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My name is on the blacklist for some reason Matithegamer (talk) 14:22, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
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# Stop repeated creations of G1 word salads .*mixing.*sailors.* # See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?prefix=draft%3Amixing+sailors&title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1
Append this section with
.*rooster.*inversions.* # See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Gsthae_with_tempo!
Looks like Gsthae with tempo! is repeatedly using this title to create patent nonsense pages now - I think it would be a good idea to blacklist titles that consist of some combination of "rooster inversions".
-- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 14:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
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Add the .webp file extension to # Prevent accidental creation of files with double extensions or unconventional spacing
Jonteemil (talk) 19:42, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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I'll preface this by saying that I don't know if this, WP:EFR, or nowhere is the most appropriate venue for this. There appears to have been a recent TikTok trend involving a fictional 1980s horror movie named Zepotha. I am not entirely sure of the story behind it, but it seems like a user publicized the idea of spreading this nonexistent movie to promote their music. Since then, many IPs, new accounts, and in one case I have seen, an autoconfirmed account have created and edited hoax drafts (and userpages/project pages/mainspace articles). By my count, pages have been G3'd (or similar) at least 13 times in the past 24 hours. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Zepotha for some examples, but there are several more.
Given the fairly consistent disruption recently, this might be a candidate for title blacklisting. I am assuming the trend will be relatively short-lived (although who knows). A few of the pages have been salted, but obviously that is not an great option since people just keep creating differently titled pages. Blocks are also not an option since the disruption is distributed across multiple accounts and IPs who, for the most part, don't seem to be socks.
Note that if someone does go ahead with this, there have been some cases of (probably intentional) misspellings like Draft:Zapotha, so that might need to be accounted for to try to mitigate circumvention. —PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 16:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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A recently added entry regarding NCircle Entertainment, a non-notable home video distributor, is overly broad — as currently written, it covers any word containing the letter n or N that precedes the word circle, e.g. Netcong Circle. I'd suggest changing the entry to .*N[\s-]?[Cc]ircle.* <casesensitive>
to prevent only new articles about NCircle. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
.*[E|e]ntertainment.*
but then it seemed overly specific. The entry was meant to catch a UPE case that was repeatedly recreating NCircle Entertainment as well as multiple drafts and userspace pages with the same title (sometimes with a numeral in parenthesis, like how Windows renames duplicate files), so salting was not going to go far enough. Please adjust as you see fit, or if this can't be refined enough to be useful then I'll try salting some of the pages instead. Thanks again. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:45, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
.*\bn\W*circle.*
(case-insensitive again) if I was blacklisting this de novo, but it wasn't worth bikeshedding LaundryPizza03's version while we were still blacklisting so many false positives. —Cryptic 15:38, 22 August 2023 (UTC)I would suggest adding:
.*(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[\x{200C}\x{200D}]).* # Zero-width (non)joiner with Latin letter
Or, equivalently, if for some reason lookahead (?= ) doesn't work:
.*[A-Za-z].*[\x{200C}\x{200D}].*
.*[\x{200C}\x{200D}].*[A-Za-z].*
The characters zero-width non-joiner (200C ~ %E2%80%8C) and zero-width joiner (200D ~ %E2%80%8D) are generally invisible, which is potentially problematic. For example, recently Giancarlo DiTrapano was at Giancarlo DiTrapano (Giancarlo DiTrapano%E2%80%8D).
However, these two characters have legitimate use in redirects from emojis and words in non-Latin scripts, including these redirects that have one or the other, which is why I am limiting this to titles that also have Latin letters. SilverLocust 💬 07:44, 26 August 2023 (UTC); revised 05:48, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
For some reason WikipediaDoesNotAllowSnakeCase is not allowed as a username. 73.69.254.249 (talk) 17:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
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Please blacklist:
WP:COATRACK for WP:BFDI, already blacklisted. Thanks 118.149.80.96 (talk) 22:30, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
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Per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 August 1#Category:Honorary citizens. Long story short: categories about honorary citizens have been created and deleted and created again and deleted again etc. since 2007, while there is a very strong consensus that these categories are en:WP:NONDEFINING and en:WP:OCAWARD. I think salting it would save Wikipedians a lot of time and energy in the future instead of having to track this down and rehash the same deletion discussions over and over we've been having for over 16 years, but always ended with the same result: deletion. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 08:42, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Category:.*honorary citizens.*
, preferable with a custom error message explaining the problem, but I'm undecided as to whether it is actually necessary and would prefer an admin other than me make that call. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:27, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
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Add the <antispoof>
attribute to .*[D|d]om.*[P|p]ewee.*
as per the recent creation of DDP DJ Dominic Pewe€ (DJ D P) this page via a sockpuppet. Deauthorized. (talk) 03:13, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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Please remove (?!(?:Talk:|(?:User|Wikipedia|File|MediaWiki|Template|Help|Category|Portal|Draft|TimedText|Module) talk:)).*\/Print <noedit|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-print>
from the title blacklist.
It has been ten years since the potential security problems were discovered, and they ought to have been fixed by now. Also, certain non-print templates are also locked such as Template:HD/print. Book namespace was disabled and the default MediaWiki print service were disabled for security reasons. Awesome Aasim 23:49, 23 October 2023 (UTC)