[WikiEN-l] A quiet revolution

[Kat Walsh]

On 1/31/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> It has been discovered that the new system of cascading protection
> (which protects any element transcluded in a page protected with the
> cascade bit turned on) allows us to transclude and thus protect a
> non-existent article.
>
> Thus, we can effectively protect a deleted article without using the
> horrible {{deletedarticle}} template.  Users get a reasonably helpful
> message telling them why it's not there, and it does not appear on
> Random, does not appear in mirrors, does not show up at the top of the
> Google hits (which will please the foiled vanity spammers as well as
> allowing us to be kind to them).  I can't think of a downside offhand.
>
> Guy (JzG)

Really? Nice!

The protected deleted pages still appearing on Google *are* sometimes a problem.

-Kat

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