MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

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

The title blacklist 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> 
[Bb]ar #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 article
• casesensitive — don't ignore case when checking title for being blacklisted
• 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 and template editors can override this list on all actions. Account creators can override this list on account creations only.

Blacklist name

We need to have the name Davide Anselmi protected in some format since there are attempts by various socks to get his article recreated. See this, this, and this for the rationale. I'd also recommend protecting against creation of Toward the Tower. It looks like they're used to getting around the title salts, so blacklisting these as titles would be helpful. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:50, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Kean Rabuyo

Please consider adding .*[Kk]ean\s*[Rr]abuyo.* to the blacklist. Several socks of TV5Ozamiz are making attempts to recreate the article (possibly an autobiography) under various titles with parenthetical disambiguation; see [1], [2], and [3]. Sixth of March 07:05, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Jodense Valenciano

Requesting for the addition of .*jodense.*valenci[ae]no.* to the blacklist. Articles with such title keep on being recreated by socks of Dakotaparty. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dakotaparty. Sixth of March 09:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Recent socks don't appear to be creating this title. Is it still being created? Nakon 00:45, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Nakon, it's being recreated by Searcher 0077 as "Jodense Valencieno" and "Jodense Sol Valenciano". Sixth of March 15:21, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

More Unicode blocking?

Yesterday I deleted Whаt should be the оff раgе SEO асtіvіtіеѕ for nеwѕ wеbѕіtе tо improve kеуwоrdѕ, which in a move typical of web spam, uses Unicode characters in order to get around various filters. There are likely more of these characters nearby. (Lodging this here as a reminder to look at this later.) MER-C 05:33, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Blacklist addition request

• Alexander Asiedu and Alex Asiedu have been deleted at least once under each name, and Draft:Alexander Asiedu has just been recreated for a second (or third) time. I'd like the string blacklisted, and here's the detail:

IIRC, this is a target of SPAs, so whether it's paid or not, I don't know, but we've had SPIs and COINs related to the subject before. As far as content goes, IIRC, the first draft was moved into mainspace after being declined and was deleted, it was recreated as Alex Asiedu and deleted, it was recreated as Alexander Asiedu, deleted as recreation of deleted content, requested to be userfied/put back into draft by an editor who then approved it to make a POINT (or BATTLEGROUND), and was AfDed again. I see now that the draft has been recreated with the same material that was deemed unacceptable previously, and declined once again. MSJapan (talk) 18:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Added MER-C 09:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Killed in

Does anyone know why "killed in" is on the blacklist? I'm asking in response to this request on my talk page. I can't imagine that pattern being so harmful, but more than that I'm genuinely curious. Thanks, -- Tavix ^(talk) 19:24, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

• There's a prolific sock who uses that term among others as part of their lulz... "Admins killed in Afghanistan", etc. You may have seen similar patterns already. Feel free to revert me if this is too beansy Crow^Caw 21:46, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 3 September 2016

Per this request at WP:EF/R, I believe an entry here would be more appropriate. Could the following be added to the blacklist?

.*(The)?\s?Decoded\s?Sex(e)?s.*

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 10:35, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Done. MER-C 10:57, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Cannot move own user subpage?

Hello, I don't seem to be able to move one of my own user subpages, why can't I? Not Invisible (talk) 00:09, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

@Not Invisible: What exactly did you attempt to do? MER-C 07:16, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Blacklist ZUUZUZ please (Junior5a harassing followup)

So, the person behind the Junior5a outing is now apparently harassing Zzuuzz by mispelling his name as "ZUUZUZ" into article names. I'm assuming "Zzuzz" is already on the blacklist, but I could be wrong. This is the followup to the repeated Junior5a outing and harassing that made me get "Junior5a" on the title blacklist. If you do add it, thanks. 96.237.27.252 (talk) 23:02, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

He is also bypassing it with "Jr5a" and "Ja" so block those (Though blocking "Ja" might cause collateral) 96.237.18.227 (talk) 00:49, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist/log date sorting...

