On 07/09/06, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote:
On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
someones) vandalising {{cquote}}, {{otheruses}} & {{taxobox}} in the same manner. I've seen this form of vandalism before ({{bio-stub}} is
I checked these templates and I see that there are many eyeballs on these and little or not vandalism.
The problem is, a little vandalism can be disproportionately effective. Let's invent the metric of "vandalised minutes" - if I spam pictures of penises across the daily featured article, and it's reverted in a minute, I've made one article-minute of vandalism. If I do it to another article, it's not caught for five minutes... five article-minutes.
If I do it to {{NPOV}}, which is in use on three thousand pages, then being reverted after one minute means a net result of something like two article-*days*, not minutes, when you account for all affected pages. (This includes the effect being seen on protected/semiprotected pages, and I half suspect this is one of the reasons things like {{taxobox}} were being hit)
Simply being able to clean these up quickly is fine for normal pages, but substantially less fine for things like this.