Talk:Title blacklist: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 14:47, 27 May 2024

The associated page is used by the TitleBlacklist MediaWiki extension, and lists strings of regular expressions that may not be used as page titles or usernames on any Wikimedia projects. Any Meta-Wiki administrator or steward can edit this blacklist.

For more information on what the title blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see Title blacklist/About.

Please post comments to the appropriate section below: Proposed additions, Proposed removals, or Troubleshooting and problems, read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. Also, please check back some time after submitting, there could be questions regarding your request. In addition to that, please sign your posts with ~~~~ after your comment.

Completed requests are archived, additions and removal are logged.

Translate this page

Projects

Information: List of all projects; Overviews; Reports; Wikimedia Embassy; Project portals; Country portals
Tools: Spam blacklist; Title blacklist; Email blacklist; Rename blacklist; Closure of wikis; Interwiki map
Requests: Permissions; Bot flags; New languages; New projects; Username changes; Translations; Speedy deletions

[edit]

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} after 1 day and sections whose most recent comment is older than 30 days.

snippet for logging: {{tbl-log|26839542#{{subst:anchorencode:SectionNameHere}}}}

Proposed additions[edit]

Latest comment: 11 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion

This section is for proposing that a page title be blacklisted; add new entries at the bottom of the section. Provide links demonstrating widespread creation by multiple users or IP's. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived.

Proposed usernames can be checked at toollabs:meta/gusersearch/
Proposed Pagetitles can be checked at toollabs:global-search

"Transphobic"[edit]

.*transphobic.*       <newaccountonly|antispoof>

Came across this in some filter logs, and decided to take a look through gUser (see here. This type of username has been used 3 times in the same day to create justifications for discrimination, as well as a few incidents with the lowercase of "transphobic" instead of "Transphobic". This being part of a username seems..unhelpful? Disruptive? Intentionally provocative? EggRoll97 (talk) 01:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

"Nate Higgers"[edit]

.*nate.*higger.*		<newaccountonly|antispoof>

or

.*nate.*higger.*		<newaccountonly>

I omitted the "s" on purpose, as at least one account seemed to omit it. There seem to be 50 accounts matching this regex, with one created every couple of months (the most recent one being Special:CentralAuth/NateHiggers69420666, which prompted me to come here). It's not very common, but false positives are sufficiently unlikely that I would suggest blacklisting it anyways. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not sure antispoof is really necessary here, but a but of gUser search suggests this might be useful. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

You may well be right, I don't know the tradeoffs re enabling antispoof for these entries. Feel free to implement without antispoof and I can come back if I notice someone trying to get around it in a way antispoof can detect. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:35, 25 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

┌──────┘
Unarchived; I just saw another one of these. No need for antispoof if you don't think it's needed. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 27 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Proposed removals[edit]

This section is for proposing that a title be unlisted; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to provide the specific title or regex blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and archived. The addition or removal of a title is not a vote, please do not bold the first words in statements.

Troubleshooting and problems[edit]

This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted title. This is not the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see Proposed removals above).