As per WP:SORT#Forcing a column to have a particular data type, please update MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist/log/tableheader from:

<noinclude>{{pp-protected|small=yes}}</noinclude>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Mask!!Add time{{smd}}!!Expiry{{smd}}!!Add by!!Comment

to:

<noinclude>{{pp-protected|small=yes}}</noinclude>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Mask!!data-sort-type="isoDate"|Add time!!data-sort-type="isoDate"|Expiry!!Add by!!Comment

Of course based on MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist/log, the log is not being updated anymore anyway (so maybe it would be easier to just unprotect it and the included header; it should be noted those are protected but {{smd}} is not). Thank you. 50.53.1.33 (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

I've unprotected those pages, so go for it — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:07, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! 50.53.1.33 (talk) 02:18, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Blacklist addition request for spam (Sept. 20, 2016)

I request to block the titles Jeux Star, Jeux star and, just to be sure, JEUX STAR. My request is related to a massive spam added by SOCINCWORLD, on 11 wikis (all pages deleted and user warned on major WP). He is mainly using some little WP (in terms of active users and articles) to create pages in which spam this company (see for example cr:ᐘᑧᔸᓮᓯ or tw:Jeux Star). All the details of his activity are located here (meta): it's a request for a goblal lock. Anyway, also the jeuxstar's website should be blacklisted (I dunno if this is the right page). IMHO, adding to the blacklist this pages and the webiste, this massive spam should end immediatly, avoiding further sockpuppets that will have no tools to spam again. Regards. --Dэя-Бøяg 03:35, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 21 September 2016

Proposing to add this entry to the blacklist:

Gadget( definition)? talk:.*

Since the Gadget and Gadget definition namespaces are inactive and uneditable pending phab:T31272, it makes a lot of sense to lock their talk namespaces and keep them clean for now. I've occasionally had to G2 pages, or move them back. (If this is not strong enough, perhaps an edit filter may also work.) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 02:34, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Done. MER-C 02:53, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Letter prime?

When trying to move Sää´mođđâz to Sääʹmođđâz, the following error is shown: "Sää´mođđâz" cannot be moved to "Sääʹmođđâz", because the title "Sääʹmođđâz" is on the title blacklist. If you feel that this move is valid, please consider requesting the move first.

Why is this title blacklisted?

See the use of the modifier letter prime ʹ instead of symbol acute accent ´ in the introduction line of the article. The substitution of the prime by acute accent comes from a problem with keyboard input since the acute accent is commonly on keyboard layouts while letter prime isn’t, but typographically the letter prime is correct in Skolt Sami. --Moyogo/ (talk) 09:05, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Looks like the Unicode character prime was on the blacklist for move only. Page moved as asked. Consider WP:RMT to request uncontroversial moves. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 03:35, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Addition request

I propose .*(M|m)iss(.*| )?(S|s)upranational.* be added to the blacklist. For the reason why, see the "AFDs for this article" sidebar on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss Supranational (2nd nomination). KATMAKROFAN (talk) 23:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

At a rate since 2014 of 1 article a year, it appears, I think that a title blacklist would be overkill. The main article has been salted since 2014 anyway. Bencherlite^Talk 14:47, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Filthy Frank

I was wondering if we could blacklist any title that has the name "Filthy Frank" in it or maybe any article that uses that specific phrase? The reason for this is that there has been a fairly continuous campaign to get Filthy Frank a Wikipedia article outside of Harlem Shake (meme). He originated the meme, but it went far beyond him and he's gone through multiple AfDs that all ended with the consensus to delete the article. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Filthy Frank and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Miller (entertainer). We probably can't blacklist George Miller since the name is relatively common, but we can at least prevent someone from trying to get around the article saltings to create a new article.

I'd especially appreciate if we could keep someone from putting the name in another article because there has been a lot of vandalism at Chef (film), from people trying to add two of his videos to the article despite clear indication that they are not notable enough to be added. I've semi-protected the page, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone is working at getting autoconfirmed so they can re-add them, given that attempts to add him to Wikipedia in general have apparently been going on since 2014. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:31, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

@Tokyogirl79: It may also be worth protecting George Miller (Joji) after it gets deleted - that, or add something like .*?George.*?Miller\s?\(Joji\).*? to here -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 08:47, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

• I'm honestly tempted to start blocking people whose only edits are to try to recreate this article. This is pretty ridiculous. I don't think that this is sockpuppetry, rather just a group of nimrod YT viewers who are now deliberately trying to annoy us. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:54, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
• I blocked the guy who made that article. Given that he tried going around the salted titles and that the fandom seems to be fairly aware of the whole Wikipedia stuff, it's unlikely that he didn't know that doing that would be a bad idea and I'd wager that anyone else that doesn't reserve their FF edits to AfC would likely be equally aware. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:08, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
• I'm going to ping Rhododendrites just so he's aware of the request. I saw that he had to deal with one of the people at George Miller, which I've protected for three days. I found an attempt to add him into the article Killing of Harambe, which I've removed. I left a note on the talk page about this so that they can keep an eye out. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:20, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

