'((shortcut|WP:EF/R|WP:RAF|WP:AF/R)) ((Filternav)) [[Category:Wikipedia edit filter]] <!-- --> This page is for people without the abusefilter-modify permission or people without sufficient knowledge about the coding involved to make requests to enact Abuse filters. Please add a new section ''at the top'' of current requests using the following format: <pre> ===Filter name=== *'''Task''': What is the filter supposed to do? To what pages and editors does it apply? *'''Reason''': Why is the filter needed. - ~~~~ </pre> Bear the following in mind: * Filters are applied to ''all'' edits. Therefore, problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an abuse filter. * Each filter takes time to run, making editing (and to some extent other things) slightly slower. The time is only a few milliseconds per filter, but with enough filters that adds up. When the system is near its limit, adding a new filter may require removing another filter in order to keep the system within its limits. * There is a limit to what filters can check for. More complex, non-essential tasks, such as those that need to perform a more in-depth check of the page or fetch information that the filter system does not have access to, are better served by separate software, run by an individual user on their own machine or dedicated server such as the Toolserver, rather than those used to actually host Wikipedia. * It used to be called the '''abuse''' filter for a reason. Contributors are not expected to have read all 200+ policies, guidelines and style pages. Trivial formatting mistakes and edits that at first glance look fine but go against some obscure style guideline or arbitration ruling are not suitable candidates for an abuse filter -- quite apart from performance concerns, if it doesn't harm the project, it is best not to hassle new contributors because of it. * For prevention of creation of pages with certain names, [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] is usually a better way to handle the problem - see [[MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist]] for details. ((archives|search=yes)) ==Current requests== <!-- New Requests go below this line, at the top of this section --> ==Rebecca Black== *'''Task''': A number of now-deleted articles have been created concerning a non-notable singer, who might be a minor, named Rebecca Black. A lot of accounts have been involved, and there appears to be a 4chan element as well, with BLP problems. A simple filter should work, as the joke (if it's a joke) loses its point without the name. See the following deleted articles: [[Friday (Rebecca Black)]], [["rebecca black"]], [[Rebecca Black (Ark Music Factory)]], [[Rebecca Black]] and [[Rebecca black]]. '''<font face="Arial">[[User:Acroterion|<font color="black">Acroterion</font>]] _{<small>[[User talk:Acroterion|<font color="gray">(talk)</font>]]</small>}</font>''' 01:53, 15 March 2011 (UTC) ===XtremeGapYear=== *'''Task''': To disallow addition of spam link <tt>www.xtremegapyear.co.uk</tt> to article [[Gap year]]. If I understood the rules format correctly, the following filter should give a reasonable condition: *:<code>article_articleid == 620809 & user_age < 3600 & "xtremegapyear.co.uk" in added_links</code> *'''Reason''': Changing anons keep adding spam section to [[Gap year]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gap_year&diff=414555498&oldid=413804674][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gap_year&diff=415133679&oldid=414606156][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gap_year&diff=416193223&oldid=415222492][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gap_year&diff=416825012&oldid=416748500] &nbsp;--[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]] 10:02, 5 March 2011 (UTC) :You'll probably want to try the [[Wikipedia:spam blacklist|spam blacklist]] or page protection instead. As it says above, "problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an abuse filter." [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 20:34, 5 March 2011 (UTC) ===Creation of a new page containing a <nowiki>((hang on))</nowiki> template=== *'''Task''': If a new user attempts to create a page containing a <nowiki>((hang on))</nowiki> template, stop the attempt & inform the user about the proper procedure(s) to follow if he/she feels that an article that he/she had recently created was speedily deleted in error. *'''Reason''': Several new users have created such pages in response to seeing one or more of their articles speedily deleted. Such page creations only result in unnecessary work for new page patrollers and administrators. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 19:46, 1 March 2011 (UTC) === Ghostface Killah === *'''Task:''' Add regex to block "Ghostface Killah" or similar combinations or breakouts by IP editors. *'''Reason:''' Prolific IP-hopping editor, possibly blocked user ((userlinks|Grawp)), repeatedly editing multiple articles to add reference to these words. Not feasible to rangeblock IP addresses due to multiple /16 ranges in use. --[[User:N5iln|Alan the Roving Ambassador]] ([[User talk:N5iln|talk]]) 20:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC) :I made several rangeblocks. I recommend that we give the rangeblocks a chance first. He/she already has tried changing their MO with ((user|88.240.186.56)). Filter would probably be ineffective. <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px"><b><font color="#4682B4">[[User:Elockid|Elockid]]</font></b></span> ^{(<font color="#99BADD">[[User talk:Elockid|Talk]]</font>)} 21:42, 23 February 2011 (UTC) === |id= in filter 247 === *'''Task:''' Amend [[Special:AbuseFilter/247]] so that the check for an id parameter is insensitive to whitespace. *'''Reason:''' False positive as reported in [[Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports#Trevj]] The regex fragment at issue is "<code>(?<!\|[Ii][Dd]=)</code>". Currently it accepts <code>|id=</code>, but not <code>| id=</code>, <code>|id =</code>, or <code>| id =</code>, and the last of these resulted in a false positive. Apparently, adding \s* before and after [Ii][Dd] results in "Compilation failed: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length at offset 56". A [http://us.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.assertions.php lookbehind assertion] means "when preceded by" or "when not preceded by", but lookbehind assertions in PHP PCRE must have a fixed length. Is there an alternative to the lookbehind assertion to find these, so that the |id= match can be made insensitive to whitespace? Is there a specific reason that we're using a lookbehind assertion as opposed to a lookahead assertion followed by .*? Lookahead assertions have far less severe restrictions on length. --[[User:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]] ([[User talk:Damian Yerrick|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Damian Yerrick|stalk]]) 22:35, 19 February 2011 (UTC) === Example texts === * '''Task''': prevent addition of example texts of users playing with edit buttons. *'''Reason''': This is not nescesarily abuse, but I think it would be usefull to tag them. For example "Heading text" is present in many articles at this moment [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%22%3D%3DHeading+text%3D%3D%22]. *'''Details''': The Dutch wikipedia has this rule (translated) [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Filter/2] <nowiki>(article_namespace == 0) &</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>(contains_any(added_lines,</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"'''Bold text'''",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"''Italic text''",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"== Heading text ==",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"[[File:Example.jpg]]",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"[[Media:Eaxample.ogg]]",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here&lt;/nowiki>"</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>))</nowiki><br /> Additional lines could be:<br /> <nowiki>"* Bulleted list item",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"# Numbered list item",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>":Indented line",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"<big>Big text</big>",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"<small>Small text</small>",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"^{Superscript text}",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"_{Subscript text}",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"File:Example.jpg|Caption1",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"! Header text !! Header text !! Header text",</nowiki><br /> <nowiki>"| Example || Example || Example",</nowiki><br /> Germany has a [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Missbrauchsfilter/6 similar rule]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:HenkvD&diff=414820182&oldid=409365252 My edit] can be used as test. [[User:HenkvD|HenkvD]] ([[User talk:HenkvD|talk]]) 18:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC) : Just looked throuht the list of other request and found some similar request: [[#"File:Example.jpg" filter]] and [[#Default Text Editor Filter]], [[#Example file tagging]]. [[User:HenkvD|HenkvD]] ([[User talk:HenkvD|talk]]) 19:05, 19 February 2011 (UTC) :: There is an existing filter that's coded to do some of this, [[Special:AbuseFilter/18|Special:AbuseFilter/<s>107<s><u>18</u>]], but it's currently disabled. Perhaps one of the other edit filter managers can comment on why. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 18:16, 24 February 2011 (UTC) :::Are you sure that's the correct link? 107 is a very early filter that was used to stop people getting around the spam blacklist. We do have ((abf|18)), which does address the test type edits described above, but it has been disabled since 2009 because a lot of editors would make good edits and then accidentally click the toolbar in the same edit (even I've done that). Many of these people would then not save the edit because they were confused. As noted above, this seems to be a perennial request here (maybe even permensual), but it is not just me that's holding it back, it's just that not too many people watchlist or frequently edit this page. I wasn't even an edit filter manager when the filter was first disabled. <b>[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]</b> 18:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC) ::::D'oh! Yes, of course I meant 18. That's a heck of a typo. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 18:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC) :::::In the meantime, since I have a minute, I'll start to clean up the 121 "heading text" articles the OP linked to. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 18:50, 24 February 2011 (UTC) :::::: I started cleaning up, but noticed it is hardly monitored. I personally clicked on the buttons by mistake a couple of times. I think I catched them before saving, but I am not 100% sure. Am I correct that tagging them won't prevent users from saving these kind of edits? I hope that will make these kind of edits more visable and solved faster. [[User:HenkvD|HenkvD]] ([[User talk:HenkvD|talk]]) 10:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC) :::I just fixed most of the 121 examples HenkvD linked to in his request, and almost all of the "heading text" examples were edits that should not have been made even without the "heading text" insertion. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 16:10, 25 February 2011 (UTC) ::::I have added <nowiki>"== Heading text ==" and "<big>Big text</big>"</nowiki> to filter 18 (still disabled for now); most of the other ones were already in there. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 20:57, 25 February 2011 (UTC) *I think the "tag" feature was not available when the test filter was disabled. Re-enabling the filter, as a tag only, is a good option. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 11:08, 25 February 2011 (UTC) **It seems sensible to try that, but I've asked [[User:Ruslik0|Ruslik0]] for his opinion since he marked the filter as deleted. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 16:06, 25 February 2011 (UTC) *The tag feature was available from the beginning. This filter was disabled in November 2009 by [[User:Wknight94]] (you should ask them why). I only deleted it because it had not been in use for a long time. [[User:Ruslik0|Ruslik]]_[[User Talk:Ruslik0|<span style="color:red">Zero</span>]] 20:27, 25 February 2011 (UTC) **Thanks Ruslik. I've asked Wknight94 for his thoughts on this. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 20:36, 25 February 2011 (UTC) ***I think I might remember why. AFAIK it was disabled because new users might add useful content along with the test type material, and would not save their edits a second time when the warning comes up, causing us to lose the material they could have contributed. -- [[User:King of Hearts|King of]] [[User:King of Hearts|<font color="red">&hearts;</font>]] [[User talk:King of Hearts|<font color="red">&diams;</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/King of Hearts|<font color="black">&clubs;</font>]] &spades; 07:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC) ****Perhaps enabling and just logging would be the thing to do, then? Seems like that would help call the attention of other editors who could clean up the edit tests and leave the appropriate additions (if any). [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 14:22, 28 February 2011 (UTC) ===Improper conversion of an article into a redirect=== *'''Task''': Stop new or anonymous users from inserting #redirect tags at the top of existing valid articles. *'''Reason''': When a #redirect tag is inserted at the top of an article, all of the article's content will cease to display, even if the original article content is left intact in the page coding. Furthermore, in almost every case that I've actually seen, the redirect itself was clearly inappropriate. (Several examples can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Againnoted here]). - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 18:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC) :I noticed that little spree of idiocy when it hit one of the articles on my watchlist, but I wonder if a bot would be better suited for this? It seems two things that would be helpful in preventing false positives (in addition to the user's edit count) would be the age and number of edits to the article being redirected, and I don't think the edit filters have access to that data. (The older and more heavily edited the page, the more likely it is that a new user redirecting it is vandalism.) Anyway, I'll do some tests and see if there's a lightweight way to do this based on user edit count and article size alone that won't generate too many false positives. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 18:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC) ::We have ((abf|113)), but I'm not sure how it works. It also seems to be coded in a way that will tag redirects ''not'' placed at the top, so maybe there is a way to make it catch redirects that are placed at the top. <b>[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]</b> 18:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC) ===Canines=== *'''Task''': To prevent the addition of the word 'dog' into the article [[Tim Russ]], by any editor, IP or unconfirmed registered user. <small>It should probably also include any plausible synonyms for 'dog', to future proof it after the filter's existence becomes known.</small> *'''Reason''': There is an extremely persistent IP hopper who for unknown reasons, is obsessed with adding the fact that in his early life, Tim owned many dogs, or variations thereof. It's never been sourced, it's certainly pointless trivia, and the editor is completely uncommunicative anyway. The sheer persistance and intermittent duration of this farce makes permanent semi-protection innappropriate (it's been tried temporarily). - [[User:MickMacNee|MickMacNee]] ([[User talk:MickMacNee|talk]]) 16:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC) ::Please note the warning at the top of the page: ((xt|Filters are applied to ''all'' edits. Therefore, problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an abuse filter.)) The last diff before today that seems to be what you're describing was in December. And the next one before that is in December 2009. If this filter had gone up in December 2009, we would have examined 40 million edits between now and then just to catch 3 instances of easily reverted and relatively harmless vandalism. While I understand it is frustrating for you, I really can't endorse the idea of proposing a whole new edit filter for a problem as infrequent as this. (It is not the type of request that could be easily tacked on to an existing filter either because it targets both a specific page and a specific set of words.) Please just rely on ordinary anti-vandalism methods to handle this issue. I'm sorry if I sound frustrated, I don't mean anything against you personally. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:57, 11 February 2011 (UTC) :::I did read it, probably just too quickly. You see what you want to see I guess, and I must have got the idea from somewhere that this did have a single page watching capability. I don't know that other tools are out there, I've just been watching and waiting tbh. [[User:MickMacNee|MickMacNee]] ([[User talk:MickMacNee|talk]]) 14:33, 12 February 2011 (UTC) ::::((declined)), please use blocks, pending changes, semi-protection, etc. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:25, 17 February 2011 (UTC) ===Filter name=== *'''Task''':Add Bitchesdontknowaboutmyholocaust.jpg to the blacklsist of edits *'''Reason''': Most of the nazi related vandalism I currently see have that phrase in them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chancellor_of_Germany&diff=prev&oldid=413183454 - <font face="Kristen ITC" color="Green">[[User:Tyw7#p|''Tyw7'']]</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;([[User:Tyw7/t|☎ Contact me!]