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{autotranslate|base=Title blacklist header}}{{autotranslate|base=Projects}}
-{{process header
+{{Autoarchive resolved section | age = 1 | archive = '((FULLPAGENAME))/Archives/((year))' | level = 3 | timeout = 30 }}
- | title    = Title blacklist
- | section  =
- | previous = &larr;[[WM:IRP|Requests and proposals]]
- | next     = [[/Archives|Archives]] ([[/Archives/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}|current]])&rarr;
- | shortcut = [[WM:TBL]]
- | notes    = The associated page is used by the Mediawiki [[mw:Extension:Title Blacklist|Title Blacklist extension]], and lists strings of text that may not be used as page titles for any Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis). Any meta [[administrator]] can edit the title blacklist.
-For more information on what the title blacklist is for, and the processes used here, please see [[Title blacklist/About]].
-Please post comments to the appropriate section below: ''[[#Proposed_additions|Proposed additions]]'', '''[[#Proposed_removals|Proposed removals]]''', or ''[[#Troubleshooting_and_problems|Troubleshooting and problems]]'', read the messageboxes at the top of each section for an explanation. Also, please check back some time after submitting, there could be questions regarding your request. In addition to that, please '''sign your posts''' with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> after your comment.
-Completed requests are [[/Archives|archived]], additions and removal are [[Title blacklist/Log|logged]].
-}}
-{{Projects}}
 <small style="color:gray;" id="oldid" class="plainlinks">snippet for [[Title blacklist/Log|logging]]: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>tbl-log|{{REVISIONID}}#<nowiki>{{subst:anchorencode:SectionNameHere}}}}</nowiki></small>
 [[Category:Title blacklist|{{PAGENAME}}]]
+__NONEWSECTIONLINK__ <!-- Don't remove this [[mw:help:Magic words#Behavior switches|magic word]] to add new topic, instead -->
-==Proposed additions==
+== Proposed additions ==
-{{messagebox
+{{messagebox|box-width=80%
 |text=This section is for proposing that a page title be blacklisted; add new entries at the ''bottom'' of the section. '''Provide links demonstrating widespread creation by multiple users or IP's.''' Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and [[/Archives|archived]].
+* Proposed usernames can be checked at [[toollabs:meta/gusersearch/]]
+* Proposed Pagetitles can be checked at  [[toollabs:global-search]]
 }}
+=== "Transphobic" ===
+<pre>.*transphobic.*       <newaccountonly|antispoof></pre>
-=== Other Users ===
-Please add H. Krichel and substitute the vowels in Harald Krichel with wildcards. [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=globalauth&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=] --[[User:Seewolf|Harald Krichel]] 09:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
-:Hi!
-:I can only see one  misuse [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20090826030619&type=globalauth&month=&year= there]. maybe some names have been deleted. could you give some examples of those names? -- [[User:Lustiger seth|seth]] 22:23, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
-:: Some of that names appeared on eswiki too and are in [[:es:Special:Log/suppress]]. <small>— [[User talk:Dferg|df&#124;&nbsp;]]</small> 08:48, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
+Came across this in some filter logs, and decided to take a look through gUser (see [https://meta.toolforge.org/gusersearch/?name=%25Transphobic%25&show_locked=on here]. This type of username has been used 3 times in the same day to create justifications for discrimination, as well as a few incidents with the lowercase of "transphobic" instead of "Transphobic". This being part of a username seems..unhelpful? Disruptive? Intentionally provocative? [[User:EggRoll97|EggRoll97]] ([[User talk:EggRoll97|talk]]) 01:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
-Also "Krichel * Harald" with wildcards. --[[User:Seewolf|Harald Krichel]] 09:01, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
+=== "Nate Higgers" ===
-:please don't give long lists where we have to look for those names by ourselves. please provide ''examples'', so that we can build an adequate regexp. -- [[User:Lustiger seth|seth]] 20:17, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
+<pre>.*nate.*higger.*		<newaccountonly|antispoof></pre>
+or
+<pre>.*nate.*higger.*		<newaccountonly></pre>
+I omitted the "s" on purpose, as at least one account seemed to omit it. There seem to be 50 accounts matching this regex, with one created every couple of months (the most recent one being [[Special:CentralAuth/NateHiggers69420666]], which prompted me to come here). It's not very common, but false positives are sufficiently unlikely that I would suggest blacklisting it anyways. —&#8205;[[User:Mdaniels5757|Mdaniels5757]] ([[User talk:Mdaniels5757|talk]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Mdaniels5757|contribs]]) 18:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
+: Not sure antispoof is really necessary here, but a but of gUser search suggests this might be useful. <span style="display:inline-block;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom;line-height:0.5em;">~~<nowiki/>~~<br/><span style="font-size:0.7em;">[[User:1234qwer1234qwer4]] ([[User talk:1234qwer1234qwer4|talk]])</span></span> 00:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
+::You may well be right, I don't know the tradeoffs re enabling antispoof for these entries. Feel free to implement without antispoof and I can come back if I notice someone trying to get around it in a way antispoof can detect. —&#8205;[[User:Mdaniels5757|Mdaniels5757]] ([[User talk:Mdaniels5757|talk]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Mdaniels5757|contribs]]) 00:35, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