• @Tokyogirl79: Agree with all the above - if there is significant disruption an edit filter may work, but the addition of (filthy|papa).*?frank(u)? is likely to prevent the majority of creations. Filthy Frank has a number of names -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 09:30, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

• There was also an addition at List_of_fictional_currencies#Television. He's mentioned at H3h3Productions, but that's actually somewhat relevant to him so I didn't remove that one. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the ping, but I don't think I really have anything to add here. I came across the first(?) AfD (this), then when it was redirected I saw someone restore his name to List of YouTubers via a different title, George Miller (entertainer). CSD declined so sent it back to AfD. Not familiar with other creations, though I did remove incoming links. I'm a little concerned about blacklisting (and don't know the range of technical options for blacklisting anything beyond specific article titles and external links), since it makes sense to mention him at the Harlem Shake article, and he's mentioned in the biographies of some other youtubers that are notable. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:32, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 15 October 2016

Please see Special:Permalink/744119097#Warning on double-extension file names for some background. Requesting that the blacklist prevent accidental creation of files with double extensions and other minor details involving extensions (such as File:Westworld-S01-E02-Chestnut.jpg.png)

1

Please sync to the revision dated 14:18, 15 October 2016 of MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist/sandbox (effective diff). updated

Examples of filenames that match are "File:Foo .jpg", "File:Foo,.png", "File:Foo.jpeg.svg", "File:Foo,pdf.gif", "File:Foo,tif .tiff", "File:Foo,jpg,.jpg". Extensions come from Special:Upload. I estimate about 12–15 uploads per month with this issue. Some instances: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 The entries would not have any effect on existing titles (folks could edit re-upload to these without a problem). I've tested and verified that the regexes work as expected at the testwiki.

2

The entries reference MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-file-extension for a custom error message. Requesting that it be created with the following, or something similar:

Extended content

It's [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist|not possible]] to upload a file with the name specified, likely because the filename incorrectly contains a double-extension, or what resembles two filename extensions, or there is unnecessary punctuation at the end of the filename. Please go back and remove the double extension. '''Examples of corrections:''' <!-- feel free to improve this list --> : [[File:Yes_check.svg|15px]] "File:Foobar.jpg.jpg" → "File:Foobar.jpg" : [[File:Yes_check.svg|15px]] "File:Foobar.jpeg.svg" → "File:Foobar.svg" : [[File:Yes_check.svg|15px]] "File:Foobar.jpeg.svg" → "File:Foobar.svg" : [[File:Yes_check.svg|15px]] "File:Foobar,.gif" → "File:Foobar.gif" : [[File:Yes_check.svg|15px]] "File:Foobar,pdf .tiff" → "File:Foobar.tiff"

Thanks, — Andy W. (talk) 04:21, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

I endorse this request as the better alternative to an edit filter. I would implement this myself but the title blacklist and what is appropriate for it is a bit outside my expertise, so I would like to get the okay from at least one other admin. Thank you! — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:00, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Looks good to me. MER-C 06:27, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:54, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Blacklist a number?

I was wondering if someone could blacklist this phone number: ８８９０３８８８１１. There's been somewhat of a rash of articles created with this number in an attempt to promote a psychic hotline. The person in question was originally blocked under one account, but came back under a new username. All in all they've created ８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer canada, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer UK, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer pune, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer gujarat, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer canada, and Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer kuwait. I haven't bothered salting any of them or checking to see if they're salted, since any salting would just likely result in them going for a new word combination and it'd likely be easier to just block anything that used this number. I think that it's likely that they'll be back at least once since they came back immediately after being blocked. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:24, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Interestingly there is already an entry for this phone number. However the spammer has found a way around it using fullwidth characters. I'll try to adjust it now. If this practice becomes more widespread someone may have to adjust all the entries. BethNaught (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Done. BethNaught (talk) 12:38, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Is there really a need for any page title to have a number with ten or more digits in it, obfuscated or not? This would catch essentially all phone numbers available to spammers. I can't see why any username should need such a long digit string in it, either. -- The Anome (talk) 12:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

@The Anome: As far as I know, there are no current such titles. I'd be inclined to add a autoconfirmed entry to disallow titles with long digit strings, yes. I wonder if an edit filter would also work but we'd need to know if there is a legit reason to add such a digit in particular namespaces. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:36, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

• Just be creative with your regex, as they will adapt quickly... 1-800 would become l--8__o__o for example...

