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Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 12/19/06, 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?
> 
> Every type of vandalism goes away if we can implement a short delay
> before the page goes "live". Allow rollbacks/undos to be carried out
> on non-live versions of the page, and edits should also always be
> performed on the newest version.
> 

You're wrong. Subtle vandalism isn't prevented by a time delay.

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