I never liked the {{deletedpage}} template. It makes links blue when the article in question doesn't actually exists and seeing bluelinks to non-existent articles is damn annoying. It might have been unintentional, but I say we use it to our advantage and cascade protection for salted articles.
Mgm
On 1/31/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/01/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
It has been discovered that the new system of cascading protection (which protects any element transcluded in a page protected with the cascade bit turned on) allows us to transclude and thus protect a non-existent article. Thus, we can effectively protect a deleted article without using the horrible {{deletedarticle}} template. Users get a reasonably helpful message telling them why it's not there, and it does not appear on Random, does not appear in mirrors, does not show up at the top of the Google hits (which will please the foiled vanity spammers as well as allowing us to be kind to them). I can't think of a downside offhand.
*pint* to Werdna!
(He's currently running for admin on RFA. There are those voting against *because* he's a developer; I would have thought that would have led to new features being particularly suited to administration of the site. But presumably I am wrong.)
- d.
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