MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

Welcome to the title blacklist noticeboard

The following instructions were copied from mw:Extension:Title Blacklist.

The disallowed titles list is maintained as a system message MediaWiki:Titleblacklist.

This page consists of regular expressions, each on a separate line. For example:

Foo <autoconfirmed|noedit|errmsg=blacklisted-testpage> 
Bar #No one should create article about it

There is no need to use "^" at the beginning and "$" at the end; these are added automatically.

Each entry may also contain optional attributes, enclosed in <> and divided by |

• autoconfirmed — only non-autoconfirmed users are unable to create/upload/move such pages
• noedit — users are also unable to edit this page
• casesensitive — don't ignore case when checking title for being disallowed
• errmsg — the name of the message that should be displayed instead of standard

When the action is blocked, one of the following messages is displayed together with the filter row (as $1): titleblacklist-forbidden-edit, titleblacklist-forbidden-move, titleblacklist-forbidden-new-account or titleblacklist-forbidden-upload. Generic filenames have their own custom error message, MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-imagename.

There is also MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist and a global title blacklist.

Only administrators, page movers and template editors can override this list on all actions. When they override this list when creating or editing a page, MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-warning is displayed. Account creators can override this list on account creations only.

The disallowed usernames list is handled at meta:Title blacklist by adding entries with the <newaccountonly> parameter.

Edit request 30 September 2024

Description of suggested change: The first two entries in the "excessive punctuation and repetition" section look like they're trying to use lookahead assertions, but they use incorrect syntax; lookahead assertions should use equals signs where these rules use less-than signs. However, it's not really necessary to use lookahead assertions here anyway, so we should just replace these malformed lookahead assertions with strings of exclamation marks.

Diff:

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.*[!?‽¿]{3}(?<!!!!).* .*[!?‽¿]{2}(?<!!!).* <moveonly>

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.*[!?‽¿]{3}!!!!.* .*[!?‽¿]{2}!!!.* <moveonly>

TTWIDEE (talk) 19:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

No, they don't look like they're trying to use lookahead assertions. They look like - and are - negative lookbehind assertions. [!?‽¿]{3}(?<!!!!) matches any sequence of three !, ?, ‽, or ¿ characters in a row except three of ! - for example, Foo??? and Foo?!! and Foo?!‽ are all matched, but Foo!!! deliberately is not. It's not immediately obvious why that behavior is intended, but it clearly is; and your patterns would for example forbid Foo‽‽!!!!! but not Foo!!!!!‽‽, which is nonsensical. The move-only pattern works the same for sequences of two or more. —Cryptic 20:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

There are legitimate articles titled with three exclamation marks in a row like No, Thank You!!!. That's probably why it wants to exclude that specifically. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Here's the diff deliberately allowing !!!. —Cryptic 20:13, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

My bad, for some reason I didn't read the first exclamation mark in each bracket as part of the assertion syntax—I read it as part of the assertion text itself. TTWIDEE (talk) 10:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 9 October 2024

Combine these two rules: .*on hueels.*
.*onhueels.*
That is, replace them with this: .*on ?hueels.*
TTWIDEE (talk) 18:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Error message for accidental creation of WikiProjects in article space

The rule WikiProject:.* doesn't specify a custom error message, so it will just use the default error message. How about we create a more helpful error message with text like 'You cannot create WikiProject:Foo—creation of pages with titles starting with "WikiProject:" is forbidden because WikiProjects are meant to go in the Wikipedia namespace. Please create the new WikiProject at Wikipedia:WikiProject Foo instead.'? TTWIDEE (talk) 20:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 29 October 2024

Please add .*blake.*alma.* per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blake Alma (numismatist) (2nd nomination). Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:13, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Done. (How did this take eleven years to blacklist?) —Cryptic 05:56, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Unblack list Request

Hey, I was creating a list of articles today and found that the title Neeraj Singh Lodhi is blacklisted from being created. Could someone remove the blacklist so I can create the article or move my draft from User:GrabUp/sandbox/article to that title? GrabUp - Talk 07:20, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Un-Blacklist Request

I tried to create a new article today called Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today and found that it is on the title blacklist. I have the article ready to go in my Sandbox. Please remove this title from the blacklist. Also, can you help me understand how this happened?JohnKent (talk) 17:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Use a standard apostrophe rather than a curly quote. Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:20, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 17 November 2024

Let's replace .* shitt?ing in .*'?s? mouth with .* shitt?ing in .* mouth—'?s? is redundant with .*. TTWIDEE (talk) 19:24, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I wonder whether this rule needs to be here at all - it sounds like something one specific vandal wrote once and they're long gone. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:47, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Diff. We won't be getting any answers out of the admin who added it, and the pages must've been oversighted (surprise!) since there's no matches in the deletion or move logs for the preceding year. —Cryptic 20:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

That inspired me to dig deeper. And I found phab:T380322, which I realized was a security vulnerability, but didn't get me anywhere closer to the goal.

Then I looked at their logged actions at the time and found a pretty interesting picture. And, well, I found the intended target there.

