On 1/31/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@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.
I saw a mention of this -- very interesting, not sure why it hadn't occurred to me. I'm of the opinion that it may still sometimes be better to use {{deletedpage}} (unless we have some way of very quickly explaining to people how and why this cascading protection is being used to salt a given article).
Has anyone set up a central page for this, yet? Since the actual transclusion list would have to be admin-protected, it might be a good idea to have a "policy page," which then transcludes the (admin-protected) list of deleted pages. Sort of the reverse of our usual "protected template with unprotected documentation subpage" structure.
-Luna