Forum:SH Archive/Telling people they're editing GAs/FAs

Almost every day it happens that people are editing GAs or FAs without sourcing their edits or sometimes they even make the quality worse. I've just recently had the idea of telling the people that they are editing a GA or FA. The idea came up when I randomly pressed the edit button on Wikipedia, where I saw the notice: "This is a disambiguation page, for directing readers quickly to intended articles. For details, see the disambiguation page style guideline.". I know that we're not Wikipedia, but I actually like this concept of telling people what they're doing. If there would be a notice like...:

"This is a featured article, which means that it's considered one of our best articles. Any new edits to it must adhere to our sourcing policy. Edits that lower the article's quality qualify for immediate revertion. In case you're unsure if your edit is productive to the article, it's recommended to talk to the author(s) first."

...those bad edits to GAs/FAs might reduce. Sure, "male exile" vandals won't stop because of this notice, but the editors with good intentions who are just not aware of our policies then know that they source the edit, and they reconsider if the edit is really productive. I have checked out the source, and it should be working here (unless Wikia has made something that this doesn't work). So, what do you think of this idea?  Pranay Sobusk  ~  Talk  18:10, September 13, 2009 (UTC)