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Tyw7|Contributions]]) &nbsp;&nbsp;''Changing the world one [[WP:edit|edit]] at a time!'' 22:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC) :Is this a frequent issue? You say "most of the Nazi related vandalism" you see has that phrase, but there is only one diff. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC) ::I saw it about five or six times last night in a row. It got burried under my other reverts. --<font face="Kristen ITC" color="Green">[[User:Tyw7#p|''Tyw7'']]</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;([[User:Tyw7/t|☎ Contact me!]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Tyw7|Contributions]]) &nbsp;&nbsp;''Changing the world one [[WP:edit|edit]] at a time!'' 21:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC) ===Small addition consist of obscenities=== *'''Task and reason''': An edit consists wholly of adding one bad word is almost always a vandalism (as opposed to an edit that contains a bad word + other words). [[User:AVBOT|AVBOT's]] author explained this idea [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Emijrp/Good_and_evil_list.css&diff=345745227&oldid=345743286 here]. I'd like to see this tested. - Suggested code article_namespace == 0 & !"autoconfirmed" in user_groups & edit_delta < 20 & edit_delta > 0 & (match := "\ba+ss+[- ]?h+o+l+e+\b|bitch|\b(c+o+c+|k+a+w+)k+s*\b|loo+s+e+r+|[kc]unt|dildo|d+o+u+c+h+e+|f+u+(kk+|c+k|k+c)|n+i+gg+(e+r+|a+h*)|pedophile|fagg|pe(anus|nis|n15)|s+l+u+t+|w+h+o+r+e+|pervert|racist|s+h+[1i]+t+|sock[ \-]?puppet|suck") & lcase(added_lines) rlike match & !(lcase(removed_lines) rlike match) The bad words above was taken from [[Special:AbuseFilter/225]]. I removed a few words that I suspect will cause some FPs.- [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 19:49, 16 December 2010 (UTC) :Created for testing at [[Special:AbuseFilter/384]]. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 22:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC) ::Wow, that was an extremely effective filter, catching bad edits that no other filter caught, once every two minutes. But unfortunately, it consumed a third of the condition limit, so I had to shut it down. If you can find a way to make it run more efficiently, I'd love to have it back up. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 23:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC) :::Thank you for picking this up. I think the "lcase" syntax is the cause. What about: article_namespace == 0 & !"autoconfirmed" in user_groups edit_delta < 20 & edit_delta > 0 & (match := "\b[aA][sS][sS][- ]?[hH][oO][lL][eE]\b|[bB][iI][tT][cC][hH]|\b([cC][oO][cC][kK][aA][wW])[kK][sS]*\b|[lL][oO][oO][sS][eE][rR]|[cCkK][uU][nN][tT]|[dD][iI][lL][dD][oO]|[dD][oO][uU][cC][hH][eE]|[fF][uU]+[cC][kK]|[nN][iI][gG][gG]([eE][rR]|[aA][hH]*)|[pP][eE][dD][oO][pP][hH][iI][lL][eE]|[fF][aA][gG][gG]|[pP][eE][nN][iI][sS]|sS][lL][uU][tT]|[wW][hH][oO][rR][eE]|[pP][eE][rR][vV][eE][rR][tT]|[rR][aA][cC][iI][sS][tT]|[sS][hH][iI][tT]|[sS][uU][cC][kK]") & added_lines rlike match & !(removed_lines rlike match) :::[[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 02:42, 12 February 2011 (UTC) That is '''''much''''' better. Down to 0-30 conditions per edit, whereas the original filter consumed as many as 600 conditions last I checked. The run time also seems down to about a millisecond. If there's anything else that can be done to reduce the condition consumption, that would be great, but I'll leave it running on log mode for now to see how it goes. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 04:37, 12 February 2011 (UTC) :Spoke too soon. Condition consumption still creeps into the hundreds on some edits. Can you rewrite it as a regex string? I know you can't see filter 260, but something like define a regex string, and then ccnorm(added_lines) rlike regexstring) & !ccnorm(removed_lines) rlike regexstring. Thanks. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 04:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC) ::Can you send it (filter 260) to me by e-mail? [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 04:51, 12 February 2011 (UTC) ((undent))The filter is already written as a regex string. Whether the regex string is named "match" or "regexstring" doesn't make a difference. My last try before asking someone else to look into this is: article_namespace == 0 & !"autoconfirmed" in user_groups & edit_delta < 20 & edit_delta > 0 & added_lines rlike "\bass[- ]?hole\b|bitch|\b(coc|kaw)ks*\b|looser|cunt|dildo|douche|fuck|nigg(er|ah*)|pedophile|fagg|penis|slut|whore|pervert|racist|shit|suck" & !removed_lines rlike "\bass[- ]?hole\b|bitch|\b(coc|kaw)ks*\b|looser|cunt|dildo|douche|fuck|nigg(er|ah*)|pedophile|fagg|penis|slut|whore|pervert|racist|shit|suck" Thanks. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 09:12, 12 February 2011 (UTC) :Sorry about the run around. I was probably just overanalyzing. Anyway, this works as well as 260 (which hasn't been shut down in the year and half it's been running, so it must be acceptable). The last version was probably fine too. Anyway, I'm going to leave this running on warn-only to make sure there aren't any false positives, which I'm assuming will be almost non-existent. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 09:31, 12 February 2011 (UTC) ::There will be ''some'' false positives, such as from when someone types the name of an album, or a quote, or something else obscene with asterisks (e.g. f*ck), and then another editsor attempts to change it to the uncensored version in accordance with WP:NOTCENSORED. But I don't want to stand in the way of this filter and will deal with any false positives as they come. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="#ff0000">♥</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="#ff2060">Soap</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="#ff0000">♥</font>]]''' 02:07, 13 February 2011 (UTC) :::I'm sure there will be as with other filters, but hopefully this filter is a net positive. Note: currently, only small case letters are included, this will reduce FPs of bad words as proper names like albums names. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 06:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC) ===Nowiki Vandal=== *'''Task''' Disallow new users from adding nowiki tags to user/user talk pages. *'''Reason'''' The edits of [[User:Dozen lived]], [[User:Brickpeas]], and [[User:Ocean when]] make it pretty clear there's a vandal at work here. If this filter already exists, I apologize for the duplication. <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 19:55, 24 November 2010 (UTC) :[[Special:AbuseFilter/367|Filter 367]] catches these in mainspace, but it's log-only. It could be extended to catch userspace edits if that's desirable. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 20:02, 24 November 2010 (UTC) ::Yes please! What are the chances of setting it to "disallow"? <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 20:02, 24 November 2010 (UTC) :::This vandal has been here for a while. Here's some of their older socks: ((user|Pirtstset)) and ((user|Poinmak)). <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px"><b><font color="#4682B4">[[User:Elockid|Elockid]]</font></b></span> ^{(<font color="#99BADD">[[User talk:Elockid|Talk]]</font>)} 20:07, 24 November 2010 (UTC) ::::As I said [[Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested#addition_to_filter_367|below]], I strongly oppose changing this filter to disallow. There are far too many legitimate uses of nowiki tags for me to support preventing new editors from using them simply to force one persistent vandal to change his method of operation. If people start coming to the false positives page asking why their welcome message was classified as vandalism, what can we honestly say besides "sorry, this is a bad filter and it should be removed"? The only reason I haven't disabled it already is that it has proven useful to catch illegal download links because some users use nowiki to obfuscate URL's. Even if someone figures out how to get the filter to stop the vandalism without frustrating those who want to use welcome templates and tables and other things that rely on nowiki to work, I still would be against it, because it wouldn't actually stop anyone from vandalizing, it would just make them change their methods. Moreover there are too many filters running already and adding another one will just make more vandalism get through because it would cause more edits to reach the condition limit. However, my opinion is not more powerful than anyone else's, and if people really want this filter then I will not take it down if it's created. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:20, 24 November 2010 (UTC) :::::OK, I see where you're coming from. Would a set of limitations help the filter? I don't know much about creating filters, but I think this would work if it were set to monitor new users (accounts created less than 24-48 hours ago), whose only addition consists of nowiki tags. If a narrow filter isn't possible, that's fine, but I thought it would be a good idea to check. <font color="darkorange">[[User:Tnxman307|TN]]</font><b><font color="midnightblue"><big>[[User talk:Tnxman307|X]]</big></font></b><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Tnxman307|Man]]</font> 20:28, 24 November 2010 (UTC) ::::::All I can think of is that we could add a "throttle" so that it would affect only people who do it many times. Anything else would be easily dodgeable once figured out, and I wouldn't want to say publically what we'd be doing anyway. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 21:33, 25 November 2010 (UTC) :::These are all socks of ((user21|Pointy pointy)). I think I'm going to file a checkuser request to check for sleepers. <small class="ad-sig" style="background:#800;border:1px solid black;color:white;">'''[[User:Access Denied|<font color="white">Access</font>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="white">Denied</font>]]</small> 21:42, 25 November 2010 (UTC) ::::FYI, I believe that these are all [[User:Tile join]]. [[User:NawlinWiki|NawlinWiki]] ([[User talk:NawlinWiki|talk]]) 20:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC) :::::::Throttle would be good, or warn. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:26, 17 February 2011 (UTC) ===InfoCheck=== *'''Task''': Flag edits with edit summaries that include the strings "www.InfoCheck.com", "InfoCheck.com", "InfoCheck", and "InfoCheck(r)" for strong possibility of vandalism, often on BLPs. Possibly disallow these edits if it turns out there are no constructive edits being made with these in their summaries. *'''Reason''': All edit summaries I have seen with these strings in them have been vandalism of the most obvious kind, but the edits have come through multiple users over time. Most recent IP blocked for such edits, as an example: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:Contributions/12.14.252.109]. - [[User:Chaoticfluffy|keɪɑtɪk flʌfi]] ([[User talk:Chaoticfluffy|talk]]) 14:45, 24 November 2010 (UTC) :Created as [[Special:AbuseFilter/376|filter 376]] (<span class='plainlinks'>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?title=Special%3AAbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=376 log]</span>). Log only for the moment, will change to tag or disallow later if it works fine and there are no false positives.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 17:57, 24 November 2010 (UTC) *I'm already dealing with this vandal in filter 52, which covers edit summary vandalism in general. I've added this item to that filter and am disabling #376. [[User:NawlinWiki|NawlinWiki]] ([[User talk:NawlinWiki|talk]]) 20:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC) === Redirecting pages to nonexistent targets === *'''Task''': Tag edits that attempt to redirect pages to nonexistent targets, with the exception of targets which were previously targeted but deleted via XfD while the redirect was still in place. *'''Reason''': To clean up after useless redirect pages created in error or of obvious vandalism, because they go nowhere and waste time and resources. - [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|<font color="red">:| TelCo</font>]][[User talk:TCNSV|<font color="green">NaSp</font>]][[User:TCNSV/PMD|<font face="Showcard Gothic" color="blue">Ve :|</font>]] 00:50, 21 November 2010 (UTC) :((notdone)) As far as I know this is not possible to do with an edit filter. There is a bot that updates a list at [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken redirects]] every day, though.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 14:39, 24 November 2010 (UTC) ::It is technically possible to detect redirects to red links, but because of the false positives and the fact that right now every new filter we add means we have to turn another one off to keep the load in control, I oppose this for now. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:35, 24 November 2010 (UTC) :::It seems tro me that [[Special:AbuseFilter/163|filter 163]] already does this. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC) === User creating talkpage of nonexistent mainspace page === *'''Task''': Tag, warn, and possibly even disallow on the second try editors who attempt to create talkpages of nonexistent articles; note that this does not apply to other namespaces, such as File talk and Wikipedia talk namespaces, which may be important for later use. If possible, and for the purpose of helping the people at [[WP:CP]] please restrict this filter to talkpages that are not of subpages, such as Talk:'Article'/temp, which are meant to store versions of articles with copyright removed for later improvement. If it is not possible to exempt subpages from the filter, then it may be best to restrict the talkpage creation filter to new editors. *'''Reason''': To clean up after useless talkpages created in error or obvious vandalism, because they waste time and resources. - [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|<font color="red">:| TelCo</font>]][[User talk:TCNSV|<font color="green">NaSp</font>]][[User:TCNSV/PMD|<font face="Showcard Gothic" color="blue">Ve :|</font>]] 00:50, 21 November 2010 (UTC) :((notdone)) As far as I know this is not possible, because the edit filter does not have access to information about other pages, only the page that was edited. There is a database report at [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages]] that lists talk pages without a corresponding article though, it's updated every few days by a bot.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 14:42, 24 November 2010 (UTC) === Genre changing filter=== *'''Task''': Tag insertion of genre changes on music articles within the infobox (i.e.: Tag: genres changed) *'''Reason''': genre warring IP adresses are major disruptions to editors of music-based articles, so much so that even a genre-changing series of warnings was recently added to Twinkle. [[User:Gunmetal Angel|<font face="papyrus"><font color="#green">GunMetal Angel</font></font>]] 20:33, 20 November 2010 (UTC) === "File:Example.jpg" filter=== *'''Task''': Tag insertion of "File:Example.jpg", as shown in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baroda_cricket_team&action=historysubmit&diff=397880902&oldid=397878927 this edit]. *'''Reason''': This is ''constantly'' used for vandalism. - [[User:Reaper Eternal|Reaper Eternal]] ([[User talk:Reaper Eternal|talk]]) 16:04, 20 November 2010 (UTC) **Except 95% of the time, it is ''not'' vandalism, yet just test edits. <small>([[User:X!|<span style="color:gray">X!</span>]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:X!|<span style="color:gray">talk</span>]]) &nbsp;·&nbsp;[[.beat|@705]] &nbsp;·&nbsp;</small> 15:54, 29 December 2010 (UTC) ===Slugs have hymen filter=== *'''Task''': prevent or tag edits like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hymen&diff=396664930&oldid=396578142 * ongoing waste of resources since many months. Happens sporadically so that page protection does not seem appropriate. [[User:Richiez|Richiez]] ([[User talk:Richiez|talk]]) 09:01, 14 November 2010 (UTC) ===Profanity and Derogatory comments added to articles=== *'''Task''': Place a tag like ''([[Special:Tags|Tag]]: obscenities and/or derogatory comments)'' on edits that contain words like shit, ass, gay, hell, negro, homosexual, etc. Make it a private filter as well. *'''Reason''': I can't believe nobody has created a filter for swear words. I am no expert at edit filters, but it seems like a filter like this would be really helpful in general vandal-fighting. [[User:Usb10|Usb10]] ^{[[User talk:Usb10|Connected?]]} 01:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC) :Various filters already catch some of these words. Is there any edit you think should have been caught by the edit filter, but didn't? [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 13:22, 10 November 2010 (UTC) ::Well I mean I know there is a possible vandalism filter but it doesn't really catch anything (e.g it caught [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Ross_%28BMX_rider%29&action=historysubmit&diff=363362223&oldid=363298795 this] but then on a different page why doesn't it catch [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ABongwarrior&action=historysubmit&diff=392371359&oldid=392371317 this]?? The filters that are supposed to find profanity don't seem to work to well; maybe someone could make them better?? [[User:Usb10|Usb10]] ^{[[User talk:Usb10|Connected?]]