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.

Protected edit request on 27 December 2021

add the "VV" text to the anti-wheels vandalism [WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩] it ended up getting used in yet another WOW strike 172.112.210.32 (talk) 06:59, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done:

This is the current line:

.*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ][ ]?[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩][HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]+[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].* <moveonly> # Disallows moves with "on wheels" with 2 or more Es

What exactly do you want it changed to? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:10, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't know how regex works but I would assume it would be something like ([WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩]/VV) to include "VV" as valid, like how ₩ is included, but as a 2-character string instead of one. 172.112.210.32 (talk) 03:35, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done (not ready to go) anyone is free to continue to discuss this, and when a ready-to-go request is ready, post it and reactivate the edit request. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:48, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Presumably the IP means
.*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ][ ]?([WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩]|VV)[HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]+[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].* <moveonly> # Disallows moves with "on wheels" with 2 or more Es
 ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:29, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

IP, can you provide a link to the log where this happened? — xaosflux ^Talk 22:08, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

User_talk:WiIIie 0n Christmas VVhɘɘls. The name's it. Can't be sure this is another one of WOW's accounts but based on the number of Unicode substitutions it's more than likely. 172.112.210.32 (talk) 02:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

should this request be reopened? now that we know what the 172 is referring to as well as put ɘ on the blacklist? 67.21.154.193 (talk) 16:37, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

67.21.154.193, WP:BEBOLD. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:39, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Giiant?

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#I can’t create my user page. Any insight on why this is blacklisted and/or getting around it for their user and talk pages? Thanks. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

It was added by NawlinWiki over thirteen years ago. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:46, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 12 January 2022

Add 'Renxe' to the title blacklist. Renxe has already been create-protected, and an editor is gaming the protection with disambiguation, at Renxe (writer). Robert McClenon (talk) 23:46, 12 January 2022 (UTC) Robert McClenon (talk) 23:46, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

 Not done @Robert McClenon: I think this went stale, and isn't actually a problem anymore? — xaosflux ^Talk 01:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Okay. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:49, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 20 January 2022

The entry .*JEWS DID .* <casesensitive> is redundant to the case-insensitive entry .*JEWS DID.* #VasilievVV 2008-05-01 on the global blacklist and can be safely removed. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:23, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

 Not done not hurting anything, and we shouldn't have to rely on another project's blacklist. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:58, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 8 February 2022

Please add WikiProject:.*. As noted at WP:SHORTCUT, there is consensus against this as a pseudonamespace, but people still occasionally try to create pages in it, perhaps because some other wikis do have such (pseudo)namespaces. There may be rare cases where it would be acceptable to create such a title as a redirect to an article or section on a WikiProject—Special:PrefixIndex/WikiProject shows a few such titles without colon, which is why I'm not requesting the blacklist extend to that pattern—but those can be handled on a case-by-case basis by sysops/TPEs/PMRs; I doubt it will come up at all, given that it never has before. Past RfDs: 8 titles (main precedent for with-colon and without-colon), WikiProject:Trade, 11 titles, WikiProject:Wikipedia, WikiProject:Indiana, WikiProject: Environment/Climate change task force, WikiProject:Micronations (most recent precedent). -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 10:41, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 00:57, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Articles about Griffpatch on Scratch qualify for deletion always

Pages about him had to be deleted three times.

(.*:|)griffpatch <noedit> #Griffpatch is not suitable for Wikipedia.

Faster than Thunder (talk) 03:18, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Draft created despite blacklisting?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T85393

See #Polimata above. I'd have thought the regex /.*pol[ií]mata.*/ would have prevented creation of en:Draft:El Polímata, but it didn't. If drafts aren't excluded by default, this is a situation where sockpuppets have been creating numerous articles and drafts about this performer, sometimes more than one at a time. (See en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/El Menor Mc.) Perhaps two dozen or more have been deleted by now. Largoplazo (talk) 15:07, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppets didn't create that title; Robert McClenon did. —Cryptic 16:13, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

The sockpuppet created the article. But that's material only to why this pattern is on the blacklist. Regardless of who moved it, does the blacklist not prevent pages from being moved to a title? Should it? Largoplazo (talk) 16:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

• @Largoplazo: that page was created by Toleterd at User:Toleterd/sandbox (c.f. creation log), which would not have been impacted by the titleblacklist. User:Robert McClenon is a member of the Wikipedia:Page mover access group, which includes the (tboverride) permission. Users with that permission may create titles on the blacklist. phab:T192767 is open about how they don't get warned that the destination title is on the title blacklist during move operations. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

• Thanks for the explanation. And I appreciate your adding the update to the Phabricator ticket, which I endorse. Largoplazo (talk) 17:25, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I would have Rejected the sandbox draft if I had known that the title was blacklisted. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon I don't think anyone is faulting you here - we need to make the interface better, but it requires a software change upstream. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:28, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Definitely not faulting you, but the contrary: following the discussion above, I assumed that you would have reacted just so if you'd received such a warning. Largoplazo (talk) 19:32, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

• I've opened a specific feature request, phab:T302630 to request an improvement to this workflow. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:47, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
  • I knew I'd seen those before, thanks Cryptic, I've updated and merged all of those. If I would have remembered I'd have pushed for it on the wishlist. Listed at meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox#2023_-_Warn_on_moves_to_sensitive_titles to try to remember next time :( — xaosflux ^Talk 11:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Collateral request: Can we add /.*omar\s*brito.*/ to the blacklist? This is the artist's real name, and, generally with disambiguators, it is part of the title of some of the numerous articles and drafts that the socks have created about this person. For example, the latest sock, in addition to the draft discussed above, concurrently created Draft:Omar Brito and Draft:Omar Brito De Jesús (singer). Largoplazo (talk) 12:30, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

