Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested

Requested edit filters
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Disallow ranges of IPs who are adding unsourced bloats to Argentine demographics

• Task: Disallow edits from particular IP ranges changing demographics of immigrants in Argentina (and hopefully, later expandable to other Latin American countries that they target). The list of ranges are in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1167#Unsourced bloat on Argentine demographics. These IP ranges are shared with other editors, but most if not all changes on numbers about Argentina are the same kind of bloats.
• Reason: To stop the persistent unsourced bloats/hoaxes on demographics of Argentines etc., which appear to come from the same editors hopping around.
• Diffs: Patterns per article title:
  • Titles containing "Argentines" or "Argentina": diff.
  • Titles containing "diaspora": diff.
  • Other articles under the Category:Ethnic groups tree: diff in Belarusians.
  • More examples are in the ANI topic linked above.

While investigating this case, I noticed some of their edits were caught by an edit filter eg. [1], [2], [3], [4]. I wonder if that filter (or anything else) can be refined to more comprehensively prevent them, hence this request. --Wotheina (talk) 02:57, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Edit filter for copy-paste pagemoves

• Task: Prevent copying drafts into the article space. This would apply to all editors, and would target the article space.
• Reason: a very common entry in Category:Candidates for history merging these days is a page that was copy/pasted from the draft space, either because there is an existing redirect in the way or because the page was draftified and the creator (or someone else) likely does not know how to request a redirect be deleted (usually via {{db-move}} or WP:RM/TR).
• Diffs: Special:Diff/1248536996, Special:Diff/1249173005

I'll note that this sort of filter will not necessarily stop copy/paste pagemoves from the draft space where the article is a redlink (e.g. Special:Diff/1245946107 or Special:Diff/1249205898) but it will hopefully stop copy/pastes over redirect. Primefac (talk) 21:11, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this has to do with why no one is replying, but I tried looking at the diffs when you first added them and found it hard to understand what type of edit you are asking for a filter about... presumably because you merged the histories of the pages and that changed the diffs. From a general description it also sounds difficult to figure out how detecting for copy-paste moves would work, seeing as the filter only has context of what is (and was) on the one page being edited in the action it triggered on.

Is/was there something specific about these diffs that could be used to detect others like them? – 2804:F1...29:CE67 (talk) 00:20, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

It basically boils down to "someone overwrites a redirect with a large amount of text and there is a draft at the same title"; from what I have seen that is almost always a copy/paste pagemove that requires a histmerge. Primefac (talk) 11:46, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Preventing IPs from changing Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar

• Task: This filter prevents IPs from changing Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on related articles
• Reason: Consensus on the talk page of Aurangabad have concluded to use the Common Name over the Official Name. However, several IPs, often POV driven, have been changing this to the recent official name. This is also true for any related articles containing the name of the city. An edit filter would prevent this while still allowing constructive IPs to contribute.
• Diffs: The edit histories of Aurangabad District, Aurangabad (now protected for that reason), Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Bibi Ka Maqbara and other related pages show this to be a persistent issue.

SKAG123 (talk) 21:35, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Warn on inline image usage

• Task: When an edit adds an file link without "|(\s*)?frameless" or "|(\s*)?thumb" within it, warn the user and tell them they probably wanted to put a |thumb in. Still allow them to save the edit. Can also scan for every format supported if wanted.
• Reason: Prevent accidential and improper usage of images. I don't see a use case for inline image usage here.
• Diffs: The one before Special:Diff/1251723553: accidentally forcing browsers to load a 0.7GB image.

Aaron Liu (talk) 04:12, 19 October 2024 (UTC)