Wizardman'''''</span>]] <sub>[[User:Wizardman/Operation Big Bear|<span style="color:#600">Operation Big Bear</span>]]</sub> 14:31, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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