Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-5907266-20140922024611/@comment-452-20140922161700

I must have forgotten to mention that Template:Wikia_Gaming_Footer is also used on far more wikis than Template:HorrorGameFooter, and since creation in 2008‎, has never been vandalised once.


 * Possible target? Yes.
 * Likely target? History says no.

Since interwiki templates are cached anyway, even if someone were to vandalise one, there's an incredibly high chance that it will be noticed before the changes are seen anywhere else - so there is less reason to protect an interwiki template than a regular "high use template".

However, the better question is:

Who is responsible for maintaining the interwiki footers on Community Central?
 * Staff or CC Admins? - protect them, and regularly update them.
 * The community? - unprotect or semi-protect them.