Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested

Requested edit filters
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Prevent removal of talk page headers

• Task: Identify when an editor removes all items in a talk page header or removes a portion in a way that breaks a template
• Reason: It's not uncommon for inexperienced editors to remove a talk header while trying to use a talk page. Many of these edits go undetected for a long time.
• Diffs: Special:Diff/1105054073, Special:Diff/1136030142, Special:Diff/1084946475

Thebiguglyalien (talk) 00:34, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Monitoring removal of all WikiProject banners at Special:AbuseFilter/953; let's see what's going on and what can be done. There might be some potential for a filter similar to Special:Abusefilter/957. I think really this is a mobile UX bug, where it is really easy to edit the first section of a page by hitting the edit button at the top. Galobtter (pingó mió) 03:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Seems to catch a decent bit, so now testing at Special:AbuseFilter/1243. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done. Set to disallow per Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard#Set_1243_to_disallow?. Galobtter (talk) 05:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Interstate 20 spam link

• Task: Prevent insertion of i20accidents.com/i20-accidents into the Interstate 20 article
• Reason: Several IPs from the same general range of addresses in Bangladesh keep adding a link to a website ostensibly run by a law firm seeking clients related to vehicle accidents on I-20. Once the link was added to the external links section, but typically it is inserted as a reference even though it is clearly not an RS nor does it reference the content of the article.
• Diffs:
  • [[Special:Diff/1142971753 March 5, 2023], 37.111.245.208
  • [[Special:Diff/1140262032 February 19, 2023], 37.111.244.118
  • February 19, 2023, 37.111.246.48
  • February 19, 2013, 37.111.246.48
  • February 17, 2023, 37.111.245.233
  • February 17, 2023, 37.111.243.86

Imzadi 1979 → 19:08, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

@Imzadi1979: Is the spam blacklist talk not a superior venue for this report? – dudhhr ^talk _contribs (he/they) 16:11, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Request moved there, thanks! Imzadi 1979 → 19:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Bad words to possibly add

"trann(y|ie)", "libtard": rarely seen in legitimate edits from new users. Requested previously but got no response. 137a (talk • edits) 18:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Also, is this still an issue?137a (talk • edits) 18:02, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

do you have diffs of those being used? Galobtter (talk) 22:32, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

"Libtard" seems to have dimished quite a lot recently. I suspect the hard of thinking have just moved on to calling everything they don't like "woke", a bit like 10-year-old kids in the early 2000s calling everything "gay". Black Kite (talk) 07:16, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I am struggling to find edits where these words are used, can you link some diffs @137a? - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:49, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Idea is not well explained No reply. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 23:17, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Reverting administrator filter

• Task: This filter would apply to all pages in all namespaces. It would be a tag only filter for non-confirmed users undoing edits by an administrator.
• Reason: This would help users who use edit filters to identify vandalism to find users reverting administrators edits. This will allow them to review the edit as it is probably problematic.
• Diffs: I couldn’t find any specific diffs, but this is a clear and obvious vandalism tag-only filter.

- 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 23:42, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't like this. Non-confirmed users can still get in perfectly reasonable disputes with administrators. Admins are trusted to perform administrative actions, but it's impossible to be perfect with editing content, even if someone is an administrator. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 00:02, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I agree with all the concerns you have raised, especially the part that administrators are fallible. In 95% of cases, you shouldn’t revert an administrators edits if you are not confirmed, and if you do this filter will only tag, so I don’t see a problem. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 00:13, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

It goes well beyond just content issues, +sysop does not immunize you from fat-fingered mistakes, I've reverted a number of sysops over the years and some even thanked me for it. If your looking for a reason though, tag filters have a cost in editor time and unless they are catching something that is otherwise slipping through, that editor time is going to be more efficiently used monitoring other things, or if they aren't monitored just push us closer to the condition limit for no reason.

I would need to see some clear examples of edits that this filter would catch but are not already being caught by other means before I'd consider supporting this. 74.73.224.126 (talk) 03:21, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

As others have pointed out, this is problematic in general. One specific case is where an administrator adds a message to a new user or IP's talk page, then the recipient notes and deletes it quite properly. Certes (talk) 14:22, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I tend to agree with those above, but mainly I wish to raise the meta point that the edit filter can't determine much about who is being reverted, except sometimes their username, and having a filter containing all 856 admin usernames is not reasonable. Technically, it's a non-starter. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 14:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

And this sort of thing already exists (or should exist) for anti-vandal scripts and tools. Having used Huggle when reviewing an edit the history does give different icon color to different user groups so that should be fine. I think we should also look at how ORES looks at those edits and maybe ORES will generally rate them as more problematic than others. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:41, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

 Request withdrawn per the concerns above. Great points everyone! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 20:19, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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Please review your content that is totally incorrect. 49.36.184.190 (talk) 12:17, 12 May 2023 (UTC)