Stephen --
The policy dictating the protection of templates and images directly on the Main Page is long-standing. Luna was referring to the templates on Today's Featured Article itself; the protection of images / templates on that article is a relatively new thing.
-- Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-
Stephen Bain wrote:
On 12/19/06, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Full protection, obviously. The incident last week where such vandalism was on the main page for fifteen minutes until it was found was by an established account, semi-protection wouldn't have stopped it; indeed the template that was affected *was* semi-protected at the time the vandalism occurred.