MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

The following instructions were copied from mw:Extension:Title Blacklist.

The title blacklist is maintained as a system message MediaWiki:Titleblacklist.

This page consists of regular expressions, each on a separate line. For example:

Foo <autoconfirmed|noedit|errmsg=blacklisted-testpage> 
Bar #No one should create article about it

There is no need to use "^" at the beginning and "$" at the end; these are added automatically.

Each entry may also contain optional attributes, enclosed in <> and divided by |

• autoconfirmed — only non-autoconfirmed users are unable to create/upload/move such pages
• noedit — users are also unable to edit this page
• casesensitive — don't ignore case when checking title for being blacklisted
• errmsg — the name of the message that should be displayed instead of standard

When the action is blocked, one of the following messages is displayed together with the filter row (as $1): titleblacklist-forbidden-edit, titleblacklist-forbidden-move, titleblacklist-forbidden-new-account or titleblacklist-forbidden-upload. Generic filenames have their own custom error message, MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-imagename.

There is also MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist and a global title blacklist.

Only administrators, page movers and template editors can override this list on all actions. When they override this list when creating or editing a page, MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-warning is displayed. Account creators can override this list on account creations only.

The username blacklist is handled at meta:Title blacklist by adding entries with the <newaccountonly> parameter.

False positive match for title containing ayin ring

A title containing a modifier letter left half ring, used in some contexts for transliteration of Arabic, threw a false-positive match for a blacklist entry beginning with (?!(User — it is unclear which one — when I attempted to move the article Abū al‐ʿUqūl to the same title with a hyphen-minus instead of the non-ASCII hyphen. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:09, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

My tests have shown that. For example, attempting to move User:LaundryPizza03/Happy 'Ayin, al-Iktibar (with an apostrophe) to User:LaundryPizza03/Happy ʿAyin, al-Iktibar (with an ayin) failed. In the meantime, the article has been moved by WP:RM/TR and then I moved it to Abu al-'Uqul using the basic romanization, per WP:TITLESPECIALCHARACTERS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:18, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 10 April 2023

Please add the following entry to the title blacklist: Special talk:.* <errmsg=Titleblacklist-custom-special-discuss>. Then add the following to the title blacklist notice MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-special-discuss:

{{editnotice
|id=Titleblacklist-custom-special-discuss
|1={{Notice
|image=OOjs_UI_icon_alert-destructive.svg
|text=<big>'''This is not the talk page for the special page [[{{replace|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Special talk:|Special:|count=1}}]]!'''</big> The talk page for this special page is located at [[{{replace|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Special talk:|Wikipedia talk:Special:|count=1}}]].<br/>{{#ifeq:{{lc:{{BASEPAGENAME:{{#ifeq:{{replace|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Special talk:|Special:|count=1}}|}}}}}}|{{lc:Special:BlankPage}}|This special page might be used by a [[Wikipedia:Gadgets|gadget]] or a [[Wikipedia:User script|user script]] that you have installed. If so, please contact the script owner if you notice a problem with this page.|To report a bug with this special page, please submit a bug report on [[phab:|Wikimedia Phabricator]]. It is possible that a [[Wikipedia:Gadgets|gadget]] or a [[Wikipedia:User script|user script]] that you have installed is interfering with the special page.}}<br/><small>If this is the page that you are trying to {{#ifexist:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|edit|create}}, please ask for help on the [[Project:Administrators' noticeboard|Administrators' noticeboard]] or {{submit an edit request/link|display=submit an edit request}}.</small>
}}
}}

I believe this is an uncontroversial entry because the Special talk: namespace does not exist, and new users might be confused where to discuss special pages or report bugs for them. A new user might assume that "Special talk:ListUsers" is the talk page for "Special:ListUsers", given Wikipedia talk:About and Talk:About are talk pages. MediaWiki does not have special talk pages and showing a notice letting them know where the actual talk page is will be helpful for new users. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 17:18, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

I object. This is a solution in search of a problem. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:49, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

@Awesome Aasim do you have any evidence that this is actually a problem? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:46, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Pages with this sort of title have been deleted about a dozen times. Once even in the last decade! And I suppose there might have been moves without redirects, but those aren't as easy to look for. —Cryptic 10:07, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

No, wait, it's only the move target that's ridiculous to check. Still, the only move ever from this title pattern was this test in 2012. —Cryptic 10:13, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: No response from OP — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:53, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Removing an entry?

