Some day we'll need to come up with a comprehensive list of all those working on CVU / RC patrol and together switch all the policies so that vandals no longer know the location of AIV :) I remember when someone put hundreds of instances of the nazi symbol on an article and it took half an hour till somebody figured out how to use the index.php?target=...&action=edit format to get rid of it, and after various accounts vandalised with the same vandalism, yet another sockpuppet applied for the page to be semi protected and succeeded!
On 9/9/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
Right, but it doesn't protect against vandals who registered, didn't edit for 4 days and the vandalized. If they're vandalizing templates, they're not just people who come to Wikipedia and say "wow, i can delete this entire page lol!" - they're vandals who've been doing it for a while and are familiar with Wikipedia, so they probably know how to get around semi-protection.
On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Well, semi protection ensures that good users who aren't yet sysops can edit a template when they need to. We have a whole lot more than 1000 trusted editors who regularly edit templates.
On 9/8/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
I personally think that any template transcluded 80-100+ times or transcluded in 10+ feature articles / wikipedia space pages, or even transcluded in two policy pages (disclaimers etc.) should be semi protected, and really widely used templates that are vandalised despite semi protection should be fully protected.
I agree, if not fully protected at least semi-protected.
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