+{{od|::}}Unarchived; I just saw another one of these. No need for antispoof if you don't think it's needed. —&#8205;[[User:Mdaniels5757|Mdaniels5757]] ([[User talk:Mdaniels5757|talk]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Mdaniels5757|contribs]]) 14:47, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 ==Proposed removals==
@@ Line 36: / Line 32: @@
  |text=This section is for proposing that a title be ''un''listed; '''please add new entries at the ''bottom'' of the section'''. Remember to provide the specific title or regex blacklisted, links to the articles they are used in or useful to, and arguments in favour of unlisting. Completed requests will be marked as done or denied and [[/Archives|archived]]. The addition or removal of a title is '''not a vote''', please do not bold the first words in statements.
 }}
+== Troubleshooting and problems ==
-=== several entries ===
-Hi!<br />
-There are several blockings which are not necessary (for example) in de-wiki. Perhaps de-wiki is not the only wiki where some of the English entries are obstructive.
-* /fu[c(k]k/: There is even a town called [[:de:Fucking]]. It's inhabitants are called "Fuckinger". If you have a look at a german telephone book[http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/], you will see, that there live some people called "fucker". and "muckefuck" is something like bad coffee.
-* /orgasm/: I could not find a reason for blocking this.
-* /bitch/: Couldn't this be more precised e.g. like /\ba bitch\b/?
-* /[ck(]unt/: This forbids harmless names like "kunterbunt"
-* /AIDS/: this should be case-sensitive.
-Of course, for some of those requests I could use the german whitelist. But I guess, it is better to try centralizing the stuff concerning user names, because of SUL. -- [[User:Lustiger seth|seth]] 22:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
-:Added casesensitive to the aids one and jews did. For the rest, I see no issues. These are account names. &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;<b style="color:#309;">[[User:Mike.lifeguard|Mike]].[[User talk:Mike.lifeguard|lifeguard]]</b>&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;<sup>[[:b:en:User talk:Mike.lifeguard|<span style="color:#309;">@en.wb</span>]]</sup> 20:23, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
-::Account names don't need to be real names. It's not uncommon to use names like "shadow", "mud", ... in english. a name like "kunterbunt" or "muckefuck" would not be very strange user names in germany either. -- [[User:Lustiger seth|seth]] 11:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
-=== "jimbo" ===
-'''Regex:''' .*j[iu]m(?:bo|my)( wh?ales)?.* <newaccountonly> <br/>
-I am an ACC developer and a user from En Wikipedia. At ACC we help people with accessibility and blacklist issues obtain accounts by request. It has come to my attention that the regex mentioned above is stopping users from making accounts with the word "Jimbo" in them. Whilst we all know that Jimbo Wales is the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, I and several others feel that Jimbo is a common nick & in some cases first name and that by itself does not warrant blacklisting and doing so would be just as bad as blacklisting "larry" (which thank god it's not). I also feel that anyone who may be interested in contacting Jimbo Wales will be well within their ability to tell Jimbo Wales from any other jimbo. [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] 13:51, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
-:I don't really know what you want done here. Can you be more specific? --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] 00:04, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
-::Hi!
-::The regexp <code>/.*j[iu]m(?:bo|my)( wh?ales)?.*/</code> is equivalent to <code>/.*j[iu]m(?:bo|my).*/</code>. That means that every "jimbo", every "jumbo", every "jimmy" and every "jummy" is forbidden. I agree with Promethean that this regexp should be removed or at least modified, e.g., by using
-::<code>/.*j[iu]m(?:bo|my) ?wh?ales.*/</code>
-::I'll do that. -- [[User:Lustiger seth|seth]] 18:38, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
-===.*everett.*===
-.*Everett.* <autoconfirmed>
-Stale entry, probably not necessary anymore. –<font face="Verdana">[[User:Xeno|<font color="black">'''xeno'''</font>]] ([[User talk:Xeno|<font color="black">talk</font>]])</font> 19:40, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
-==Troubleshooting and problems==
 {{messagebox
  |text=This section is for comments related to problems with the blacklist (such as incorrect syntax or entries not being blocked), or problems saving a page because of a blacklisted title. This is ''not'' the section to request that an entry be unlisted (see '''Proposed removals''' above).
 }}
-===Grawp===
-an accent needed to be added to the Title blacklist
-the entry listed here:
-.*[GĜĞĠĢƓǤǦǴḠ].*[RŔŖŘȐȒṘṚṜṞ®].*[AǼAÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄǍǞǠǺȀȂȦḀẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶÆ4@].*[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩].*[PƤṔṖǷ₧ÞþΡρРр].* <newaccountonly>
-.*[GĜĞĠĢƓǤǦǴḠ].*[RŔŖŘȐȒṘṚṜṞ®].*[AǼAÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄǍǞǠǺȀȂȦḀẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶÆ4@].*VV.*[PƤṔṖǷ₧ÞþΡρРр].* <newaccountonly>
-needed to be changed to this:
-.*[GⒼĜĞĠĢƓǤǦǴḠ].*[RŔⓇŖŘȐȒṘṚṜṞ®].*[AǼAÀⒶÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄǍǞǠǺȀȂȦḀẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶÆ4@].*[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩].*[PƤṔṖǷ₧ÞþΡρРр].* <newaccountonly>
-.*[ⒼGĜĞĠĢƓǤǦǴḠ].*[RŔŖⓇŘȐȒṘṚṜṞ®].*[AǼⒶAÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄǍǞǠǺȀȂȦḀẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶÆ4@].*VV.*[PƤṔṖǷ₧ÞþΡρРр].* <newaccountonly>
-because any letter or accent that makes the word "Grawp" should be blacklisted [[Special:Contributions/76.183.4.175|76.183.4.175]] 03:45, 11 April 2009 (UTC)