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[Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-]

I think fully protecting templates on Main Page related articles has 
become the norm. See {{mprotected}} and the category linked from the 
template page.

-- Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-

Luna wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu- <tariqabjotu at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> What disturbs me about the vandalism on the Main Page articles is the
>> fact that the vandals don't appear to be drive-by vandals, but rather
>> users who know who to use the right tags and summaries to mask their
>> activities and inflict the most damage. Not to be the pessimist here,
>> but we're clearly dealing with a professional vandal who knows how to
>> beat the system. We need to take action against this person in
>> particular, if that is possible, because once we block one avenue,
>> (s)he'll just find another.
>>     
>
>
> Along those lines, we need to remember checkuser -- they can't review and
> block the source, if we don't let them know which usernames to check. The
> usual "block and move on" mentality won't quite cut it, in this case;
> there's an ongoing section at RFCU about all of this, and unfortunately the
> checkusers can't see everything.
>
> Rangeblocks have been slowing it down, but have not yet stopped it. We need
> to explore new options, including protection options for templates.
>
> As far as templates on TFA, is there consensus as to whether they should be
> semi or fully protected? We're obviously dealing with somebody smart enough
> to start using sleeper accounts, is what I figure, but I'm not sure how much
> they've done so, yet.
>
> Eh. This one is incredibly frustrating, to me.
>
> -Luna
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