`  == Re: John McCain ==  You're welcome.  Images can be protected here, but we generally don't preemptively protect images unless they are extremely visible, such as the ones on the Main Page. As far as having to full-protect the templates, you may be right, but not an incredible amount of people know how to vandalize that way, and we want to allow as many people as possible to edit as many pages as possible. If any of the semi-protected templates are vandalized, we will most likely full-protect the vandalized template, but it is rare to full-protect such uncommonly used templates preemptively.   BTW, the way to find template vandalism like that is to: # Go to an unvandalized page and click on ``edit this page``. # In your browser's address bar, change the name of the page you are editing to the name of the page that has been vandalized (remember to use underscores, ``_`` in place of spaces.) # Click ``go`` and it will open the edit box for the page that has been vandalized. Scroll down, and you will see a list of templates that have been transcluded in the page. Open up all the ones that are not ``protected`` (full-protected) and look at the template's histories until you find one that has been edited recently. # Revert vandalism and report the vandal to WP:AIV and mention that they are a ``template vandal``. # Sit back, relax, and revel in the knowledge that no vandal on the face of the earth can outsmart you! -)  Thanks for reporting the vandalism. Not many people watch templates, and John McCain is a very high-visibility article. Cheers!  `