Doesn't change my opinion that the rule is targeting a long-gone vandal and so not that useful. But also harmless, I guess. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:48, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 19 November 2024

Let's remove .*\.\.\.\.H.* <moveonly>, because it's redundant with .*\.\.\.H.* <moveonly>. TTWIDEE (talk) 10:01, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:30, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery It seems like you've removed the one with three dots rather than the one with four dots by mistake, so you've actually unblocked some page moves that were previously blocked. TTWIDEE (talk) 19:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Hardly matters, but I've fixed it now. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:24, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

This kind of illustrates why I haven't been actioning these requests - it works as-is, the changes shouldn't have any effect, but making any sort of change might break it. —Cryptic 20:07, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Edit request 1 December 2024

Description of suggested change: Since the title Wikipaedo has been repeatedly recreated and deleted per WP:G10, then SALTed from creation, I think that we should make some changes to the Wikipedo regex to accommodate spellings from other varieties of English (such as paedo), as well as other ways it can be spelled, such as with the Æ ligature.

Diff:

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.*Wikipedo.*

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.*Wikip(a?e|æ)do.*

2604:3D08:9476:BE00:3123:39E1:D5EF:AE5A (talk) 19:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done That one title was created once in 2010, and once a week ago. That's not enough for a title blacklist rule. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:35, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Zalgo text and popular object show names

Description of suggested changes:

• Add strings of five or more combining diacritics (I'd go down to three or four but some testing is needed due to the potential of false positives)
• Add the phrases "inanimate insanity", "object mayhem", "object overload", "brawl of the objects", "BOTO" and their obfuscations per WP:BFDI (object shows are verboten due to lack of notability)

Doctor Zoath (talk) 16:27, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Has the first actually been a problem? I'm only seeing four titles created, ever, with four or more consecutive combining diacritics (using the lists at combining character), and all four are now forbidden by other blacklist rules. —Cryptic 17:00, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

And hits for #2. Significant false positives for BOTO, even case-sensitive, but no opinion either way otherwise. —Cryptic 17:09, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

If we do add the other object show title strings to the blacklist (other than BOTO due to false positives), we should also add BFDI's 5th season The Power of Two ("the power of two", "the power of 2", "tpot", "tpo2", "bfdi:tpot", "bfdi:tpo2", and obfuscations), as well as the strings "jacknjellify", "animation ?epic", "adamation" (possible false positives?), and names for other object show creators (Adam Katz, Brian Koch, Justin Chapman, Satomi Hinatsu, and Samuel Thornbury/Sam Thornbury). Doctor Zoath (talk) 20:22, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

"power of 2" is far too broad. I'm not inclined to blacklist any of these preemptively, but others' opinions may differ. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:34, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

The zalgo text problem occassionaly results in Wikipedia edits getting RD3'd, as happened at Central African Republic in July 2024 (twice). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:47, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

This wouldn't do a thing to stop that; those were bad edits to page text, not creations of or moves to bad titles. —Cryptic 18:59, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Edit request

There is a long-term abuser who is repeatedly recreating Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Congestion pricing in New York City, Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Congestion pricing in New York City, and variants, under any number of capitalization combinations (see here for a sample of the titles the LTA has created). As a result, several of these titles have had to be create-protected.

Is there a way to prevent non-extended confirmed users from creating any page in the WP: or WT: namespace with the text "articles for deletion" and "congestion pricing in New York"? There is virtually no reason any user, in good faith, will need to request deletion of congestion pricing in New York City. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

We've just had an evasion attempt at Talk:congestion pricing in New York City/AFD, so I've just added a broader rule to stop any non-autoconfirmed user from creating any page containing "congestion pricing" and "new york city" in the title. Hopefully this won't lead to autoconfirmed gaming. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:44, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 25 January 2025

Can we simplify .*[Ll][Oo][Ll].*[Ww][Uu][Tt].* to .*lol.*wut.*? This title blacklist is case insensitive by default. 2604:3D08:9476:BE00:7142:26B6:EECD:E8D3 (talk) 02:01, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Edit request 26 January 2025 Addition of photo image of comedic actor Bob Newhart's gravesite to his Wikipedia page; unable to personally process the proper steps.

Description of suggested change:

Diff:

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ORIGINAL_TEXT

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CHANGED_TEXT

Theologianthespian (talk) 22:51, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

You are very lost. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:58, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

unblacklist request

Hi, i would like to get the word "object show" unblacklisted because this word has been unknownly blacklisted with "bfb", "bfdi", "battle for dream island", cary, micheal and others. I was trying to create my user page Threeobjectshow! (talk) 18:27, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

No. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

why not? Threeobjectshow! (talk) 18:37, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Because we aren't interested in letting more BFDI/object show/whatever nonsense in here. See WP:BFDI. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

And we're not going to risk harm to the encyclopedia so that we can accommodate your choice of username. Pick another. —Cryptic 19:05, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

(See WP:Changing username for how to change your username). * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:11, 28 January 2025 (UTC)