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Hello there. I'm fairly new to wikipedia editing and have been trying to make my user page, until I encountered a title blacklist problem. I've been trying to insert an image, with, of course, the template page thing to upload. Here is the information I had put in: Name: A white male posing in his room in the dark - July 4th 2021.jpg Whilst here is the name in my computer files: antoineledieu.jpg

Now what I'd like to know is the problem here, why can't I use this? Any help is appreciated

--RealDarkFunny (talk) 21:56, 28 September 2021 (UTC)RealDarkFunny[reply]

Please see commons:User talk:RealDarkFunny#Uploading images for response(s). — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 04:14, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ali Mansour

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Please blacklist *Ali*Mansour*. See recent history at Ali Mansour (actor) and Draft:Ali Mansour (actor). The socks will probably try to game the naming by changing his disambiguator. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:15, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see that Ali Mansour is a locked redirect to Ali Mansur, a prime minister. The blacklisting will not affect him. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I already did yesterday after I saw Explicit salt the most recent honeytrap. Just /.*ali.*mansour.*/, or even /.*\bali\b.*\bmansour\b.*/, matched an uncomfortable number of false positives in mainspace, like Rajab Ali Mansour, Hasan-ali Mansour, and Ali Mansour Alwan (nn, but unrelated to this person). —Cryptic 23:52, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I ma trying to upload ka pic with a good name but it's not getting upload DanishKhan22 (talk) 12:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I propose adding the following to the title blacklist for English Wikipedia:

   /el pol[ií]mata/i

This is pursuant to creation and deletion of many main space and draft space articles under numerous titles created by a succession of sockpuppet accounts intent on keeping alive an article on a Dominican rapper who goes by this name who has yet to be judged notable. (See the deletion discussion at en:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/El Polimata.) Sometimes several of these articles exist simultaneously, and disambiguating titles are used to get around titles that are already salted. The case history is at en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/El Menor Mc. Largoplazo (talk) 16:42, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done, slightly wider than proposed to match the attempt at Polimata (singer). —Cryptic 23:31, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1. Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic
all these scripts are variants for Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek, etc.
2. Devanagari, Arabic
both these scripts are variants of Kashmiri
3. Hiragana, Katakana, CJK Unified Ideographs
are all combined in Japanese.
4. CJK Unified Ideographs, Hangul
both these scripts are variants of Korean.

Faster than Thunder (talk) 01:18, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

((fper|answered=yes Following a TfD in September, it was decided to merge /meta/shortname, meta/color, meta/abbrev and meta/abbr templates (e.g. ((Labour Party (UK)/meta/color)), ((Democratic Party (United States)/meta/shortname))) into a module (which has been created at Module:Political party). This is now live and we want to stop people creating new meta templates, as they will not be used. Can new creations of templates including the above names be blocked by adding them to the blacklist? Cheers, Number 57 21:16, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Number 57: I've made a mockup of the message that should be shown when someone attempts to create one of these pages at Template:Titleblacklist-political-party-templates, this can be moved to the Mediawiki namespace. Then the following lines

# Political party templates, deprecated since September 2021
Template:.*\/meta\/(shortname|color|abbrev|abbr) <noedit|errmsg=titleblacklist-political-party-templates>

could be added to prevent these templates from being edited or created by non-template editors/admins (I think restricting editing of these templates also make sense as to avoid confusion since an edit here would not have the effect they're intending). You could implement these changes now but it might be prudent to wait for a regular at this talkpage to do it in case there's anything I missed here. Given that, I've opened an edit request to draw attention to it. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:39, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• How many of these have been erroneously created since the module change? Also, if these shouldn't be used - why are templates such as Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color still around? — xaosflux ^Talk 14:23, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ten were created in the last two days according to this.
  • The module that is replacing them has only just gone live; while most templates/infoboxes/modules that use the meta templates have been converted to use the new module instead, the templates are still used in some wikitables to create background colours for cells, and there needs to be a bot run to replace them all before they can be deleted. Cheers, Number 57 14:55, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Number 57: what is the editing workflow that is driving people to create those today? (e.g. following a red link, using a preload, just habit). — xaosflux ^Talk 15:00, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • They are created mainly to display party names/colours in infoboxes and tables, so will be created when a new infobox/table is created and a party included in the table does not already have meta templates or when a new party is created and has to be added to existing infoboxes/tables. Since the TfD, several hundred new meta templates have been created, so there is a very regular stream of them. Number 57 15:05, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Number 57: I wasn't really asking what they are for, but asking what is it that is causing editors to create these today - if that process is updated they should stop getting created - correct? If that process isn't updated, it needs to be - crashing editors in to a blacklist error message isn't ideal UX. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
          • I'm guessing it's habit – this is the way it's always been done. The problem is that while most are created by a core group of editors who can be informed by leaving messages on their talk pages (which I did for the few created in the last couple of days), there is a large number of different editors who create them occasionally, with no real way of attracting their attention to this. If you create a meta template to use in a wikitable, it will still work (as it isn't dependent on a module/template that has been converted to not use them anymore), so editors who use them for that purpose will be able to continue doing so. Number 57 15:14, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Any more thoughts on this? The meta templates are still being created... Number 57 23:08, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• @DukeOfDelTaco: , you created Template:Republican Party (Louisiana)/meta/color - can you explain what workflow led you to create what seems to now be a useless page? Was it habit, or something that led you to it? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:57, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apologies, I wasn't aware of the change and I created the new meta page out of habit. I guess I should've known when I noticed the shortname template page was suddenly empty, but I didn't really know where to check. — DukeOfDelTaco (talk) 01:12, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • No worries, thank you for the feedback! — xaosflux ^Talk 03:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
•  Done — xaosflux ^Talk 03:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and hello, im new here in wiki and im inserting a picture File: Drawing.png but theres a backlist problem. How to fix it? Its for my user page.--Lil Moon Teddy (talk) 10:10, 5 December 2021 (UTC)Lil Moon Teddy (talk) 05:36, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Lil Moon Teddy: Try giving the image a longer and more descriptive name: something like "Drawing of ... by ... .png" is unlikely to hit the title blacklist. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:09, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Lil Moon Teddy (talk) 12:11, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Account login 103.217.158.201 (talk) 03:40, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See Special:CreateAccount - FlightTime (open channel) 04:07, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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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)[reply]

 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]