} 01:01, 11 November 2010 (UTC) === titaniumwf.com spam === *'''Task''': Block additions of the text "titaniumwf" *'''Reason''': There has been a months-long effort by this website to spam Wikipedia (including other language project). The website has been blacklisted on meta, but various users and IPs continue to add links without formatting. See the contributions of ((vandal|Managermerrill)), for example. A filter that would block these attempts would be useful. [[User:Deli nk|Deli nk]] ([[User talk:Deli nk|talk]]) 21:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC) :((done)) as ((abf|374)). '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 22:58, 20 November 2010 (UTC) ===[[Special:AbuseFilter/50|Filter 50]]=== *'''Task''': Instead of using <code>[A-Z]</code>, wouldn't be better to use unicode property <code>\p{Lu}</code>? *'''Reason''': This way it would match other uppercase letters which are not in [A-Z], like those with have diacritics. I'm also asking because at Portuguese wikiprojects we also need to match characters like <code>[ÁÀÂÃÇÉÊẼÍÓÒÔÕQ̃ÚŰÜŨ]</code> and I though of adding <code>\p{Lu}</code> instead of specify every possible character. Would it be efficient enough or is it better to add the characters explicitly in [...]? Thanks for your help, - [[b:pt:User:Heldergeovane|Helder]] 23:56, 6 November 2010 (UTC) :Perhaps using <code>ccnorm</code> to get rid of accents and other things like that would be a good idea. I won't make any changes though, because I'm not familiar with this filter.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 09:09, 7 November 2010 (UTC) ::Unfortunately, currently <code>ccnorm</code> doesn't work for most of those characters, as pointed out in [[bugzilla:25619]]. [[b:pt:User:Heldergeovane|Helder]] 12:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC) ===Default Text Editor Filter=== *'''Task''': Edits in which the diff includes additions like <nowiki>'''Bold text'''</nowiki> and <nowiki>''Italic text''</nowiki> and other defaults from the wiki editor. *'''Reason''': Identify vandalism. No expert with edit filters, but throwing the idea out there. - <span style="background-color: #0000FF">[[User:Allmightyduck|<font color="#FFFF00"><b>Allmightyduck</b></font>]] [[WP:APPLE|<font color="#FFFF00"><b></b></font>]]</span>&nbsp;<font size="1">[[User talk:Allmightyduck|What did I do wrong?]]</font> 20:33, 1 November 2010 (UTC) :Already exists as [[Special:AbuseFilter/18|Filter 18]]. We disabled it about a year ago because a lot of times people will make edits that have helpful information and "toolbar spam" in the same edit, and in some cases may not even be aware of it. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC) ::Gotcha. Thanks. <span style="background-color: #0000FF">[[User:Allmightyduck|<font color="#FFFF00"><b>Allmightyduck</b></font>]] [[WP:APPLE|<font color="#FFFF00"><b></b></font>]]</span>&nbsp;<font size="1">[[User talk:Allmightyduck|What did I do wrong?]]</font> 21:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC) ===addition to filter 367=== *'''Task''': Extend filter 367 to cover any non-autoconfirmed users adding ''any'' nowiki tags outside of their own user space (also add support for <nowiki><nowiki /></nowiki>) *'''Reason''': When i suggested this filter i was mainly thinking of user and user talk space. [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 02:59, 26 October 2010 (UTC) - [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 02:59, 26 October 2010 (UTC) :*I don't really think that would be a good idea. For one, it would take a longer time to run the filter. Secondly, people generally are aware when their userpage has been vandalized, and this type of vandalism is not really particularly more of an emergency than any other kind. Thirdly, the filter wouldn't actually ''do'' anything to stop the vandalism since it's a log-only filter, and probably always will be, since it has over a 90% false positive rate already and if we disallow people adding nowiki tags anywhere in a user page or user talk page it will certainly go even higher. It would even stop people from using welcome templates, since most of them contain nowiki tags as well. I don't post on this page much because people would soon get tired of my "no, no, no", but in this case I really have to object more loudly than normal. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:20, 26 October 2010 (UTC) ::* I agree. Vandalism to user pages isn't as much of a problem as that to articles, and generally gets noticed anyway, so this filter is unnecessary.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 12:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC) ===New user editing [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion]] page=== *'''Task''': Tag edits of users with less than four edits elsewhere. *'''Reason''': To help keep track of possible sockpuppetry. As a suggestion: !("autoconfirmed" in user_groups) & (wikipedia_namespace == 0) [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|<font color="red">:| TelCo</font>]][[User talk:TCNSV|<font color="green">NaSp</font>]][[User:TCNSV/PMD|<font face="Showcard Gothic" color="blue">Ve :|</font>]] 09:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC) :Created as [[Special:AbuseFilter/369|filter 369]] (<span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=369 hits]</span>). Log only for the moment, but once I'm sure that it's working well and there are no false positives I might change it to tag the edit.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 06:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC) ::I would oppose that as it would likely just make people who get tagged more angry than they would be already. Personally I think the filter itself is a bad idea, as there's genuinely nothing wrong with a new user editing an AfD, and in fact, if the new editor is also the author of the article being discussed, it's pretty much inevitable. Is the incidence of sockpuppetry at AfD's so extreme that we have to screen every edit made by every editor to see if it might be a new user editing an AfD? '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:52, 27 October 2010 (UTC) :::Yeah, looking at the hits, I have to agree that it doesn't look like there's much cause for concern. Most hits are just new users replying to people's concerns about the article they created.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 12:06, 27 October 2010 (UTC) ::::What about the same concept for RfA/RfB's? [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 01:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC) ((od|::::)) Would it be possible to restrict the filter to tagging only those who have not previously created any pages before !voting in the AfD? [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|<font color="red">:| TelCo</font>]][[User talk:TCNSV|<font color="green">NaSp</font>]][[User:TCNSV/PMD|<font face="Showcard Gothic" color="blue">Ve :|</font>]] 00:41, 21 November 2010 (UTC) ===IP user changing numbers/years=== *'''Task''': Flag edits where only numbers in the article are changed (perhaps restricted to biographies) *'''Reason''': Some vandals like to randomly change the year of birth, etc. in biographies, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pier_Paolo_Pasolini&diff=391439468&oldid=391103899 like this]. If several numbers are changed in an article at once by an IP user, it's often a sign of vandalism, particularly if the changes are to four-digit numbers (19xx or 20xx). - [[User:Morn|Morn]] ([[User talk:Morn|talk]]) 15:57, 18 October 2010 (UTC) :Unfortunately I don't believe this is possible, as the edit filter sees the "before" and "after" diffs as single chunks, and does not have the ability to detect if a single ''part'' of a line or paragraph has been changed, nor can it tell whether numbers or letters or anything else are being added or subtracted, or whether numbers that are present in the "after" diff were also present in the "before". The closest thing that could be within the realm of possibility would be to detect changes to an infobox, but even that would have the same problems as [[Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested#Replacement_of_BLP_infobox_image|this]] request from Jun, namely that it would turn up a lot of false positives because a lot of edits to infoboxes will be legitimate. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:14, 18 October 2010 (UTC) ::Well I suppose I'm spoiled by Python's difflib which does have character-level diffs (just as the graphical diff under article history). It's a bit unfortunate that this functionality isn't available. Scientific articles might also benefit from a bit more control over which numbers are changed. Vandalism to numbers often goes undetected for surprisingly long, because it's not the kind of mistake that jumps out at you exactly. ("Oh, but that 117th digit of pi is actually an 8!" doesn't really happen that often I think). That's why they're such a popular target. Also, there are sometimes good faith edits to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Lagerfeld&diff=390374245&oldid=390042328 birth years that are contested], but then you would also want people to at least include a reference. So I guess we'll have to file this request under "WP is not yet ready as a scientific reference" for now. :-/ --[[User:Morn|Morn]] ([[User talk:Morn|talk]]) 22:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC) :Another idea: How about checking for IP edits where the number of wikitext bytes does not change? If you only vandalize a birth year, obviously the number of characters stays constant. Not perfect, but perhaps worth a try. At least that criterion would have flagged the two edits above. --[[User:Morn|Morn]] ([[User talk:Morn|talk]]) 22:58, 18 October 2010 (UTC) ===Nowiki tag abuse=== *'''Task''': Prevent the use of randomly placed nowiki tags to evade other filters. *'''Reason''': Becoming popular among 4chan vandals. - [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 00:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC) :What exactly do you mean by "randomly placed"? <span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:80%;">'''/[[User:Fetchcomms|<span style="color:#000;">ƒETCH</span>]][[User talk:Fetchcomms|<span style="color:#000;">COMMS</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Fetchcomms|<span style="color:#000;">/</span>]]'''</span> 03:41, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ::Example code: <nowiki>FU<nowiki />CK YO<nowiki />U AND YO<nowiki />R MO<nowiki />M HAG<nowiki />GER???</nowiki> (often in the middle of curse words) [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 03:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC) :::I edit conflicted typing out a much less interesting example. Anyhow, the best approach is probably just to block edits by non-autoconfirmed users where the added text contains more than (say) three nowiki tags. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 03:50, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ::::It would need to cover both nowiki varietes: {nowiki}{/nowiki} and {nowiki /}. (Of course with < and > instead of braces) [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 03:52, 16 October 2010 (UTC) :Also make it cover [[User:Sooaap|non-autoconfirmed users adding nowiki tags around user or user talk pages]]. [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 15:03, 16 October 2010 (UTC) Created, log only for now, at [[Special:AbuseFilter/367]]. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 06:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC) ===Jcarleo=== *'''Task''': Prevent IP sockpuppets of [[User:Jcarleo]] from adding <nowiki>((sockpuppet|jcarleo))</nowiki> to [[User:C.Fred]]'s (and potentially other users') user and user talk pages. *'''Reason''': Prevent sockpuppets of Jcarleo from adding false sock templates to userpages. - '''[[User:Eagles247|<font face="Verdana" color="003B48" size="2px">Eagles</font>]]''' '''[[User talk:Eagles247|<font face="Verdana" color="003B48" size="2px">24/7</font>]]''' [[Special:Contributions/Eagles247|<font color="003B48" size="1px">(C)</font>]] 23:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC) :I think if you want to do this it would be best to put it in a filter such as ((abf|58)), not a separate filter, to save time. That way people that aren't affected by 58 will not have to run through another filter afterwards. I'm not sure how to type out the | symbol though and couldn't seem to work it out in my sandbox. (Don't just use |, the system will see it as an "or" operand and therefore treat "sockpuppet" as the string to look for. "1" doesn't seem to work either, despite the system saying it should.) '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 00:17, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ::<code><source lang="html4strict">&#124;</source></code> [[User:Access Denied|<font color="red">Access Denied</font>]]&nbsp;^{[[User talk:Access Denied|<font color="black">[FATAL ERROR]</font>]]} 00:19, 16 October 2010 (UTC) :::I don't think an HTML code would work either, it would just be parsed as a literal, including the ampersand. I'll try it though. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 00:21, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ::::((done)) added to 58 with "1" as the connector. I don't know why it wasn't working before, I must have made some kind of mistake. If anyone thinks that 58 is not a good place for this feel free to move it around. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 00:26, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ===Not a BLP issue=== [[List of School Rumble characters]] regards a fictional TV series, but an edit was tagged as "Possible BLP issue or vandalism. In addition to a transclusion template specifying that an article is about a school, perhaps the "School Libel and Vandalism" filter can be tweaked to require the template. [[User:Mechamind90|<font color="#0000FF">mechamind</font>]][[User talk:Mechamind90|<font color="#009900">9</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Mechamind90|<font color="#FF0000">0</font>]] 22:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC) ===Random characters=== *'''Task''': Detect addition of seven consecutive consonants (excluding y), e.g. sdfsdfs. This is a very common type of vandalism. *'''Reason''': Seven or more consecutive consonants are very uncommon. They are almost certainly caused by randomly typing characters on the keyboard. *'''Code''': !("autoconfirmed" in user_groups) & (article_namespace == 0) & (added_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{7,}") & !(removed_lines rlike "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{7,}") & !(added_lines rlike "https?://[^ ]*?[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{7,}") - [[User:Ideal gas equation|Ideal gas equation]] ([[User talk:Ideal gas equation|talk]]) 13:56, 12 October 2010 (UTC) :Created as [[Special:AbuseFilter/366|filter 366]]. Log only for the moment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=366 hits]) but might consider changing it to tag if there are few false positives.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 15:35, 12 October 2010 (UTC) ::The false positives I can see this catching are nucleotide and peptide sequences in biology-related articles. I'll try to keep in eye on it to see if that happens. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 20:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC) :::The filter seems to be doing good, but I think it should be added as a line within the [[Special:AbuseFilter/135|Repeating characters filter]] rather than a separate filter all its own, unless you are planning to bring it to a level above "tag". Merging it would also allow us to re-use the code that exempts URL's, such as URL's containing long strings of base-64, or even short strings such as you often see on YouTube, without having to run the code again. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 15:59, 13 October 2010 (UTC) ::::I'm not sure if this is technially possible, but if all the false positives are coming from peptide and nucleotide articles, could you say something like "If article is member of Category:Peptides, ignore" and If article is member of Category:Nucleotides, ignore". That seems like an easy solution to the problem. <span style="text-shadow:#ff1100 0.10em 0.10em 0.10em"><font color="black">[[User:Sven Manguard|Sven Manguard]]</font> _{<span style="text-shadow:#ffd700 0.14em 0.14em 0.14em"><font color="black">[[User talk:Sven Manguard|'''Talk''']]</font>}</span> 16:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC) :::::Unfortunately, I don't think that would be technically possible.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 18:43, 27 October 2010 (UTC) :If there are no objections I will change this to tag the edit, since there is a fairly low number of false positives.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 18:43, 27 October 2010 (UTC) ::Found a false positive earlier [[Special:AbuseLog/3602072|here]]; apparently seven consonants isn't that uncommon in German (Rückwartsschnitt). No real way to code for that, I just wanted to point it out since if this filter goes to "tag" mode it may lead to people posting on the false positives page wondering why they're being tagged. Perhaps we just need to look for more than seven consonants. Also I think it would be good to consider merging this into 135 to save time. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC) :::I've merged it into into [[Special:AbuseFilter/135|filter 135]] and marked it as deleted.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 11:14, 28 October 2010 (UTC) ===Possible BLP issue or vandalism=== This tag is used by three filters ([[Special:Abusefilter/39|Abusefilter/39]], [[Special:Abusefilter/189|Abusefilter/189]] and [[Special:Abusefilter/339|Abusefilter/339]]) that aren't public, for good reason. However, whichever of the three tagged [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chad_Dukes_%28radio_personality%29&action=historysubmit&diff=389757913&oldid=389551609 &diffonly=1 this diff] subsequently didn't tag [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chad_Dukes_%28radio_personality%29&diff=next&oldid=389758880&diffonly=1 this one], and obviously taught the IP editor how to evade the filter. Better homoglyph detection is desperately needed here; the second diff stood for nearly three hours. