Currently proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Requests#Personal image blocking script.

Several proposals have been made for "image filter" on Wikipedia (See Meta:Image filter referendum/en). Problems with these proposals are that the categories of content to be rated are arbitrary and not culturally neutral, and the process of rating means altering content pages, over which editors will disagree, leading to politically charged administrative decisions. (e.g. is a particular photo of a breastfeeding mother "sexual content") This page describes an alternative method to allow those offended to collaborate together to block the images they dislike, without affecting the rest of us or needing to decide on universally shared criteria. (previously proposed)

Basic functionality

Features and policies

  • To help with generating these lists, it would be handy to have a new parser function, ((#sort|duplicates=no)), which can be applied to such a page to spit out every single entry in an alphabetized list minus duplicates.
  • It might be nice to have a way to use wildcards in names. Though normally I'd expect someone would simply use a shorter search term, and the processing potentially required might be troublesome.
  • Note: apparently adding a ".js" suffix can do this now. It might be easy to extend this to the name I suggested; otherwise a .js suffix could be used. (i.e. the list would be kept at User:Wnt/image-blacklist.js, even though it is a text file)

Potential abuses

A controversial aspect, which I would not support, involves the possibility of protecting the /image-blacklist file against the user's wishes, for example, a parent controlling a child's account. I strongly oppose such extensions, which were not proposed in the 2011 image referendum, because (for among other reasons) a logged out user should be able to see everything, and shouldn't suffer some "default" personal blacklist, which would be contrary to the whole idea here. And a logged out user should remain able to sign up for an account and start editing Wikipedia without showing them a national ID card - in which case, you have no way to know that it isn't someone's child evading such a blacklist. The logical inference from this is that blacklists should not be subject to page protection, except the new feature suggested above where only the user can edit his own blacklist page. Wnt (talk) 17:32, 9 June 2012 (UTC)