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Bug 9687 - Cascading protection does not affect image pages.
Cascading protection does not affect image pages.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9583
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.10.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 8575
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Reported: 2007-04-25 02:48 UTC by Mark Clements (HappyDog)
Modified: 2007-04-26 19:09 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Clements (HappyDog) 2007-04-25 02:48:07 UTC
You can stop a page being created by using transclusion and cascading protection:
* Create a page for this purpose and protect it, with cascading protection enabled.
* Transclude any pages you don't want to be able to create, by adding them to
this page, using {{:Page name}}. 

This will show up as a red link on the page, and the page will be protected from
creation by anons (or non-sysops, depending on protection level).

If you attempt this for an image page, however (by entering {{:Image:name}}
then, for some reason, the link is purple and the image page is not protected.

You can see an example of this at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Protected_titles/list

This may have something to do with the fact that the image in question has a
page on commons (or at least the fact that the link is purple may be because of
this) - I have not tested it for images that don't exist at all.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2007-04-26 19:09:01 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9583 ***

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