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 02:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC) :As you could have seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?title=Special%3AAbuseLog&wpSearchUser=71.114.49.28&wpSearchFilter=Chad+Dukes+%28radio+personality%29&wpSearchTitle= here], it was filter 339, which is currently public. I think it may be a good idea to make it private, but this isn't the place to discuss it. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 12:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC) ===Game prevention=== *'''Task''': Undo/prevent/whatever is best redirects to [[The Game (mind game)]]. *'''Reason''': In the last two days, there's been a spate of redirects on Main Page featured articles (see [[Shield nickel]] and [[Convoy GP55]], and it appears that it may be spreading [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=B.o.B&diff=prev&oldid=389326202]. [[User:Ged UK|<font color="green">Ged</font>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<font color="orange">'''''UK'''''</font>&nbsp;]] 14:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC) - [[User:Ged UK|<font color="green">Ged</font>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<font color="orange">'''''UK'''''</font>&nbsp;]] 14:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC) ::And another [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nobel_Peace_Prize&diff=prev&oldid=389523851] by the same IP, blocked for now. '''<font face="Arial">[[User:Acroterion|<font color="black">Acroterion</font>]] _{<small>[[User talk:Acroterion|<font color="gray">(talk)</font>]]</small>}</font>''' 14:53, 8 October 2010 (UTC) :::Created as [[Special:AbuseFilter/363|filter 363]]. Log only for the moment ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=363 hits]) but will change to prevent if it works fine and there are no false positives.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 14:59, 8 October 2010 (UTC) ::::Couple of hits, no false positives. Changing to disallow.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 20:21, 8 October 2010 (UTC) :::::Thanks for this, it seems to be working well. [[User:Ged UK|<font color="green">Ged</font>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<font color="orange">'''''UK'''''</font>&nbsp;]] 11:09, 11 October 2010 (UTC) ===Filter 331=== This filter shouldn't be visible to the public (i.e. set it to private). [[User:Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">Minima</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">c</font>]]<font color="#0645AD"></font> ([[User talk:Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">talk</font>]]) 09:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC) :((done)) Thanks for pointing it out.&nbsp;- [[User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 16:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC) ===Social network catcher=== *'''Task''': It would catch anything with a Social network link, and tag it. *'''Reason''': I see lots of pages with things like Facebook, and Myspace, and almost all of the time it's not needed. Oh yeah, I could also help write the code if anyone wants. [[User:Endofskull|Endofskull]] ([[User talk:Endofskull|talk]]) 02:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC) :Please e-mail me the recommended code. '''Do not publish it publicly''', per [[WP:BEANS]]. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 11:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC) ::But it shouldn't be blocked outright, nor do I think that it should be tagged. A lot of time, a facebook or myspace link may be included in the External Links section within reason (in fact, there are more than 1300 uses of myspace and facebook in the article space right now). Even if it isn't really a good place for the link, it's not the worst thing in the world, and not something serious enough to deserve a tag, warning, or block. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 01:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC) :::I think this is already covered by XLinkBot. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 15:03, 29 December 2010 (UTC) ===Filter 231=== Next to "article namespace", perhaps '''== 0''' should be changed to '''>= 50 (or was it => 50 ?)'''. Smaller ones can presumably be tagged as blanking. [[User:Mechamind90|<font color="#0000FF">mechamind</font>]][[User talk:Mechamind90|<font color="#009900">9</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Mechamind90|<font color="#FF0000">0</font>]] 15:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC) :No, this condition means that the page is an article. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:52, 19 September 2010 (UTC) ===QuickiWiki Look Up=== *'''Task''': Prevent edit cruft added by a Firefox extension. *'''Reason''': Seeing more articles with "QuickiWiki Look Up" sometimes followed by extraneous text. Often but not always it is at the bottom of the article. The editors using this extension, and not checking their work, range from anonymous IP's to people working on train articles and higher math. I searched on "QuickiWiki" and found 29 still uncorrected in main article space. One was a false positive, in [[Zwiki]]. I changed my search to "QuickiWiki Look Up", quoted, and found 28, no false positives. I reverted them all, examples: ** http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Bionicle_characters&action=historysubmit&diff=384813395&oldid=381820897 ** http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques_Foccart&action=historysubmit&diff=384813664&oldid=384157803 ** http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hindustan_College_of_Engineering&action=historysubmit&diff=384813823&oldid=378908180 I picked the examples with extraneous text to show it is hard to revert these as often they have baked in, with intervening edits, and it is not always clear what is cruft and what is not. - [[User:Colfer2|Colfer2]] ([[User talk:Colfer2|talk]]) 17:31, 14 September 2010 (UTC) :Is it always followed by the words "Look Up"? Adding a [http://userscripts.org/scripts/reviews/5858 link] by the way, since it's harder than I expected to find it on Google since there is other software by that name, and Google autocorrects it to QuickWiki if you don't use a + sign before it. It could perhaps be added to the [[Special:AbuseFilter/313|Skype filter]] since the problem is very similar. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 17:46, 14 September 2010 (UTC) ::Yes, the bad edits always say "QuickiWiki Look Up". Thanks... -[[User:Colfer2|Colfer2]] ([[User talk:Colfer2|talk]]) 18:06, 14 September 2010 (UTC) ::It seems to be the Firefox extension [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161777/ WikiTweak], according to this comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Leonard^Bloom&oldid=383912819#X-15_spam_.26_edit -[[User:Colfer2|Colfer2]] ([[User talk:Colfer2|talk]]) 18:13, 14 September 2010 (UTC) :::((done))I've added it to the [[Special:AbuseFilter/345|"codespill"]] filter, which is warn-only, in the hopes that people using this extension will see the problem and not save the edit. It will also help us track the edits. However if this turns out to not be enough (especially if the extension becomes more popular), it can be moved to the Skype filter, which is set to "disallow". '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 18:29, 14 September 2010 (UTC) ::::Thank you Soap. -[[User:Colfer2|Colfer2]] ([[User talk:Colfer2|talk]]) 18:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC) :::::So far only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/3324398 one hit], but it's still worth keeping. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 12:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC) The filter missed two new edits, one in article space: # [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sceptre_%28disambiguation%29&action=historysubmit&diff=402511214&oldid=367248459 diff] # [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMaury_Markowitz&action=historysubmit&diff=403481695&oldid=403457972 diff] -[[User:Colfer2|Colfer2]] ([[User talk:Colfer2|talk]]) 00:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC) ===Tampering with subject name in lead sentence or infobox of a BLP=== *'''Task''': Stop anonymous or unconfirmed users from altering, replacing, or deleting the subject name in the lead sentence or infobox of a BLP article. *'''Reason''': A lot of such edits by new or anonymous users turn out to be vandalism; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Sanchez&diff=prev&oldid=383683780 here] is a recent example. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 18:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC) ::I believe that it's technically impossible to detect the change. We can test for such changes in the infobox, but not in the actual article. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 12:42, 12 September 2010 (UTC) :::If it's possible to detect and stop such changes only in the infoboxes, that's fine with me; it's certainly better than nothing. --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 17:58, 5 October 2010 (UTC) ::::I wrote a first version of it, and have this version in my test filter. Please let me know if it misses any ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=358 filter 358], anything in October). Please let me know if you know of any the filter missed. I did check that it catches the diff you suplied above. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 20:20, 5 October 2010 (UTC) :::::Filter has gone live with its own filtr, although it's still set to log onlt - see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=364 filter 364]. I'm not sure it should be set to disallow, as there are possibly too many false positives - see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/3479399 here]. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 12:38, 11 October 2010 (UTC) ===Example file tagging=== *'''Task''': Identify edits where example files are included (example.jpg, example.png, etc) *'''Reason''': To make edits where example files are included easier to find. - [[User:JV Smithy|JV Smithy]] ([[User talk:JV Smithy|talk]]) 02:38, 6 September 2010 (UTC) :Are you talking about any file which begins with the word "Example"? If not, then what are the files/criteria for identifying them? [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 05:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC) :: For example: <nowiki>[[File:Example.jpg]]</nowiki> included in articles is what I meant. [[User:JV Smithy|JV Smithy]] ([[User talk:JV Smithy|talk]]) 01:22, 8 September 2010 (UTC) :::This was once tagged by [[Special:AbuseFilter/18|Filter 18]]. I don't know why it was deleted. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 09:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC) ::::Too many people were making positive edits with test-type formatting included by accident. I don't know whether that was the only reason for turning it off or if it was also during a time when we needed to cut back in general, though. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC) ===Identify external website links without http:// protocol prefix=== *'''Task''': Identify external links which don't include the protocol prefix http:// and notify the editor. *'''Reason''': According to the help section external links should be specified as [http://www.website.com] but if a user forgets to include the protocol - external link [www.website.com] - is included as text instead of a clickable link. - [[User:Adrian-from-london|Adrian-from-london]] ([[User talk:Adrian-from-london|talk]]) 22:34, 5 September 2010 (UTC) :#Is this a major problem here on Wikipedia? While this is clearly technically possible, the need to confirm that it's a single square bracket, not a double one, would probably take more time. :#Any reason not to have an optional "s" after the "http"? Some external links may be to https sites. :[[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 05:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC) ===Stronger filter rules for high school articles=== *'''Task''' Prevent edits that replace phrases in the article with inappropriate language *'''Reason''' High school articles are a frequent target of vandalism, and there are a number of words and phrasings that would cause false positives elsewhere that would be almost always inappropriate in a high school article. - [[User:Triona|Triona]] ([[User talk:Triona|talk]]) 04:46, 2 September 2010 (UTC) ::Not quite specific enough, but one shouldn't be too specific here per [[WP:BEANS]]. Please [[Special:EmailUser/Od Mishehu|email me]] with: ::#which words should be excluded here? ::#What is the criterion for recognizing that an article is about a high school? ::[[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 07:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC) :::See [[Special:AbuseFilter/39|filter 39]]. This filter picks up two different things: Words which should (almost) never appear in school articles (like 'cunt\b'), and words which can appear but should be flagged for review (like 'paedophile'). It's quite possible, with some thought, to split out the former category into a new warning (or blocking) filter, but the other type should also remain to allow the 'edgy' edits to continue and be flagged for review. I've always thought however that it would make more sense to place the pure vandalism terms in more generic vandalism filters. -- [[user:zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] ^{[[user_talk:zzuuzz|(talk)]]} 07:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC) ===Multiple unexplained section blankings at one article=== *'''Task''': Disallow a single anonymous/unconfirmed user from making 5+ edits in the form of unexplained section removals at a single article within a 30-minute period. *'''Reason''': Some vandals have wrecked pages by systematically removing one section at a time to avoid attracting the attention of antivandal bots or tripping the filter that stops large deletions of content. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 08:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC) :There's already a filter in place for this that just tags it at the moment, [[Special:AbuseFilter/172]]. This is actually one of the most-often-hit filters on Wikipedia. I don't know why it doesn't actually do anything, maybe you could ask some of the people who have worked on it, or at [[WT:EF]]. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 09:05, 24 August 2010 (UTC) ===Cross-namespace redirect=== *'''Task''': Detect creation of cross-namespace redirects. *'''Reason''': This is a common issue here at Wikipedia, as CNRs often dominate the lists of [[WP:RFD]] - [[User:Andros 1337|<span style="color:red"><span style="font-family : Trebuchet MS;">'''ANDROS'''¹³³⁷</span></span>]] 03:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC) *((added|Technically possible)) to handle all current namespaces and update in case of any change, but comlpicated. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:42, 23 August 2010 (UTC) :*Would be a small bit easier if the abuse filter supports lookaheads in the regular expressions... does it? I couldn't find whether it does anywhere. - [[w:User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[w:User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 12:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC) :Be careful not to make policy with this filter. The types of CNRs found in [[WP:CSD#R2|CSD R2]] are all subject to speedy deletion, and hence can be regarded as "prohibited". Other CNRs are not subject to speedy deletion, even though they are usually deleted if presented at RfD, so using the filter to block them would go beyond current practice. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 15:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC) ::I agree with Gavia immer here. Detect might be ok, but it probably should not warn or prevent. Might be best handled by a [[WP:DBR]] (which [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Cross-namespace redirects|already exists]])... –[[user:xeno|<font face="verdana" color="black">'''xeno'''</font>]][[user talk:xeno|<font color="black">^talk</font>]] 15:36, 23 August 2010 (UTC) ===Unique blacking vandalism=== *'''Task''': Revert blacking vandalism *'''Reason''': Recently today, I discovered hundreds of IPs vandalising pages by adding <nowiki><div style="position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; background-color: black; opacity: 1; z-index: 99;"></div></nowiki> in several article spaces, therefore blacking out the page. Not only the people around the world would see the information, but also, it makes the edit impossible to roll back without going to the history box unless you're using any separate AV tools like Huggle and Igloo. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick&action=historysubmit&diff=379723825&oldid=379723697 Here's] an example of the one I reverted. - [[User:Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">Minima</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">c</font>]]<font color="#0645AD"></font> ([[User talk:Minimac|<font color="#0645AD">talk</font>]]) 06:15, 19 August 2010 (UTC) ::((done)) Older filter modified. -- [[User:Gogo Dodo|Gogo Dodo]] ([[User talk:Gogo Dodo|talk]]) 06:32, 19 August 2010 (UTC) :::Sigh. I thought this was a thing of the past. Yes, we had a pre-existing filter for this, which was loosened up a bit because it was producing false positives. But now I see we're going to have to go back to the stricter form unless someone can think of a genius solution that will stop the vandalism without stopping people from putting templates, etc. with fixed positioning in them. