[WikiEN-l] Template usage?

Sat Sep 9 08:11:24 UTC 2006

Some day we'll need to come up with a comprehensive list of all those
working on CVU / RC patrol and together switch all the policies so
that vandals no longer know the location of AIV :) I remember when
someone put hundreds of instances of the nazi symbol on an article and
it took half an hour till somebody figured out how to use the
index.php?target=...&action=edit format to get rid of it, and after
various accounts vandalised with the same vandalism, yet another
sockpuppet applied for the page to be semi protected and succeeded!

On 9/9/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, but it doesn't protect against vandals who registered, didn't edit
> for 4 days and the vandalized.  If they're vandalizing templates, they're
> not just people who come to Wikipedia and say "wow, i can delete this entire
> page lol!" - they're vandals who've been doing it for a while and are
> familiar with Wikipedia, so they probably know how to get around
> semi-protection.
>
> On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, semi protection ensures that good users who aren't yet sysops
> > can edit a template when they need to. We have a whole lot more than
> > 1000 trusted editors who regularly edit templates.
> >
> > On 9/8/06, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I personally think that any template transcluded 80-100+ times or
> > > > transcluded in 10+ feature articles / wikipedia space pages, or even
> > > > transcluded in two policy pages (disclaimers etc.) should be semi
> > > > protected, and really widely used templates that are vandalised
> > > > despite semi protection should be fully protected.
> > >
> > > I agree, if not fully protected at least semi-protected.
> > >
> > > -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
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