[WikiEN-l] A quiet revolution

[David Gerard]

On 31/01/07, 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.


*pint* to Werdna!

(He's currently running for admin on RFA. There are those voting
against *because* he's a developer; I would have thought that would
have led to new features being particularly suited to administration
of the site. But presumably I am wrong.)


- d.