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Line 11: == Historical context == As honored in the [[Wikipedia:Village stocks#Maxim for the "Doesn't do anything anyway" award\|village stocks]], this succeeds the admin who [[Wikipedia:Village stocks#Scientizzle for the Baby and Bathwater award\|locked the servers for half an hour by deleting]] the [[WP:SAND\|Sandbox]], necessitating the [[WP:BIGDELETE\|restriction of deletions for pages with over 5,000 edits]]. It is followed by the editor who [[Wikipedia:Village_stocks#east718 and Betacommand for the "It ~~Seemed~~seemed ~~Like~~like a ~~Good~~good ~~Idea~~idea Atat the ~~Time~~time..." award\|used a bot to add 1,200 useless edits to the Main Page]], hoping to bring it up to the 5000-edit level where it would not be deletable. Fortunately, the English Wikipedia Main Page now enjoys a ''[[sui generis]]'' immunity to deletion in the software.<ref>[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2008-February/089554.html Fwd: Re: Deletion of large pages] Tim Starling, WikiEN-l Mailing List, February 4, 2008.</ref><ref>[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-config/CommonSettings.php;14aaa8d1fa8401ddb52f7e248bdc816fa1a2aa91$1829-1845 The code that implements the protection]</ref> == See also == [[File:~~Try~~Enwiki toMain Page delete ~~the main page~~screen.png\|~~450px~~500px\|thumb\|Following this incident, the vulnerability was addressed. If a person tries now, they ''should'' receive the message shown above: "~~you can't~~ {{int:cant-delete ~~or move the~~ -main -page.}}" This is '''not''' an excuse to try to delete the Main Page~~. It might work! (We mean~~; the deletion might work~~{{mdashb}}not the excuse.)~~!]] * <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:Log\|page=Main_Page}} Main Page log]</span> ** <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:Log\|type=delete&page=Main_Page}} Main Page deletion log]</span> * [[Wikipedia:Silly things/Template:Uw-delmain1]] * [[Wikipedia:Delete the main page]] * [[Wikipedia:Silly things/Template:Uw-delmain1]], [[Wikipedia:Silly things/Template:Uw-delmain2\|2]], [[Wikipedia:Silly things/Template:Uw-delmain3\|3]], and [[Wikipedia:Silly things/Template:Uw-delmain4\|4]] * [[Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose]] ** [[Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose/Uh-huh\|/Uh-huh]] * [[Wikipedia:Bad Idea Machine]] * [[Wikipedia:Village stocks]] – other very bad ideas that have been tried * [[Wikipedia:April fools/April Fools' Day 2004/Delete the main page]] * [[Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion/Main Page]] * [[Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Main Page]] ** [[Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion/Main Page\|Capital D nominations]] ==Notes== Line 27 ⟶ 33: == References == {{refs}} {{Wikipedia essays\|Humor}} {{Main Page topics\|state=collapsed}} [[Category:Wikipedia essays]]