[[User:Lucky 6.9]] and I have been discussing this possibilty: What if one was able to proect a deleted/nonexistent page? The same page would not be created over and over if it has no place in Wikipedia. When the clueless newbie/troll/vandal goes away, it can be unprotected, just like normal. The best defense for this is the fact that the {{deletedpage}} template would become obsolete. In addition, it would be a relief on the servers (even if it's minor). Any thoughts?
--Ryan
On 9/4/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) wrote:
[[User:Lucky 6.9]] and I have been discussing this possibilty: What if one was able to proect a deleted/nonexistent page? The same page would not be created over and over if it has no place in Wikipedia. When the clueless newbie/troll/vandal goes away, it can be unprotected, just like normal. The best defense for this is the fact that the {{deletedpage}} template would become obsolete. In addition, it would be a relief on the servers (even if it's minor). Any thoughts?
--Ryan
Submitted to bugzilla as bug# 3357 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357.
ABCD
ABCD (en.abcd@gmail.com) [050904 16:39]:
On 9/4/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) wrote:
[[User:Lucky 6.9]] and I have been discussing this possibilty: What if one was able to proect a deleted/nonexistent page? The same page would not be created over and over if it has no place in Wikipedia. When the clueless newbie/troll/vandal goes away, it can be unprotected, just like normal. The best defense for this is the fact that the {{deletedpage}} template would become obsolete. In addition, it would be a relief on the servers (even if it's minor). Any thoughts?
Submitted to bugzilla as bug# 3357 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357.
We already do this in some cases, in the form of creating a blank page and protecting the blank page for a while. I'm not sure we need to add a feature to MediaWiki.
- d.
On 9/6/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
ABCD (en.abcd@gmail.com) [050904 16:39]:
On 9/4/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) wrote:
[[User:Lucky 6.9]] and I have been discussing this possibilty: What if one was able to proect a deleted/nonexistent page? The same page would not be created over and over if it has no place in Wikipedia. When the clueless newbie/troll/vandal goes away, it can be unprotected, just like normal. The best defense for this is the fact that the {{deletedpage}} template would become obsolete. In addition, it would be a relief on the servers (even if it's minor). Any thoughts?
Submitted to bugzilla as bug# 3357 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357.
We already do this in some cases, in the form of creating a blank page and protecting the blank page for a while. I'm not sure we need to add a feature to MediaWiki.
- d.
I think the goal of this feature would be to get rid of the need to create a blank page and protect it. Looking at [[Special:Shortpages]], for example, is nearly impossible, because of all the deletedpage templates in there. What they're advocating is making this unnecessary.