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The current policy regarding protection of the current day's featured article attempts to balance two quite important but competing interests: maintaining the editability of the featured article, and maintaining the integrity of an extremely high visibility article. Rather than having a tradeoff between these two interests through semi-protection, or allowing one interest to be entirely upheld at the expense of the other (as through full protection, or no protection), a fully protected stable version of the day's featured article could be created, and linked directly from the main page. A template on the stable version of the article would direct users to the article itself if they wished to edit the article; the article itself would be left unprotected (except for pagemove protection). The inability to vandalize the high-visibility version of the article linked directly from the main page would deter much vandalism, and would significantly decrease the impact of any vandalism that did occur.