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Tue Dec 19 05:16:39 UTC 2006

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> On 12/18/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Assuming that a {{subst:}} works recursively and automatically, which
> I really don't know...  My MediaWiki installation is outside my
> immediate hands-on test radius unfortunately.
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Temporary substing is something to explore. But it would have its own
problems, I think -- meta templates aren't substed when you subst the main
template, from my experience. Substing all the infoboxes and other templates
on a page can make it pretty ugly, too... unless we were thinking about
copying all the templates to temporary subpages?

An adminbot is starting to sound a bit more tempting, from my end. Any bot
would be able to find and protect TFA, and absolutely everything transcluded
onto it, pretty easily, I think. Though I don't imagine that'll be an easy
sell. Might be easier to see if we can get pgkbot to report all edits to
that set of pages in the IRC counter-vandalism channels.

Still just brainstorming, here.
-Luna