On 31/01/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
If that was deliberate, I would have called it a surpassingly beautiful hack. But it's serendipitous. That's somehow even *better*.
So dare I ask, what's the oversight on this? I'm waiting for the first day an article is protected that has never been created, in particular.
Well, pre-emptively protecting [[deliberate example redlink]] may be doable now ;-)
In all seriousness, though, the oversight is that it can easily be seen what pages are protected in this way - the central "transclusion" page for these is public, and can be watched easily enough.
(I suppose people can sneakily cascade-protect trivial obscure subpages with fake transcludes... but, then, they could do deleted-protected on pages which had never been created under the old system, too. So no new way of being a dick...)