I don't usually mess with the blacklist, but Ticket:2023040210003924 was requesting the removal of an entry, and it seemed reasonable enough. What's the usual procedure for removing items from the blacklist? CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 21:36, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Unless you're going to do it yourself, or want to use the admins' noticeboard, you should probably just propose it here using an edit-request template if appropriate. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 22:37, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit request May 2023

Please blacklist:

• "Object show"
• "Inanimate Insanity"

WP:COATRACK for WP:BFDI, already blacklisted. Thanks 118.149.80.96 (talk) 22:30, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

 Not done it isn't clear what you want done. Please provide the exact text of the change you would like to make, as if you could edit the page yourself. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:51, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Filename blacklist

Hello, I am new to writing Wikipedia pages but I am not completely sure that this it the right page. I attempted to upload an image of the boyflux flag, which was named "boyflux.png" I was trying to upload this in my sandbox, however I just ended up with this message instead: "The file name you were trying to upload has been blacklisted because it is very common, uninformative, or spelled in ALLCAPS. Please go back and choose a better file name. When uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, please use a file name that describes the content of the image or media file you're uploading and is sufficiently distinctive that no-one else is likely to pick the same name by accident." I tried to change it's name to "boyfluxgenderidentity.png" but got the same message. I also do understand that I do have a past of vandalism however I've stopped doing that to wikipedia pages, and now will only edit them if I see errors, or would like to cite sources that are missing from them. Mrsimonst9969666 (talk) 18:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

It might be a bug, I could try to upload it if it doesn't work on your side. Which boyflux flag do you want? (There are a bunch of them, I guess probably this one? I'll have to check the license to see if it can be uploaded but I think it should) Chaotic Enby (talk) 07:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

@Mrsimonst9969666: This would be an issue with the commons:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, not with ours, although at a glance I'm not seeing anything in their blacklist that would cause this issue. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 07:09, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane

Is this too broad?

.*[^\0-\x{FFFF}].* <casesensitive> # Very few characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane are useful in titles

I ask because of 𠔻 (talk · contribs), whose username matches this pattern but, as far as I can tell, doesn't break the username policy. – Joe (talk) 14:06, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist exempts single-character titles in article and talk namespaces, such as 𠔻, and should probably do the same for all other namespaces. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:24, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Fully protected edit request 5/25/23

# Stop repeated creations of G1 word salads
.*mixing.*sailors.* # See https://en-wiki.kfd.me/w/index.php?prefix=draft%3Amixing+sailors&title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1

Append this section with

.*rooster.*inversions.* # See https://en-wiki.kfd.me/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Gsthae_with_tempo!

Looks like Gsthae with tempo! is repeatedly using this title to create patent nonsense pages now - I think it would be a good idea to blacklist titles that consist of some combination of "rooster inversions".

-- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 14:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm leaning towards decline. Fuzzy undelete of Draft:Rooster inversions currently shows all hits (there aren't any outside of draft), including two your pattern won't match. There's only been ten, and all are relatively recent: two created early January, two late January, one each in mid- and late February, and four spread out over the last two weeks. By way of comparison, Mixing Sailors has been over a hundred titles, in multiple namespaces, and has persisted at least eight years. Blacklisting now is likely to do more harm than good; they'll just work around it and the new variants will go unnoticed, like how Draft:Rooster-Inversions survived almost three months (because nobody was looking for the pattern yet) and how Draft:Mÿxing-Säïlors was crafted specifically to evade its pattern and lasted more than a month. —Cryptic 06:53, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Request refactored for clarity. SWinxy (talk) 20:07, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

I noticed that Draft:Rooster.Inversions was created today. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 04:51, 31 May 2023 (UTC)