MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

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

Editing the 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

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

Also, you shouldn't add "^" at the beginning of the entry and "$" at the end. They will be added automatically — VasilievVV (talk) 10:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

HAGGER

Why have you blocked all page creations containing HAGGER? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a common vandal meme -- if you're familiar with "Willy on Wheels"-style pagemove vandalism, the HAGGER?!?!?!??!?! vandal(s) often take a similar approach. As I understand, the title blacklist was partially created specifically to try and deal with these sorts of things. – Luna Santin (talk) 12:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Isn't this going to cause a problem if people try and create articles about notable people with the last name "Hagger"? Such as Nicholas Hagger, David Osborne Hagger, Lloyd Hagger, and Kim Hagger? All of which turned up after a quick search. Even if it is a troll-meme, all the trolls have to do is change one letter and they can get around it. Where as someone who has a valid reason for creating the hypothetical article ?????? Hagger can't reasonably be expected to change the subjects name just to get around the blacklist. Or is the blacklist case-sensitive?--69.118.143.107 (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The section above contains the instruction about making an entry case-sensitive. Some admin should add a <casesensitive> after .*HAGGER.*. — Kalan ? 17:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

 Done EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

All-uppercase entry

I think that we should only allow autoconfirmed users to create pages in which all the letters are uppercase. There are probably few cases where such pages are needed, except for abbreviations which already have articles. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. There's still plenty of abbreviations that don't have pages. Also, most of such page creations will be honest errors of well-meaning people. Such attempts should be welcomed and then corrected (or the other way around), not stopped in their tracks. Finally, autoconfirmed blocking of page creation is still impossible, if I understand correctly. - Andre Engels (talk) 19:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)