On 12/19/06, Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu- tariqabjotu@gmail.com wrote:
The policy dictating the protection of templates and images directly on the Main Page is long-standing. Luna was referring to the templates on Today's Featured Article itself; the protection of images / templates on that article is a relatively new thing.
Of course, what I was intending to convey is that the type of vandalism we're seeing lately (using more complicated tricks of wikisyntax), of which that main page template vandalism was the clearest example, isn't something that can be defeated by semi-protection.