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:17, 19 August 2010 (UTC) ===Personal information of specific individual=== *'''Task''': Prevent the repeated addition of a specific individual's personal information including phone number *'''Reason''': An anonymous editor using a variety of IPs has been repeatedly posting someone's personal phone number along with sexually suggestive text. Because of the multiple IPs in a broad range involved, blocking has been ineffective and range blocking is not practical. Here is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:218.186.8.233&diff=377311994&oldid=377310621 one example] of the offending text. (Only administrators will be able to view this edit because I have hidden it using Revision Deletion, but if a non-admin would like to help out here, I'll email the text.) At this point it seems an edit filter would be the best way to handle this situation. There is a bit of additional info at my talk page [[User_talk:Edgar181#Help.3F|here]]. -- [[User:Edgar181|Ed]] ([[User talk:Edgar181|Edgar181]]) 19:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC) :This has been done before, on ((abf|293)) and one other one I can't find right now. I believe it was turned off because we decided it was better off going straight to the oversighters, and edit filter logs can't be oversighted yet (though a fix is coming soon). However it's possible it was turned off because the vandal was stopped by an enormous rangeblock we laid down at about the same time; basically, if the oversight team is OK with restoring this filter then we can do it and maintain it very easily; if not I would recommend waiting until the fix that will allow us to oversight edit filter logs is in place. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 22:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC) ::I'm not sure I understand the reason that it might have been turned off. Would the edit filter unavoidably create some kind of public log entry that contains the information that shouldn't be seen? If so, I agree that it would make sense to go directly to oversight. -- [[User:Edgar181|Ed]] ([[User talk:Edgar181|Edgar181]]) 23:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC) :::Yes, in [[Special:AbuseLog]], which can be searched by filter ID and other things, and will show the text of the hits even if the filter is private. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 23:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC) ::::OK, it definitely looks like an edit filter is not appropriate this case then. Thanks for the explanation. -- [[User:Edgar181|Ed]] ([[User talk:Edgar181|Edgar181]]) 00:37, 6 August 2010 (UTC) ===Laughing=== *'''Task''': Prevent and warn editors who introduce 'lol' or 'LOL' into articles. *'''Reason''': Many bad-faith vandalism edits contain the phrase 'lol' or 'LOL'. If this filter could be limited to the Article namespace, as sometimes editors may use 'lol' in discussions, but there are almost zero situations when it should be included in an article.[[User:Acather96|Acather96]] ([[User talk:Acather96|talk]]) 16:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC) *:I think there would be too many false positives, actually: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=lol&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search search results in article space for 'lol']. We do block longer strings such as "lololol" though. If this does get created, I think it should not be set to disallow, because answering the false positive reports would be quite a headache ... similar to the current "your mom" filter but probably more extensive. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC) ===Books that copy Wikipedia=== *'''Task''': Prevent all editors making edits that add these text strings to articles: "Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases", "Webster′s Quotations, Facts and Phrases" (note the curly apostrophe in this case), "Frederic P Miller", "Alphascript", "Betascript". Warn editors adding these text strings to articles: "Icon Group International", "VDM Publishing". *'''Reason''': Two series of books copy material from Wikipedia: Alphascript/Betascript/[[VDM Publishing]] and [[Icon Group International]]/Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Alphascript copies whole articles, Icon Group copies snippets. Both 'sources' are often used as [[WP:CIRCULAR|circular references]] by Wikipedia editors unaware of the nature of the source. Hundreds of uses of these books have been removed from Wikipedia articles; a filter would help stop this recurring. As the books are hosted on Google Books a blacklisting of a URL is impossible. See [[WP:ALPHASCRIPT]] and [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 70#Icon Group International/Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases]] for more on this. - [[User:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:red;">Fences</span>]]<span style="background-color:white; color:#808080;">&amp;</span>[[User talk:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:black;">Windows</span>]] 22:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC) **I removed more today. This filter was previously requested but not done: [[Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested/Archive 3#Icon Group International]]. [[User:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:red;">Fences</span>]]<span style="background-color:white; color:#808080;">&amp;</span>[[User talk:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:black;">Windows</span>]] 17:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC) **Please add "Mainyu Eldon A." to the text to block, this is a new "author" used by Alphascript. [[User:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:red;">Fences</span>]]<span style="background-color:white; color:#808080;">&amp;</span>[[User talk:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:black;">Windows</span>]] 17:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC) **:I would very much support doing this if it can be done without stressing the wiki too much. If we block the string "VDM Publishing", we should probably also block "VDM Verlag", which is another name used by the same publisher for various unreliable publications, though not to my knowledge for Wikipedia dumps. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 18:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC) **I would concur that this edit filter is worthwhile. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 10:28, 11 August 2010 (UTC) **I just removed 10 refs here (and some more on other-language 'pedias) that would have been caught by this filter. &nbsp;--[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]] 23:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC) ***Several more removed today. [[User:Dougweller|Dougweller]] ([[User talk:Dougweller|talk]]) 12:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC) *'''Hellooo?!'''. It's tumbleweed here. How do these actually get agreed? [[User:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:red;">Fences</span>]]<span style="background-color:white; color:#808080;">&amp;</span>[[User talk:Fences and windows|<span style="background-color:white; color:black;">Windows</span>]] 23:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC) **My understanding is that at the moment for performance reasons we can't add any new edit filters unless we remove an existing one. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 15:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC) ===Filter name=== *'''Task''': Prevent IP and new editors from doing mass replaces of ((tl|otheruses4)), ((tl|For2)), ((tl|quote)), etc with other templates, and other pointless edits *'''Reason''': These are the signature actions of the sockpuppets of the indef community banned editor [[User:100110100]], whose only edits are to do these random template changes (and then usually come back with another sock and try to get them deleted under the claim that they are "unused") and to post odd questions at the various reference boards. As he often performs hundreds of these edits before he is detected, having a filter would be immensely helpful. If it needs to be limited to specific ranges, we have at least two he is known to work from. - -- [[User:AnmaFinotera|<span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'><em>AnmaFinotera</em></span>]]&nbsp;([[User talk:AnmaFinotera|<em style="color: #F90">talk</em>]] ~ [[Special:Contributions/AnmaFinotera|<em style="color: #099">contribs</em>]]) 14:23, 27 July 2010 (UTC) *You're going to have to expand on "etc" and detail which other templates and other pointless edits you want to have considered. Neither we nor the edit filter system can guess what is and is not unconstructive. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:29, 28 July 2010 (UTC) ::As I recall, he has also stripped ((tl|quote2)) and ((tl|otheruses3)). I'd have to go through all the socks to find anymore, but those are a start. If it comes off his IP range, though, and involves template replacement, it isn't constructive since he is indef banned. -- [[User:AnmaFinotera|<span style='font-family: Georgia, serif; color:#639;'><em>AnmaFinotera</em></span>]]&nbsp;([[User talk:AnmaFinotera|<em style="color: #F90">talk</em>]] ~ [[Special:Contributions/AnmaFinotera|<em style="color: #099">contribs</em>]]) 13:05, 28 July 2010 (UTC) ===Removal of LGBT project banner with disruptive edit summary=== *'''Task''': Prevent new users from removing ((tl|WikiProject LGBT studies)) (or its redirects) when edit summary contains the word <tt>faggot</tt> *'''Reason''': Long-term abuse as occurred at [[talk:Johnny Weir]] prior to semi-protection, now moved to [[talk:Anderson Cooper]] - –[[user:xeno|<font face="verdana" color="black">'''xeno'''</font>]][[user talk:xeno|<font color="black">^talk</font>]] 17:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC) :I'm in the process of hanfdling this. '''Please don't add code for this''', per [[WP:BEANS]]. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 12:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC) ::[[Special:AbuseFilter/356|Filter 356]], though there are no hits yet (nearly 4 days after creation). If there are any missed by the filter, please e-mail me the URLs of the diffs. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 05:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC) :::Disabling due to a complete lack of hits. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 07:20, 7 September 2010 (UTC) ===Top pages vandalizing bot=== *'''Task''': Detect and filter edits similar to those of ((User|Jarjarbinks10)), ((User|Jetlagorange)), and ((User|Irrypride)) that target Wikipedia's top rated pages (or some such list) inserting large text directing readers to an external website. The website varies, but so far the text has been attributed as large (5em or 10em) and "font-weight:bolder". Might also key off of marginally auto-confirmed editor status (less than 20 edits, less than 10 days) if that is possible. Likely only needs to be active for a few weeks or months. *'''Reason''': Repeated recent attacks. -- [[User:Tcncv|<font style="color:maroon;">'''''Tom&nbsp;N'''''</font>&nbsp;(tcncv)]]&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Tcncv|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Tcncv|contrib]]</small> 02:56, 20 July 2010 (UTC) *We don't have a way of identifying "top rated pages" for an edit filter. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC) *:[[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] is inactive. '''[[User:Hazard-SJ|<span style="border:2px solid black;color:white;padding:1px;background:blue"><font color="white">Hazard-SJ</font></span>]]'''^{[[User talk:Hazard-SJ|&nbsp;<big><font color="blue">'''''Talk'''''</font></big>]]} 13:39, 21 August 2010 (UTC) *::[[Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages]]? '''[[User:Hazard-SJ|<span style="border:2px solid black;color:white;padding:1px;background:blue"><font color="white">Hazard-SJ</font></span>]]'''^{[[User talk:Hazard-SJ|&nbsp;<big><font color="blue">'''''Talk'''''</font></big>]]} 13:41, 21 August 2010 (UTC) *:::The edit filter can't parse a random page to see if some other page is listed on it. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 15:06, 29 December 2010 (UTC) ===Proxy-Connection: keep-alive=== *'''Task''': Check for addition of the exact text string "Proxy-Connection: keep-alive", all pages, and on a match (if implemented) ask user to re-check their edit *'''Reason''': Some unknown technical glitch appears to cause this text to be added, see [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_73#Proxy-Connection: keep-alive|this VPT archive]]. It can cause users to be incorrectly accused of vandalism. Hard to say how frequent this problem is, as recentchange patrollers will catch most; if this does not add any significant overhead, I ask for a bit of a trial, for e.g. 2 weeks, just to see if it picks up enough to warrant the overhead. Open to alternatives too, of course. - <small><span style="border:1px solid;background:#00008B">[[User:Chzz|'''<span style="background:#00008B;color:white">&nbsp;Chzz&nbsp;</span>''']][[User talk:Chzz|<span style="color:#00008B;background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;►&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small> 09:41, 18 July 2010 (UTC) ::Sure, lets see how it works. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 23:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC) :::((Done)) See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/345 here]. Is there any other conditions you can think of to exclude some edits from this filter. Perhaps admins? [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 00:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC) ::::((abf|313)) exempts only bots. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 00:36, 19 July 2010 (UTC) :::::This certainly seems to be helping, in warning people. Some ignore the warning, but in those cases, it helps log it for fixing. <small><span style="border:1px solid;background:#00008B">[[User:Chzz|'''<span style="background:#00008B;color:white">&nbsp;Chzz&nbsp;</span>''']][[User talk:Chzz|<span style="color:#00008B;background-color:yellow;">&nbsp;►&nbsp;</span>]]</span></small> 06:13, 29 August 2010 (UTC) ===Mangled image names=== *'''Task''': Detect changes that turn images into redlinks, or break gallery displays, during spelling fixes or other mass editing. Examples are [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taxidermy&diff=339671557&oldid=337781064] (fixed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taxidermy&diff=prev&oldid=373950366 here]), [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1752_in_art&diff=349344355&oldid=340398113] (fixed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1752_in_art&diff=prev&oldid=372772458 here]), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=York_Minster&diff=344778133&oldid=343814561] (fixed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=York_Minster&diff=prev&oldid=372780049 here]). *'''Reason''': Because some editors seem to not realise that they have broken an image link and this is not always spotted until much later. Either alert them to this, or output a file for others to check. See also [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing red-linked files]]. It might be better to deal with this as a database report, but am hoping people here will have some ideas about this as well. - [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 09:53, 17 July 2010 (UTC) :*This is a pretty tall order, and I don't really think it can be done. We do have [[Special:AbuseFilter/220]], which detects when someone tries to hotlink an external image directly into an article (which is allowed on some non-WMF wikis), but there's no way for the filter to be able to know whether a given link is a redlink or not (it can often detect whether a page has redlinks, but not tell you which ones they are). It would definitely be a good filter if it's possible though. Since these examples are all from automated tools, it might be possible for the makers of the tools to be able to sieve out image names from their find/replace functions. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:09, 17 July 2010 (UTC) ::*Apparently AWB already does that. Can you tell what the automated tools were that the other editors were using? And if the edit filter can detect whether a page has redlinks or not, can it not check before and after an edit, and if the page now has redlinks to ask the editor if they intended to add redlinks? Trouble is, article redlinks are legitimate. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 11:44, 17 July 2010 (UTC) :::*I read something about use of the "old_html" variable being discouraged, because for some reason it apparently consumes more processing power than new_html. The reason I bring that up is because the only way to detect the existence of a redlink is to look at the HTML source of the page, rather than the MediaWiki code, as all links appear the same in raw MediaWiki form. [[Special:AbuseFilter/163]] is the only filter I know of that uses this. As for what tools those editors were using, I dont know. Rogriv seems to be using something automated since I doubt someone would type out summaries like that; the other person may just have been using simple find/replace and doing it by hand. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 21:32, 17 July 2010 (UTC) ::::*Looks like it can't be done, but thanks anyway. The explanation taught me a bit more about this sort of thing! [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 23:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC) ===Possible perspective or POV issues=== *'''Task''': Tag new pages and other edits in the main articlespace by new users that contain one or more occurrences of first-person or second-person pronouns (e.g. "I", "our", "you"). *'''Reason''': The use of any such pronouns outside of properly-cited direct quotations relevant to an article subject is often a red flag for non-NPOV statements, spam, how-to guides, or other inappropriate material. