This certainly isn't the better place to discuss a suggestion of this sort. I understand real-time interaction with editors is impossible via an edit request. Nonetheless, to be objective, this is a request to modify a wiki article, and you, as a former editor, should know that your ideas could be better expressed in a request with the modified article source proposing your changes.
I think that way, you could give us a starting point to work around or further this discussion rather than opening that to an entire community to leave their input. It's a subject related to a wiki article, it should be treated as such.