Module talk:Protected edit request: Difference between revisions

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:''The module also attempts to detect the protection level of the pages used, and if any pages have a different protection level from the function specified it adds the page to Category:Wikipedia edit requests possibly using incorrect templates.''

Instead of populating an error category, why not just choose the appropriate function based on the protection level? &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 19:17, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

::Because we can't do it accurately. The module can't detect when something is on the title blacklist, and it can't detect when a page is cascade-protected. It would put such pages into the category for whatever protection level is returned by <code><nowiki>{{PROTECTIONLEVEL}}</nowiki></code>, even though actually only admins can edit them (or template editors for the title blacklist). If this becomes possible to detect on the MediaWiki side then we should probably do as you suggest, and indeed this is how I wrote the code originally, so it would be trivial to switch it back and add the new protection detection. Having some pages categorised wrongly probably outweighs the benefits of being able to get the protection level for most pages, however. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' ^{[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]} 21:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)