Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-5079138-20170405082737

If you've been a content mod/admin/crat for a while and actually used the protect feature, you may notice the "cascading protection" option on it. Now what it does is that it basically protects the page as well as protecting the pages and templates that are used on it (category isnt covered).

The problem is that someone might just abuse it and decide to use it the whole time and potentially breaking the edit functionality (e.g. using cascading protection + admins and content mods only protection on userpages that contain links to proper articles). We don't want this of course, because dealing with complaints about an article suddenly not being able to be edited by anyone but content mods and above can sometimes be irritating and embarrassing. Also, considering the fact content mods and above do protect their own userpages, it's really possible for someone to, either deliberately or accidentally, turn on the cascade protection and screw up the page protections on linked articles.

Now I'm glad it's only used on some templates and a sub-userpage, but still, we have to prevent it. If this is supported then, just replace the cascade protection on the offending articles with regular protection and make a rule about disallowing this feature to be used by staff and it should be fine.

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