User:Slakr/Pending changes observations

These are notes to myself about my experience with pending changes.

Edit war / content disputes
Real life example: Being presented with an edit that, if accepted, furthers an edit war, but if rejected (e.g., via rollback or undo), inherently involves the reviewer in the edit war.
 * Ideally comments could be made to other reviewers about an edit, or an edit could be declined in a form other than undo or rollback.

Low-traffic, obscure pages
Real life example: An edit to an obscure school page that is already poorly sourced, and the edit is hard to verify.
 * Apart from overhauling the entire page (not feasible to demand of PC patrollers) and apart from waiting for someone with first-hand knowledge of the topic to eventually approve the edit (could take months), It might be an idea to suggest an official guideline to avoid using pending changes on low-traffic articles to avoid clogging the PC queue.