On 12/18/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) nsle.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, the problem extends beyond the TFA due to the widespread use of these vandalised templates...
On 19/12/06, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
We should be locking the meta templates -- the kind that won't be
changing
anytime soon and if there's vandalism it'd be awful.
On 12/18/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) nsle.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I assume most of the list's readers know what problems we've been
having
with the TFA each day on the main page (vandals inserting shock images into transcluded-on-transcluded templates). In case some don't, I'm posting this to see if anyone has ideas off how to avoid this. It's been discussed extensively on ANI, and there does not seem to be a workable solution
to
it. The images are being uploaded by sleeper socks old enough to upload
them,
and protecting every single template on TFA (including transcluded-on-transcluded ones) can be tedious for the admins. I've suggested perhaps substituting the templates before they become TFA
(and
re-transcluding after), but do the other list readers have any
solution?
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I think Messed is saying that these templates should be protected anyway. The fact that they're in FAs isn't really relevant, if anything their being vandalized is just drawing our attention to the fact that they should be protected.