On 1/14/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/01/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
However, there's been a debate brewing over whether a certain bot could be given admin status, so that it could explicitly apply protection to any page included by a given page. I believe this bot was intended to address the same problem (i.e. main page vandalism). Presumably that debate can now be called off, as the bot is no longer needed?
Heh, the bit he's not commenting on....Werdna disliked the bot on principle, I think, and this partly boosted his work on the functionality in question. So yes, the bot is more or less redundant.
It's a bit unfortunate.. the feature is too blunt. Now LOTS of templates pages are protected because one of their many including pages are protected. Since a lot of protections are there to dampen content disputes and simplistic vandalism, this is unnecessary.
Should we instead just protect the entire template namespace?