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 23:06, 16 July 2010 (UTC) *This seems like it would have a lot of false positives. I could go for "our", but perhaps not the others. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC) ==="Band" in new page title=== *'''Task''': Flag new pages when the text "band" appears in the title. (And also "song") *'''Reason''': Vandalism/patrolling. Per [[WP:GARAGE]], non-notable band articles often have the word "band" in the title. Flagging articles with "band" would help to find these spam/promo articles easier. &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 14:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC) :((cross))As this stands, it is not a good idea for an edit filter. While many new band pages do not meet the notibility guidelines for bands, we should not go and tag ''every'' new band page. Perhaps a new band page, being created by a very recently created user. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 08:46, 20 July 2010 (UTC) ===No English language letters=== *'''Task''': Tag edits by new users which either 1) create new articles that do not contain English letters, or 2) add large text that do not contain English letters *'''Reason''': These edits are either vandalism or should be added to another Wikipedia language project. A suggested code: article_namespace == 0 &! 'autoconfirmed' in user_groups &(old_size == 0|edit_delta > 500) &! lcase(added_lines) rlike "a-z" - [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 21:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC) :[[Diacritic|Not necessarily]]. However, I have encountered cases in which a new article has been submitted in Arabic to this Wikipedia and it turns out to be advertising. [[User:PleaseStand|''Please'''''Stand''']] ^{[[User talk:PleaseStand|(talk)]]} 04:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC) ::Notice that this is not supposed to catch edits which contain non-English letters, rather it catches edits that do ''not'' contain a ''single'' English letter. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 09:27, 15 July 2010 (UTC) :::created in [[Special:AbuseFilter/346|filter 346]]. In log-only mode for testing. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 09:46, 20 July 2010 (UTC) ===Template spam from 88.105.0.0/16=== *'''Task''': Undelete/reactivate filter 203 *'''Reason''': I fear the template spammer has returned yet again. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/88.105.32.6 these contributions from 88.105.32.6], particularly [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Allodial_title&diff=prev&oldid=372811675 this edit] (presumably in response to my reverting their earlier edit on that same page). Thanks. [[User:Astronaut|Astronaut]] ([[User talk:Astronaut|talk]]) 01:50, 11 July 2010 (UTC) *:((done)) '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 20:36, 11 July 2010 (UTC) ===IP talk page edits adding large amounts of text=== *'''Task''': Stop IP editors adding large amounts of text to talk pages. *'''Reason''': Several editors and myself have been fighting a long, slow vandalism war at [[Talk:Disney's House of Mouse]], against suspected ((User|Bambifan101)) IP socks. These IPs add a huge amount of irrelevant information about every Disney hero and villain ever to this talk page. The text added takes the page from 5,640 bytes to 192,497 bytes. The article itself is longterm protected to stop the same abuses. I'm not at all comfortable with protecting a talk page. It's been suggested on my [[User talk:Ged UK#Talk:Disney's House of Mouse|talk page]] that an edit filter may be a good way to protect, as a rangeblock is not possible. IPs involved this year alone are: ((col-begin)) ((col-2)) :::* ((User|71.136.36.223)) :::* ((User|71.136.36.246)) :::* ((User|71.136.36.31)) :::* ((User|71.136.39.63)) :::* ((User|71.136.40.26)) :::* ((User|71.136.55.81)) :::* ((User|71.136.58.138)) :::* ((User|71.136.69.18)) :::* ((User|71.136.69.8)) :::* ((User|71.136.70.204)) ((col-2)) * ((User|76.178.36.16)) * ((User|76.178.53.41)) * ((User|76.178.53.72)) * ((User|76.93.234.85)) * ((User|98.145.50.179)) * ((User|98.145.51.148)) ((col-end)) I'm open to discussion around the size of edits added that would trigger this, and whether it would be best on this page only (if that's possible) or wider. I'm not aware of this occuring on other pages, but if it is Bambifan101, then I'd be surprised if it was just this one. [[User:Ged UK|<font color="green">Ged</font>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<font color="orange">'''''UK'''''</font>&nbsp;]] 12:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC) :Hello, everyone. My thanks to Ged UK for starting this discussion. I'm one of the several editors who've been fighting this particular vandal alongside Ged UK, although I've only just recently joined the fray. I suggest that the proposed edit filter be set initially at a fairly conservative level to minimize the number of false positives. Perhaps the following conditions, ANDed together, might be sufficient: ::* user_age == 0 '';<-- anonymous IPs'' ::* edit_count <= 20 '';<-- "new" IPs'' ::* action == "edit" '';<-- edits to existing pages'' ::* article_namespace == 1 '';<-- talk pages'' ::* (new_size / old_size) >= 30 & (new_size - old_size) >= 180000 '';<-- really BIG size jumps'' :My apologies if I've mangled the edit filter syntax, but I hope this is close enough to convey the basic gist of what I'm trying to describe. The intent is to catch only relatively new anonymous IP editors adding large amounts of text to existing talk pages. I realize that the term "large" is relative, and admit that my use of 180,000 bytes is rather arbitrary (30 x 6,000, roughly reflective of the current pattern of vandalism); maybe some analysis can be done throughout the namespace to find a more objective value. Cheers! -- [[User:Bgpaulus|Bgpaulus]] ([[User talk:Bgpaulus|talk]]) 14:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC) :::A few comments: It's unfortunate, but a filter that is designed for only one page will still ''run'' (at least the first line of code) on ''every'' page. Even though it will do nothing because it won't meet the initial testing condition, just the fact that it's there still adds to the processing time for every edit on every page. Were it not so, I would have no objections to this filter in its original proposed form. However you've also proposed that it could be set up to run on talk pages in general. If so, I note that blanking of talk pages is not currently disallowed by any filter (although it is tagged), and that there is no way for the edit filter to know whether a given page has been recently blanked, so it's possible that if this filter is set up to run on talk pages in general that a page could be blanked and then an IP trying to revert it would be unable to do so. Lastly, the second line is unnecessary because the edit filter considers all IP's to have an edit count of zero, even if they have actually made thousands of edits from that IP address. I don't mean to sound negative, I just want to point out a few possible drawbacks of this filter. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:16, 15 July 2010 (UTC) ::::Also, it seems that even when creating a new page, the action is classified as "edit" rather than something such as "create". This is not necessarily bad, as the creation of huge talk pages where there previously was nothing is suspicious in itself. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:19, 15 July 2010 (UTC) :::::Thanks Soap. I feared it might be more effort than it's worth, and I think we're pretty well on top of it, but it's something that we might have to revisit. [[User:Ged UK|<font color="green">Ged</font>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<font color="orange">'''''UK'''''</font>&nbsp;]] 11:42, 28 July 2010 (UTC) ===Page blanker=== *'''Task''': Disallow blanking of pages or massive content removal from the range 112.203.0.0/16 *'''Reason''': This is a persistent vandal that keeps blanking pages, going on for about two months now. Single blocks are not effective and there are too many pages to protect. Rangeblock is also not feasible as this is a highly active range. :Some IPs used are: ::*((user|112.203.149.31)) ::*((user|112.203.156.2)) ::*((user|112.203.201.221)) ::*((user|112.203.202.156)) ::*((user|112.203.216.2)) There's many others, but it's too long to list. <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px"><b><font color="#4682B4">[[User:Elockid|<big>E</big>lockid]]</font></b></span> ^{(<font color="#99BADD">[[User talk:Elockid|Talk]]</font>)} 20:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC) *There's already a filter against page blanking. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 10:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC) ===Chinese Wooden...=== *'''Task''': Flag a new page named "Chinese Wooden..." something. *'''Reason''': A page named '''Chinese Wooden Pony Torture''' was created and deleted via discussion. A new page was created today, called '''Chinese Wooden Donkey'''. These pages were almost identical, and both vandalism. I realize this is a one-off request, but if I hadn't remembered the first one, the second one may not have been caught. Could a tag be added that finds pages with this word pattern? &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 19:17, 29 June 2010 (UTC) ::I don't thin k so - the title black list is probably a better corse to take for this problem. And the second page is [[Chinese wooden donkey|Chinese '''w'''ooden '''d'''onkey]] - the capitalization of all but the forst letter is important. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 13:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC) ::: What's the title blacklist process? I haven't heard of it. &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 14:37, 13 July 2010 (UTC) :::: [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]]; information is on the talk page. [[User:PleaseStand|''Please'''''Stand''']] ^{[[User talk:PleaseStand|(talk)]]} 04:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC) ===Appending to the end=== *'''Task''': Disallow appending plain text to the very end of an article or category, after categories/interwikis. Check IPs and new editors. Here's [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Diamond_mines_in_Lesotho&diff=357028148&oldid=257628947 the example edit] (taken from the section "very large text" below). *'''Reason''': Prevent such incorrect edits. The warning text should instruct an editor to move the text above, to the appropriate place in wikitext; if edit is made on category page then explain that the correct way to categorize an article is to add <nowiki>[[category:xx]]</nowiki> to the article itself ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Xbox_360-only_games&diff=370095472&oldid=359926465 example edit 1], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Water_polo_players_at_the_2002_Commonwealth_Games&diff=370225157&oldid=281372278 example edit 2]). I have this filter in a another project and it triggers 20+ times a day. I can provide the code if someone is willing to create a testing filter and see how it works. — [[user:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 23:57, 26 June 2010 (UTC) :Looks reasonable, although I don't see wh you can't publish the code publicly. Which other wiki project is this from which filter is it there? [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 13:03, 13 July 2010 (UTC) ::I did not want to spend time explaining if nobody was interested. The code can be found at [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/74?uselang=en ru:Special:AbuseFilter/74], the suggested code for enwiki is this: <pre> action == 'edit' &! 'autoconfirmed' in user_groups & (article_namespace == 0 | article_namespace == 14) & removed_lines rlike '^\[\[([a-z]{2,3}|Category):.*\]\] *$' & strpos(added_lines, removed_lines) == 0 & ( add := substr(added_lines, length(removed_lines)); substr(new_wikitext, length(new_wikitext)+1-length(add)) + '\n' == add &! contains_any(add,'((','[[') ) </pre> ::The code has to be this complicated because of the way the filter works when text is appended to the end, see [[mediazilla:20310]], my comment #4. The last unchanged line is included in both removed_lines and added_lines, for example see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Xbox_360-only_games&diff=370095472&oldid=359926465 this edit] and these variables [[Special:AbuseFilter/examine/380905123|in the filter]]. — [[user:Alex Smotrov|AlexSm]] 14:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC) ::: Very good filter, we should have it. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 19:11, 13 July 2010 (UTC) ::::[[Special:AbuseFilter/351|Filter 351]]. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 12:11, 11 August 2010 (UTC) ===User talk page trolling in German=== *'''Task''': Disallow additions of offensive/disruptive German words or phrases at any user talk page by new users. An example of what this filter should stop can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gnu1742&diff=prev&oldid=370216222 here]. *'''Reason''': To stop further trolling at user talk pages by a certain long-term cross-wiki vandal who uses a German phrase (often an offensive or disruptive one) as the username for each new sockpuppet. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 07:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC) :I certainly don't speak German, so perhaps you could help me out by making a list of blatantly bad German words, and their translations. That way I could add the words to one of our existent filters. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 13:40, 26 June 2010 (UTC) ::I could help, but German is a very ... expressive ... language in some ways, and we'd need a pretty long list. The latest message is something like "(username) ...'s diaper is full", which is probably not something we can predict, but on the other hand it also has the word 'dreckschwanz' which is Dreck "dirt" + Schwanz "penis" ... use your imagination. Also, there's the problem that edit filter logs cannot yet be oversighted. The last time I checked, we were automatically oversighting all of this "Diesel" guy's vandalism, but on the other hand, it seems we're not doing that anymore, at least not regularly, if there is a diff that you can link to. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 14:48, 26 June 2010 (UTC) :::Oh, I just realized the diaper part was in his username. Still, that would be a good way to patch the SUL loophole that is allowing these usernames to be created in the first place. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 15:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC) ===New user adding ''very'' large text to typically small pages=== *'''Task''': New user adding ''very'' large text to typically small pages like categories, files, dabs, redirects. *'''Action''': tag and possibly warn. - [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 05:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC) :Could you provide an example, and try to define what you mean by "very large" (number of characters added) ? [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 13:41, 26 June 2010 (UTC) ::This is an example [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Diamond_mines_in_Lesotho&diff=357028148&oldid=257628947]. "Very large": umm, I'm not sure but I think > 5000 bytes to be in the safe side (in my example the size change was 2601 bytes). [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 14:23, 26 June 2010 (UTC) :::This sounds a little bit like the issue we're facing on [[talk:Disney's House of Mouse]], documented [[User talk:Ged UK#Talk:Disney's House of Mouse|here]] and filter requested [[Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested#IP talk page edits adding large amounts of text|here]]. Perhaps it's possible to address both issues with one filter? Cheers! -- [[User:Bgpaulus|Bgpaulus]] ([[User talk:Bgpaulus|talk]]) 15:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC) ::::"Perhaps it's possible to address both issues with one filter?" The issue I see here is that article talk pages are not typically small, and an IP user undoing blanking by a vandal could add very large text. [[User:Sole Soul|Sole Soul]] ([[User talk:Sole Soul|talk]]) 17:58, 14 July 2010 (UTC) ===Controversial BLP categorization=== *'''Task''': If a new user attempts to add a possibly controversial or negative category tag such as <nowiki>[[Category:LGBT sportspeople]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Category:Criminals]]</nowiki> to an article that contains the <nowiki>[[Category:Living people]]</nowiki> tag, prompt user to confirm if such category addition is appropriate. If user chooses to go ahead, tag the edit. *'''Reason''': Inappropriate addition of such a category tag to a BLP page constitutes a form of BLP violation. Depending on the particular category tag that is abused, such an edit could also be tantamount to libel. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 18:28, 17 June 2010 (UTC) ::Unfortunately, I thinkj the list of relevant categories here would be too big to handle. There are other relevant categories (such as [[:Category:Arsonists]] and [[:Category:LGBT rugby union players]], both parts of the cateogry trees you mentioned, which would need separate entries). [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 13:08, 13 July 2010 (UTC) ===Redirects becoming undirected=== *'''Task''': Provide a tag that flags an edit as something like "redirect becoming article". *'''Reason''': These types of edits are essentially new-page edits, but they go undetected. Recently someone changed [[Emancipator]] to be a band page (from a redirect to [[Emancipation]]), but this wasn't caught. A flag like this could be helpful. &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 13:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC) ::((Done)) in log-only mode for now. See [[Special:AbuseFilter/342|filter 342]]. