Andrew Garrett wrote:
Brion's just enabled a feature of mine called "Cascading Protection". Simply put, this automagically applies temporary full protection to any page included on a page protected or semi-protected with the "cascading bit".
Excellent! Well done.
However, there's been a debate brewing over whether a certain bot could be given admin status, so that it could explicitly apply protection to any page included by a given page. I believe this bot was intended to address the same problem (i.e. main page vandalism). Presumably that debate can now be called off, as the bot is no longer needed?