I personally think that any template transcluded 80-100+ times or transcluded in 10+ feature articles / wikipedia space pages, or even transcluded in two policy pages (disclaimers etc.) should be semi protected, and really widely used templates that are vandalised despite semi protection should be fully protected.
On 9/8/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/8/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen protection for high-profile templates like this mentioned before, but never implemented; after I mentioned these attacks on WP:AN, someone protected all three. Is anyone capable of coming up with a list of all individual templates transcluded on, say, more than a couple of hundred pages? Even if we don't *protect* these (I strongly suggest we do - they mostly shouldn't be edited without a good reason, much like the MediaWiki messages), having a few dozen admins watchlisting them would be helpful.
See [[WP:HRT]] (1). I put together some stats on high volume templates when I first drafted that page (2), but they're wildly out of date by now. Hopefully when the toolserver is working properly again for en, we'll be able to update those statistics.
-- (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-risk_templates (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_templates_by_usage
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