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 13:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC) :::I have a question about the specific intent of the filter at [[WT:EF#Filter 342]]. [[User:PleaseStand|''Please'''''Stand''']] ^{[[User talk:PleaseStand|(talk)]]} 04:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC) ===Unsourced article creation=== *'''Task''': Warn a new user who attempts to create a new article that does not cite any references whatsoever; if the user insists on creating such a page anyway, tag the creation. If possible, this filter should also apply to [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|AFC]] submissions. Note that pages created as redirects should be exempted. *'''Reason''': The absence of references may be a red flag for notability issues. Thus, unsourced articles have a high risk of being marked for deletion (possibly of the speedy type). Also, the absence of sourcing is generally considered grounds for automatic rejection of AFC submissions. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 19:24, 14 June 2010 (UTC) :I don't think this is possible. The edit filter can only catch purely mechanical things like an absence of <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags, rather than semantic problems like a lack of sourcing. An article without formatted references might still have references, and an article with <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags might not have valid references. If an editor makes a good-faith effort to add sourcing, but they happen not to understand our grossly overcomplicated referencing system, then we should thank them and fix the references - not scream an edit filter warning at them because the filter couldn't detect their efforts. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 00:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC) ===Replacement of BLP infobox image=== *'''Task''': Tag all edits that change the filenames of images in the infoboxes of BLP articles regardless of whether such edits are made by (auto)confirmed users. *'''Reason''': This filter would aid in the detection of image-related BLP vandalism, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Reid&action=historysubmit&diff=326234231&oldid=326078520 this edit]. In addition, this filter would aid non-free image patrollers, as non-free images of BLP subjects generally do not qualify for fair use; in fact, I have actually caught some users replacing free images of BLP subjects with higher quality but non-free alternatives. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 02:09, 12 June 2010 (UTC) *:Great idea. However, I'm not sure it's possible for the filter software to be able to use variables in the sense of identifying a particular substring as an image name, and then checking to see if that same substring is the same or not in the new diff. I notice that not every infobox has the image template as "image", but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. I think this is definitely possible, but it may be rather clumsy and have a lot of false positives, so it would be best, unless I'm wrong about the software, for it to be a tag-only filter (which I think is what you were planning on anyway). '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 12:12, 12 June 2010 (UTC) ===Redirect vandalism=== *'''Task''': This filter is to catch and tag inappropriate redirects to articles and user pages, such as redirecting a page to articles like [[penis]], [[vagina]], and [[fuck]]. *'''Reason''': This filter would be useful to help catch vandalism. - ~[[User:NSD|'''<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:green; font-family:trebuchet ms">Nerdy<span style="color:#0F0">Science</span><span style="color:#8d7">Dude</span></span>''']] ([[User:NSD/t|✉]] • [[Special:Contributions/NerdyScienceDude|✐]]) 18:29, 11 June 2010 (UTC) *:This sounds like a good idea, and it would be very easy to do. We wouldn't even need a new filter, since we used to do this on filter ((abf|12)) in the past. It was disabled due to false positives, in particular a legitimate attempt to redirect a page to a title with the name McManus in it (contains "anus"). But I don't think that adding a small list of exceptions for words like McManus would greatly slow down the filter, and if we made the change we'd be able to remove one condition anyway. So I endorse this, but I endorse it with caution and I think it's best to wait for others to comment as they may disagree. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 15:07, 12 June 2010 (UTC) ===Targeted editor death threats=== *'''Task''': Block and log edits by IP editors which match a significant number of the following words: <snip> *'''Reason''': Block death threats made against regular contributor by high volume IP hopping vandal. They have used a large number of IPs to make similar threats on AN and ANI at least in last 24 hrs. :I have looked into creating filters before but not done so and don't want to screw it up. - [[User:Georgewilliamherbert|Georgewilliamherbert]] ([[User talk:Georgewilliamherbert|talk]]) 23:59, 7 June 2010 (UTC) :<s>Added to [[Special:AbuseFilter/58|filter 58]].</s> [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 05:55, 8 June 2010 (UTC) ::Followup: functionaries have requested that this be removed from the filter, as all hits are for material needing oversight. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 18:24, 10 June 2010 (UTC) :::Removed the text per [[WP:LTA/Grawp|DENY]], as should be done in all circumstances where 4chan or JarlaxleArtemis is discussed. —<font color="228B22">''[[User:Jéské Couriano|Jeremy]]''</font> <font color="00008B"><small>^{([[User talk:Jéské Couriano|v^_^v]] [[Special:Contributions/Jéské Couriano|Hyper Combo K.O.!]])}</small></font> 20:59, 15 December 2010 (UTC) ===Deleted page recreation=== *'''Task''': Tag newly-created articles that were once deleted. *'''Reason''': Again, helps with vandalism patrolling &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 17:28, 2 June 2010 (UTC) ::I don't believe this is technologically possible right now, because the edit filter is unaware of whether a page has been deleted or not, and it can't search the deletion log either. I agree though that it would be a good idea, so if I'm wrong about it being impossible I would like to see it happen. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 18:17, 2 June 2010 (UTC) *((declined|Technically impossible)). [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 20:48, 5 June 2010 (UTC) ===New editor pages=== *'''Task''': Tag articles with a flag like "page created by new editor". This would happen when the editor of the new article has fewer than, say, 10 edits. This might be valuable for all edits, not just page-creation. *'''Reason''': A huge majority of vandalism, especially in the terms of new pages, is created by users with zero edits (or only a few more). This would help patrollers see these types of pages quicker. &mdash; <small>[[User:Timneu22|Timneu22]]<span style="font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;·</span>&#32; [[User talk:Timneu22|talk]]</small> 16:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC) *((added|Technically possible)). [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 20:48, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Could be done like this: <pre> !"autoconfirmed" in user_groups & article_articleid == 0 & article_namespace == 0 </pre> There might be a better way though. - [[w:User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[w:User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 13:22, 22 August 2010 (UTC) ===Removal of good & featured page templates=== *'''Task''': Notify non-autoconfirmed users about removing any good or featured page templates, including those in articles, portals and lists etcetra. *'''Reason''': Removing this template also removes the category related to it; for example: Removing the featured article template also takes that article out of Category:Featured articles, and so on. - [[User:Minimac|<font color="#002BB8">Minima</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Minimac|<font color="#002BB8">c</font>]]<font color="#002BB8"></font> ([[User talk:Minimac|<font color="#002BB8">talk</font>]]) 13:23, 31 May 2010 (UTC) :Is something like this terribly common? [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 05:56, 8 June 2010 (UTC) Could be done like this: <pre> !"autoconfirmed" in user_groups & contains_any(removed_lines, "((Featured article))", "((Featuredarticle))", "((FeaturedSmall))", "((Good article))", "((GA article))", "((Good Article))", "((Featured portal))", "((Featured list))") & !contains_any(added_lines, "((Featured article))", "((Featuredarticle))", "((FeaturedSmall))", "((Good article))", "((GA article))", "((Good Article))", "((Featured portal))", "((Featured list))") </pre> Not sure it's something very common though, but it might be worth testing to see if it does happen sometimes. - [[w:User:EdoDodo|<font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">EdoDodo</font>]] ^{[[w:User talk:EdoDodo|<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#33dd44">talk</span>]]} 13:30, 22 August 2010 (UTC) :Tested; so far, all such cases were caught by otherfilters (page blanking, removing all categories, etc.). Updated the test filter; if there are no more results, then I'll close this as not done due to lack of hits., [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC) ::Only 3 edits in 4 days; 1 of these edits was caught by yet an other filter (New user removing references), and one of the others had an other aspect of vandalism in it. I think there;s no need for this filter. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 09:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC) ===Targeted vandalism by users with disruptive usernames=== *'''Task''': If a new user registers with a username that clearly appears to attack some subject, such as usernames of the form "(insert subject name) sux" or "Ihate(insert subject name)", and if said user attempts to edit an article about that particular subject, disallow the edit attempt. Examples of what this filter should stop can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sabean_sucks here]. *'''Reason''': Out of all the edits that I've seen which met both of the above conditions, 100% of them were personal attacks, BLP violations of a defamatory nature, or simply pure vandalism. - --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 00:13, 21 May 2010 (UTC) ::How is this better than using the [[WP:UAA]] bots, which flag usernames based on [[User:HBC_NameWatcherBot/Blacklist|a regex blacklist]]. What additional benefits would using an edit filter have? [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 01:28, 21 May 2010 (UTC) :::Also, note that '''sucks''' and '''sux''' are already blacklisted words, if they are in new user names. It is set so that the bot waits until the user edits to report it. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 01:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC) ::::Actually, we do have a filter, [[Special:AbuseFilter/102]], that blocks usernames, though I can't see it anymore because it's a private filter. But Im pretty sure it hasnt changed greatly since I resigned. In theory we could fulfill the request, in practice though it would be pretty difficult, since there'd be three steps to it ... trapping the username in such a way that it is allowed to edit (because probably at least a few legitimate names will have words like 'suck' in them), looking at the edits it does make to see if they qualify, and then disallowing those edits. In fact, I'm not actually sure it's possible to do that since as far as i know one edit filter cannot be used to pass information to another edit filter. We would need a separate filter unrelated to the existing username filter. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 01:45, 21 May 2010 (UTC) *((declined)), already served by the UAA bots. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 20:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC) ===Jamesbreadth=== *'''Task''': Block the insertion of the term "Jamesbreadth" into articles *'''Reason''': IP vandalism - see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brigadier&action=historysubmit&diff=363222129&oldid=363219135 this edit] for an example - [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 16:34, 20 May 2010 (UTC) :This is [[User:Swamilive|Swamilive]]. Jamesbreadth isn't the only phrase that needs to be blocked though. See also the edits on [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rangecontribs/index.php?type=range&ips=216.211.52.0%2F22&limit=150 216.211.52.0/22] which is currently blocked. <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px"><b><font color="#4682B4">[[User:Elockid|<big>E</big>lockid]]</font></b></span> ^{(<font color="#99BADD">[[User talk:Elockid|Talk]]</font>)} 16:57, 20 May 2010 (UTC) *Can we get a full list please and they can be integrated into one of the other filters which disallows words that'll never be useful. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 20:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC) ===Zalgo=== *'''Task''' A filter to trap edits like those of the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Zalgo&action=history this page] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Giftiger_wunsch/Sandbox1&diff=362526778&oldid=362296020 this edit] and elsewhere, inserting huge chunks of unreadable and often vertical repeated text which are difficult to revert for those without rollback since the screen itself is blanked (similar to the "fixed position" vandalism) and because the amount of text is so large that any non-automated reversion will take a long time to load. '''NOTE''': loading these diffs will be slow on most PC's; I use an add-on for Firefox to help. *'''Reason''' Vandalism. Could track strings such as "ͯ̋̇ͯ̎ͮ̕" which are repeated many times throughout the text and unlikely to ever appear in legitimate edits, or go for very large additions of any type, or adapt the fixed position filter (if it still is on). Note: I don't believe [[user:Zalgo]] himself is responsible for this vandalism, as he has not edited in over a year, though he created a page called [[Zalgo]] that an admin might want to see (unless it too is unreadable). '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 00:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC) ::Note, the "Zalgo" text is likely to be the output of a script on [http://www.eeemo.net/ this page], in case that helps to filter this stuff. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 02:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC) :::Comment: I think this doesnt really need a whole filter of its own; it could just be a single string or condition within one of the existing vandalism filters. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 12:42, 18 May 2010 (UTC) ::::((cross)) '''Withdrawing''' my own request for now; I think it would be better to just block outrageously huge changes in page size (e.g. a million bytes or above) and hold off on dedicated "zalgo" code for now since it seems to be rare. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 21:45, 29 May 2010 (UTC) ===Repeated high-speed white-space edits by unconfirmed user=== *'''Task''': Take a look at [[Special:Contributions/Vauhtimato]]. He's done essentially null edits, adding whitespace only, to get enough edits in so he can then cause trouble. *'''Reason''': Vandal fighting. - [[User:Jpgordon|jpgordon]]^{<small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|::==( o )]]</small>} 23:39, 17 April 2010 (UTC) *Agree that this is worth addressing. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 14:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC) *:Unfortunately this is practically impossible to detect. We don't get to detect what's been added or removed directly, only the lines that have been affected. I do have an idea of how to detect it (specifically, <code>rmwhitespace(added_lines) == rmwhitespace(removed_lines)</code>) but unfortunately this would be extremely costly to run and would slow down the wiki to the point where the filter would not be worth it. Unless anyone has any better ideas, I don't really see a good way to implement this right now, despite the fact that it is a good idea. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 20:01, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :::((ec))Any vandal that is smart enough to do this - and I have seen an increase in it recently - would be smart enough to switch to single words or punctuation instead. If this is ever implemented, it should probably be tag-only so as not to teach vandals how to avoid scrutiny. <span style="white-space:nowrap">— [[User:Gavia immer|Gavia immer]] ([[User talk:Gavia immer|talk]])</span> 20:11, 20 April 2010 (UTC) ::Can there be an initial light-weight test for "non-autoconfirmed user"? That would limit the costly test to those who get the vandal benefit. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 20:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :::It's already done in almost all filters, but still, you would be surprised how many edits are not by autoconfirmed users. It would still be a heavyweight filter. The problem really is in the string manipulation, which is particularly slow. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 00:01, 21 April 2010 (UTC) ::::::Yeah, that's pricey. The example I showed was an easy detect -- all one-liners adding whitespace at the end of a line. Tagging that would be a good quiet signal for this particular troublemaker. --[[User:Jpgordon|jpgordon]]^{<small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|::==( o )]]</small>} 23:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC) ::::Seeing as this type of issue is aimed only at getting an account autoconfirmed, it would seem that it is perfectly reasonable to target non-autoconfirmed only. