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::That's a good idea. We can have some sort of template that is used by Adopters to notify users they intend to adopt an article. It would contain some canned text, including those options. --[[User:Aarnott|Aarnott]] 21:26, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
:::It's a step away from the article consistency thing we decided to aim for a while back, but it's worth exploring. I'm a bit concerned over the "1 day" part, but would go along with it to see how it worked out. I would also want the wiki community to be able to step in (as a result of some consensus) and throw down a revert if an adoption slipped through or turned out to be worse than the original. That sort of thing shouldn't be reserved for absent authors only.
:::I'm not a fan of branching at all though, not unless they look like actually different articles. If they're not substantially different then I don't want it. Having article XYZ and article XYzZ is not a page count increase we need. If there's a disagreement over direction, the original author should win and the adopter can make something substantially different. This shouldn't happen often though, since the point of adoption would be to take it in a new direction or make clean up edits that the author never responded to on the article's talk. - [[User:Tarkisflux|Tarkisflux]] <sup>[[User talk:Tarkisflux|Talk]]</sup> 21:46, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