MLBP

It seems that the entry .*MLBP.* #Blatant hoax was added in 2012 for sockpuppets of Wetsoap (talk · contribs), which has not seen an SPI since, so the entry can be removed. I seek to create a disambiguation page at MLBP between Mitch Laddie's record label and a topic mentioned at Local binary patterns. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:16, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

It looks like a similar concern was raised two years ago at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive316#Creating_MLBPitchingCoaches_Template. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

 Done Jake Wartenberg (talk) 14:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Rayhan Ahmed spam

Requesting title blacklist for Rayhan Ahmad, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rayhanahmed21. Persistent recreation of salted article. Deppty (talk) 13:19, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

If it's all in draftspace, what's the point in blacklisting (or even salting)? It will just make him harder to catch. IMO we should go the opposite direction and unsalt Draft:Rayhan ahmed. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 13:27, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

What Tamzin said. Salting/blacklisting is rarely a good idea for non-notable biographies when socking is involved - all it does is result in the article ending up at ever more obscure titles, making more work for those cleaning up.  Not done. firefly ( t · c ) 15:13, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 21 May 2022

Some regular expressions can be expressed with less characters:

• .*Huff Da(l|ll)and.* -> .*Huff Dall?and.*
• .*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ][ ]?[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩][HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]+[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].* -> .*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ] ?[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩][HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]+[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].*

Also, I think that Gadget( definition)? talk:.* could be changed to Gadget( definition)?( talk)?:.*. Keyacom (💬 | 🖊) 12:41, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

The second one can be reduced even further, using the repetition shorthand:

• .*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ] ?[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩][HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]{2,}[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].*

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:12, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

May i add that titles with "on wheeels" with more than 2 e's should probably be disallowed as well. 67.21.154.193 (talk) 13:11, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Thats already the case. {2,} essentially means 2 or more of the previous thing. Aidan9382 _(talk) 20:16, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 30 May 2022

Should we just remove the entry .*giiant.*, since nobody remembers what it was for? For reference, the discussion previously linked is now archived at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive339#I_can’t_create_my_user_page. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:49, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Also, I think we can sefely remove the entry .*Mega [Mm]om.*. This entry was linked to Wetsoap (talk · contribs), who has not had an SPI report since 2012. I'm not sure if the redirects Mega Mom → Codename:Kids Next Door#Villains and The Adventures of Captain Fantastic & Mega Mom → Christopher Showerman#Filmography should be created. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:59, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03, I've created the latter page. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

 Partly done - the giiant one is related to "giant %bodypart%" type vandalism, so left it. I created the redirects and SPP'd them for the mega moms. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:43, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Ban foreign characters in titles in draftspace

Looks like foreign characters are banned from titles in mainspace, userspace, and filespace, but not draftspace. I suggest changing all instances of (User|Wikipedia|File) to (User|Wikipedia|File|Draft). It would prevent draft writers from creating pages such as Draft:4 Season Project 季, then confusing our AFC reviewers who try to accept it and get a titleblacklist error message. Example. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

It may look like it to you, but it sure doesn't to me. None of, for example, 4 Season Project 季, User:4 Season Project 季, or File:4 Season Project 季 are blacklisted, nor should they be. Which regex are you looking at? —Cryptic 03:39, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately the regex is cut off in the message. It only says (?!(User. Screenshot. –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:47, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

By the way what method are you using to test if a title matches the title blacklist? I'd like to test some titles but don't want to pollute mainspace. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Re-reading the regex's I requested be replaced, (?!(User|Wikipedia|File)( talk)?:|Talk:) is a negative lookahead, rather than a positive, so my initial edit request was probably flawed. Better disregard. Would still like to troubleshoot the Draft:4 Season Project 季 can't move to mainspace issue though if anybody sees what's going on with that. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:23, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

If you try to create a blacklisted title, you get a warning saying so on the edit-page screen (MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-forbidden-edit). Example. If you're an admin (or, presumeably, a pagemover or templateeditor), you instead get told which regex it matches (Mediawiki:Titleblacklist-warning). No need to save.

Looks like it's matching (?!(User|Wikipedia)( talk)?:|Talk:)\P{L}*\p{Latin}.*[^\p{Latin}\P{L}ʻ].* <moveonly> # Latin + non-Latin in the "# DISALLOW PAGE MOVES TO MIXED-SCRIPT TITLES [...]# Intentionally move-only due to false positives" section. I'd call this a false positive, ayup. Want me to move it for you? (And shouldn't it be to Love Story (4 Season Project 季) or Love Story (Kyuhyun album) instead?) —Cryptic 04:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Good call on the title. I've renamed it to Draft:Love Story (Kyuhyun album). Now that the hanja character is gone, I suppose we can just let the AFC reviewer approve it. Thanks for your help my friend. –Novem Linguae (talk) 04:56, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 15 June 2022

The entry .*Maisani.* appears to involve the LTA Brucejenner (talk · contribs), whose last confirmed SPI was in 2013, and can probably be removed if there is anyone notable with this name. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:44, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

• Added in 2012 by NawlinWiki. NawlinWiki - still needed? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:05, 17 June 2022 (UTC)