https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22521
--- Comment #3 from Jesús Martínez Novo <[email protected]> 2012-04-20 19:27:33 UTC --- Saibo: The reason for cascade protection existence is to protect the page and everything that it's included on the page from being changed. Templates are protected because their contents are transcluded on the page. Since editing the template would change the contents of the article, cascade protection prevents the edition of the template contents. For images/files, what it's included in the page is the image itself, not the description, so the upload or revert of versions of the image should be prevented. Uploading a new version of a file is like editing a transcluded template. There's no point in prevent the edition of the file description since editing it won't affect the protected page in any way. If you want file descriptions to be protected just transclude them on the protected page, like {{:File:Example.png}}. That would be consistent with other namespaces. Otherwise I don't see any point in using cascade protect just for file description pages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
