Automatic protection for Main Page? It would be straightforward to write a bot that (1) protected all images on the main page, adding Template:Mprotected, and (2) unprotected all images with Template:Mprotected that no longer appeared on the main page. Feature (2) would be genuinely useful and save editors work. However, if editors came to rely on feature (1) then that would introduce a risk, because there would always be a gap between an image appearing on the main page and the bot protecting it. A clever vandal could vandalize the image in that gap. And worse, the bot would end up protecting the vandalized version of the image. I suppose the bot could attempt to detect vandalism like that but you can see how complex the process could become.  08:13, 2005 May 13 (UTC)