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== 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 stocksVillage_stocks#east718 and Betacommand for the "It seemedSeemed likeLike a goodGood ideaIdea atAt the timeTime..." 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 ==