• See Special:Abusefilter/793. MER-C 02:01, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

• If that was to me, I can't... :( Crow^Caw 21:57, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

• Yep, that's a private edit filter. @MER-C: would be a titleblacklist filter for articles with ten or more digits in it be feasible, or are there issues (e.g false positives)? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

• That filter can debofuscate strings like "l--8__o__o". As for blocking strings of 10 digits: I don't know -- it's not something I can easily search for. The full-width numbers should have very little false positives though (but again, impossible to search for). MER-C 00:35, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

• Posted a question on WP:VPT. Help:Searching#Parameters indicates one can perform a regex search of page sources, but that is only useful for page content - maybe something for an edit filter to prevent people from adding phone numbers to pages if such a thing is wanted, a question for Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested rather than here, though. JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 09:33, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘(([0-9]|[oi\!]).*){10} should match any title with 10 digits in it (or common substitutes, add as needed) regardless of what else is in the title. So would match "0xxx1xxxxx2xx xxx3x456xxx xx7xxx xx8x9", for example. It would also match 10 occurrences of the "other" characters... Crow^Caw 22:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

It would also match upwards of 116,000 existing article titles, such as Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese or Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. --Carnildo (talk) 01:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• Yep, rather dangerous in that form. Could be tweaked of course to lazy up the inter-character wildcard, and if applied to <autoconfirmed> for creation, should limit the disruption. The more open the regex becomes to catch the evil, the more good will get tied up, unfortunately. This may not be the best approach, I was just thinking out loud in response to the above questions. Crow^Caw 20:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

  My impression is that only continuous - or separated by hyphens or spaces - sequences of numbers/number lookalikes are a problem. JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 10:06, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

([\doi!]([ -_]{0,3})){7,10} should match: A digit or lookalike followed by between zero and 3 of space, hyphen, or underscore (to catch "1 - 2 _ 3...), repeated between 7 and 10 times. That returns "only" 909 existing titles (only a small number are in mainspace and some of which are not likely redirect titles, such as Gooooooooogle, so again, setting <autoconfirmed> should minimize legit disruption. Crow^Caw 18:05, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Davide Anselmi

I would like to have the name Davide Anselmi and Anselmi Davide added to the title/word blacklist. Long story short, there's some sockpuppetry surrounding this and the guy's basic MO is to try to create pages that claim some pretty easily disproven stuff. The guy claims to have had Stephen Sondheim (who is known for his musical career) as a cinematographer on a film that gained zero coverage. Lately he's been trying to attach himself to various films, like claiming that he worked on the sound for the Maze Runner series, which again, didn't happen. The socks have been mildly creative with the various names, which have run the range from Davide Anselmi, Anselmi Davide, Davide Anselmi (composer), Davide Anselmi (composer), and Anselmi Davide (Drummer). Hopefully making it so he can't create an article will help deter him. If there's a way to prevent him from putting his name on Wikipedia at all, that might be good as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

• .*((david[e]*.*?anselmi)|(anselmi.*?david[e]*)).* should do the trick, at least until he starts adapting, then its easy enough to add more conditions. Crow^Caw 21:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 19 November 2016

Please add .*wo(o)?mo(o).* to assist in preventing ongoing disruption - this was originally requested as a filter here

-- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:33, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done - I recognize this LTA, so I know what's going on... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:42, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

@Oshwah: Just realised when I removed the inc. that I removed a ? - please can you change the regex to .*wo(o)?mo(o)?.* -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 21:45, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the heads up :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:50, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 21 November 2016

Please add .*dead.?rat(s)?.* to prevent username & article creations per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/The_Suix#20_November_2016_2 and Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested#Suix.2FWoomoo.2FDead_rats -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 09:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Usernames need to be handled at meta:Talk:Title blacklist, the local ones don't affect them. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:15, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The more you know! Cheers Jo-Jo Eumerus - does this mean it's a lot less likely it'd get approved as it's not cross-wiki? -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:21, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't work over there so I have no idea whether it will be approved or not. Probably best to ask there, and if no we can locally blacklist just for the title (the global blacklist disallows both usernames and titles). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:23, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Cheers - requested at Meta. Marking this as answered, thanks for your help -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 16:29, 21 November 2016 (UTC)