Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Restore long term protection when short term protection expires

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YES

Yes please, every bot maintainer and every editor fighting vandalism will support this wish. Myself included. I will vote for it later, of course, just wanted to thank the author for putting it out. Le Loy (talk) 02:20, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Questions

Hi @ScottishFinnishRadish - thanks for filing this wish, I think it's a great suggestion and has clear benefits. It looks like there's been some discussion about this at T142209, though I'm not sure why that work stalled. It sounds like the most obvious way to implement this would be to enable multiple blocks to be active on a page at once with different time frames. Then when one expires, the previous protections are still active to their previously-configured expiry dates. Does that seem like a reasonable solution to you? Can you imagine any edge cases where this wouldn't make sense? Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 10:58, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

That's exactly how I would do it if I were writing the code. I don't see any issues where it wouldn't work, but I'm also kinda a meatheat, so I could easily be missing something. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:50, 15 November 2024 (UTC)