On 14/01/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)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?