[WikiEN-l] Main Page Featured Article

[xaosflux]

The highly used meta templates should just be moved to {{hprotected}}, 
[[Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests]] never seems to have that much 
of a backlog if legit updates are needed.  (e.g. I just added {{for}} to 
hprot).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Hare" <messedrocker at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Main Page Featured Article


> We should be locking the meta templates -- the kind that won't be changing
> anytime soon and if there's vandalism it'd be awful.
>
> On 12/18/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I assume most of the list's readers know what problems we've been having
>> with the TFA each day on the main page (vandals inserting shock images
>> into
>> transcluded-on-transcluded templates). In case some don't, I'm posting
>> this
>> to see if anyone has ideas off how to avoid this. It's been discussed
>> extensively on ANI, and there does not seem to be a workable solution to
>> it.
>> The images are being uploaded by sleeper socks old enough to upload them,
>> and protecting every single template on TFA (including
>> transcluded-on-transcluded ones) can be tedious for the admins. I've
>> suggested perhaps substituting the templates before they become TFA (and
>> re-transcluding after), but do the other list readers have any solution?
>>
>> --NSLE
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