It’s protected in preparation for being preloaded on the edit pages if enabled. This won’t show up in WhatLinksHere.
From: · Firefoxman [mailto:enwpmail@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:54 PM To: Brian Salter-Duke; English Wikipedia; Mets501 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Preloading template in new articles
Why is the page protected if nothing links to it?
From the history:
"Protected Template:Article starter: included in MediaWiki namespace [edit=sysop:move=sysop]"
But when you look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Article_starter , you see this is false.
On 1/23/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:51:22AM -0500, Mets501 wrote:
Would anyone object to preloading a references section in every new article? For example, when a user searches for a topic and clicks the big "Create this article" link, the user will be shown a page like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testing...testing...testing <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testing...testing...testing http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Testing...testing...testing&actio &actio n=edit&preload=Template:Article+starter> &action=edit&preload=Template:Article+starter.
The text of this template is at [[Template:Article starter]].
Why not add <references/> as well. I'm always forgetting to check whether it is there before editing a section and adding refs.
--Mets501
-- Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au [[User:Bduke]] mainly on en:Wikipedia. Also on fr: Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikiversity
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