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 12:59, 21 April 2010 (UTC) :::::Sorry if I wasn't clear; I was trying to point out that I think that there might still be too much of a performance hit even when we restricted it to non-autoconfirmed edits only. However, since we've been able to pull down the number of running filters back to a reasonable point now, I'm ok with giving my originally suggested idea a trial. I added a few extra clauses to help optimize it. It's currently running log only as filter [[Special:AbuseFilter/322|322]]. [[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 04:35, 26 April 2010 (UTC) ::::::We're encountering a false positive I hadn't considered: Users moving content from one location to another in the article. Right now, I can't think of a way to resolve this due to limitations in the filter. However, I have an alternate idea: It is likely that an editor that's trying to do this to get to autoconfirmed will do these types of edits in rapid succession. Accordingly, I'm tightening down the filter to include a "throttle" condition to see if that makes it more accurate. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 04:50, 26 April 2010 (UTC) :::::::With the optimizations I've made, I see no significant performance hit by this filter. However, since I have addressed the false positives with the throttle and narrowed conditions, we have yet to see a hit on this filter. I think it's best to leave it run about a week to see if it picks anything up, then make the decision over whether it should be kept then. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 08:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC) ::::::::Concur; we'll see how it turns out. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 08:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC) ((od))This filter has yet to do anything except for log. In other words, nobody has tripped the 'Disallow' function of the filter. That might be our sign that: # This filter is not useful. # We are not being strict enough with our throttle. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 13:55, 16 May 2010 (UTC) *It's after tripping now. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 20:51, 5 June 2010 (UTC) ::The real fix for this one is to mod MediaWiki to strip trailing spaces from lines on save. Only pathological cases need a trailing space, and they are easy to fix. ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', 17:44, 4 September 2010 (UTC). ===V filter - preliminary request=== Can we trial a filter that detects solely the addition of the letter "v" or "V"? This is likely due to someone mis-keying a paste, I'm inclined to think it will not be worth the cost/benefit of implementing, but it seems worth exploring. ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', 17:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC). :The filter doesn't support custom variables, so the only thing I could think of would be to track <code>removed_lines in added_lines</code> and then screen out everything that isnt a one- or two-byte edit. But I would hope that most people doing this would realize their mistake and quickly fix it. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 17:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC) ::Oh well. It's just I stopped myself doing this about 7 times that day. When I get more hard disk space I'll see if I can find how often this happens. ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', 00:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC). :::How about old_size+1= new_size and (count("V",removed_lines) +1 = count("V",added_lines) or count("v",removed_lines) +1 = count("v",added_lines)) ::: I have no idea how many false positives this would generate, but it is simple and could be run for half an hour. ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', 00:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC). ===Was here=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laurie_Halse_Anderson&action=historysubmit&diff=384832978&oldid=384832787 EG] I thought we checked for this? ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'', 00:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC). :Yeah. I guess it doesn't. But anyways, I completely agree with this suggestion. [[User:Endofskull|Endofskull]] ([[User talk:Endofskull|talk]]) 00:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC) ::Just for the record: DASHBotAV Checks for this. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 22:33, 14 October 2010 (UTC) :::Correction, ''checked'' for that. I'd bet [[User:ClueBot NG|ClueBot NG]]'s bayseian filter picks up on it though. [[User:Tim1357|<font color="Blue" face="Arial" >Tim]]</font><font color="Red" face="Optima" >[[Special:Contributions/Tim1357|1357]]</font> ^{<font face="Times new roman" size = 2 >[[User talk:Tim1357|talk]]</font>} 23:11, 6 March 2011 (UTC) ===N-word Filter=== *'''Task''': Disallow and warn any nonconfirmed users who insert the "n-word" in either the 5 of 6 letter forms. *'''Reason''': This [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ebonics&diff=next&oldid=391159036 edit] and about 50 more I each day demonstrate to me that non-autoconfirmed users cannot be trusted with the freedom to use this word "constuctively." Yes, there are legitimate uses of the word, such as pages on historical discrimination, but the vast number of uses are vandalism. The legitimate uses can be put it by autoconfirmed users. :BTW, if there already is a filter that supposedly does this, it wasn't working in the past few days. - <span style="text-shadow:#4F3090 0.10em 0.10em 0.10em"><font color="black">[[User:Sven Manguard|Sven Manguard]]</font> _{<span style="text-shadow:#ffd700 0.14em 0.14em 0.14em"><font color="black">[[User talk:Sven Manguard|'''Talk''']]</font>}</span> 02:56, 17 October 2010 (UTC) ::We have filter 9, which tracks things like [[Special:AbuseLog/3519683|this]]. But it's not set to disallow because it would have a lot of false positives. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 12:04, 17 October 2010 (UTC) ===Rickrolling, Wikipedia style=== *'''Task''': Edit filter to note (with exceptions for pages where such a link does legitimately belong) edits which add the text "Rick Astley" to an aritcle. *'''Reason''': I don't know if this is a one-time gag or an emerging epidemic that Wikipedia's going to need to start watching out for long-term, but take a look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zombie_tag&oldid=393500379 this edit]. I don't think we should blacklist the phrase entirely, since there will always be some articles where a link to Astley's article is warranted and legitimate — but to prevent rickrolling from becoming a Wikipedia phenomenon as well, I think there should be a filter in place to at least flag such edits for double-checking. An alternative might be to explicitly blacklist the phrase "Rick Astley" if and when it's followed by unrelated pipetext. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 19:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC) *I think [[WP:RBI]] will suffice for this. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 15:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC) ==Completed requests== ===Black Baboon=== *'''Task''' to flag up the addition of the phrase "Black Baboon" (with and without caps) to any article. IP vandal on multiple IP addresses. *'''Reason''' racist vandalism to various Formula 1 related articles, replacing Lewis Hamilton with "Black Baboon". Please see [[WP:AIN#Racist vandalism]]. [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 16:18, 27 March 2010 (UTC) *:I've never created a filter before, but I'd like to take a shot at this :). I'll let you know how it goes. - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 16:23, 27 March 2010 (UTC) *:P.S. I think it would be better to make sure that "Lewis Hamilton" was replaced by "Black Baboon", rather than just preventing "Black Baboon". I'm also not sure this is happening often enough to justify a filter, but we'll see what an admin more experienced in this area says...? - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 16:25, 27 March 2010 (UTC) ::I wasn't asking for the phrase to be banned, only flagged up. There may be a legitimate use when discussing baboons (not my area of expertise). [[User:Mjroots2|Mjroots2]] ([[User talk:Mjroots2|talk]]) 18:07, 27 March 2010 (UTC) :::Well, I've created [[Special:AbuseFilter/311]] as log only for now, to see if this is happening often enough (hopefully I've done this right). I've left in the check for Lewis Hamilton, since baboons ''are'' real animals, and can be black, - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 19:39, 27 March 2010 (UTC) ::::It looked right to me, but I made a few changes to optimize it. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 23:56, 27 March 2010 (UTC) :::::Thanks for the creation of the filter. In this case, it's not a question of how often it occurs. The vandalism is sporadic, but it is important that it is flagged up when it happens so that the IPs can then be blocked, and the vandalism reverted. [[User:Mjroots2|Mjroots2]] ([[User talk:Mjroots2|talk]]) 09:54, 28 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::Shouldn't [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Chinese_Grand_Prix&curid=21958115&diff=352478195&oldid=352476638 this], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Chinese_Grand_Prix&curid=21958115&diff=352479869&oldid=352478195 this] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Chinese_Grand_Prix&curid=21958115&diff=352482707&oldid=352479958 and this] have tripped the filter? [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 12:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC) :::::::((Fixed)) - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 13:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::::I've just looked at the filter code, and I'm not sure about two of the tests. These are:<pre>count("Hamilton",removed_lines) > 1 & count("Black Baboon",added_lines) > 1</pre> which I think should be <pre>count("Hamilton",removed_lines) >= 1 & count("Black Baboon",added_lines) >= 1</pre> because otherwise it'll only pick up on ''two'' or more changes, rather than one or more, which I believe to be the intention. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#d30000; background:#ffeeee">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::::::((fixed)) - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 07:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC) :::::::::The edit filter log indicates that the filter picked up [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Chinese_Grand_Prix&diff=352898065&oldid=352869144 this edit] at 16:00, March 30, 2010 (and earlier ones at 12:33 and 12:17) but didn't pick up [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Chinese_Grand_Prix&diff=352901818&oldid=352901625 this one] at 16:35, March 30, 2010. Any idea why? [[User:DH85868993|DH85868993]] ([[User talk:DH85868993|talk]]) 07:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::::::Hmm.. No idea why that doesn't show up in the log, when testing the filter it matches that edit, - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 07:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC) :::::::::::Also, is 4 edits in just over 4 hours sufficient justification to change the filter to Disallow the edits rather than just Log them? [[User:DH85868993|DH85868993]] ([[User talk:DH85868993|talk]]) 07:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::::::::I don't think we need to disallow the edits. It's not like there are so many that it is a huge problem. I'm quite content with them being flagged so that the IPs can then be reverted and blocked. Of course, if a bot could handle this task it would be better, but I don't know if such a thing would be allowable. [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 11:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC) :::::::::::::Can we please have the edit filter changed to disallow the edits? We've had to revert 8 edits to the same article in the past 3 hours. Every time we get his IP address blocked, he just changes to another one. Thanks. [[User:DH85868993|DH85868993]] ([[User talk:DH85868993|talk]]) 13:19, 7 April 2010 (UTC) ((done)) I don't see any reason to not set this to disallow. - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]^{[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]} ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 13:29, 7 April 2010 (UTC) :Can the filter be tweaked to pick up edits like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2007_French_Grand_Prix&action=historysubmit&diff=355070077&oldid=354967434 this one] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008_Formula_One_season&diff=prev&oldid=355329770 this one] as well? Thanks. [[User:DH85868993|DH85868993]] ([[User talk:DH85868993|talk]]) 03:29, 10 April 2010 (UTC) ::[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008_Formula_One_season&action=historysubmit&diff=355360735&oldid=355341236 This edit] didn't trip the filter either. Maybe we will need a blanket ban of the phrase "Black Baboon" being added to any article by anyone other than an admin or higher. [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 18:24, 11 April 2010 (UTC) :::If it's possible, a ban on the use of this phrase by unregistered editors would probably suffice. This abuse is solely by an indefinitely blocked editor using multiple IPs. [[User:Bretonbanquet|Bretonbanquet]] ([[User talk:Bretonbanquet|talk]]) 19:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC) ::::We could try that, but the vandals are now registering accounts. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Hamilton&diff=prev&oldid=355542753 this edit] for which I indeffed the vandal. [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 14:37, 12 April 2010 (UTC) ===your mom=== *'''Task''': Search for the insertion of the phrase "your mom" into articles. Applies to all pages. *'''Reason''': It's a very common form of vandalism but no bot seems to pick it up. - [[User:Nunquam Dormio|Nunquam Dormio]] ([[User talk:Nunquam Dormio|talk]]) 12:30, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :*I think that this has been asked for in the past, and possibly even run for a while, but that it was disabled due to false positives (as "your mom" can have many legitimate uses). '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 13:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :**...such as...what? --[[User:Jpgordon|jpgordon]]^{<small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|::==( o )]]</small>} 15:49, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :::Quotes, probably. I'm going based off of [[Wikipedia_talk:Edit_filter/Archive_4#I.27m_surprised_the_following_edit_didn.27t_trigger_a_filter|this thread]], though, not any actual experience (that thread was before I was involved with edit filters in any way). '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 15:55, 20 April 2010 (UTC) ::::If a famous person has said something quotable, they'd almost always be saying "my mom". There might be one or two instances where they'd say "your mom", but these would be outnumbered 10.000:1 by this childlike vandalism. [[User:Nunquam Dormio|Nunquam Dormio]] ([[User talk:Nunquam Dormio|talk]]) 19:58, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :::::Well a mainspace search shows about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=%22your+mom%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search 200 pages] that have legitimate uses of "your mom" and about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=%22your+mother%22&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&title=Special%3ASearch&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced+search 2000] that have "your mother". Still I could see a good use for a filter for this, I just don't think it should be set to disallow. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 21:46, 20 April 2010 (UTC) :::::::I really couldn't help but laugh while following those links. Just what ''is'' it about "your mom" that seems intrinsically funny? --[[User:Jpgordon|jpgordon]]^{<small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|::==( o )]]</small>} 23:24, 20 April 2010 (UTC) No 19 in the search list was [[Food distribution]], which had the text "i did your mom ha ha ha ha" until I changed it. It seems to me that most additions of "your mom" will be vandalism and it should be flagged up in some way. [[User:Nunquam Dormio|Nunquam Dormio]] ([[User talk:Nunquam Dormio|talk]]) 06:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC) :[[Special:AbuseFilter/320]] is now running in log-only mode. If it works, I'll add it to <s>your mom</s> [[Special:AbuseFilter/260]]. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 06:33, 21 April 2010 (UTC) ::I withdraw my objections since this is picking up on average about one hit every 20 minutes and there are no false positives so far. It can always be changed later if the false positives do become a problem. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 16:34, 21 April 2010 (UTC) :::Actually, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&details=2554442 this] is a false positive, though one that would have been prevented if the immediately preceding edit to the article it is a talk page of had been blocked. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 17:24, 21 April 2010 (UTC) your mom no longer has any objections. Just saying. --[[User:Jpgordon|jpgordon]]^{<small>[[User talk:Jpgordon|::==( o )]]</small>} 06:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC) :((done)) Confirmed that this has been merged into [[Special:AbuseFilter/260|260]] so marking this as done. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 04:30, 26 April 2010 (UTC) ===Images and unblocks=== *'''Task''' Filter and disallow the adding of an unblock template to a talk page which includes an image. *'''Reason''' A troll creating unblock requests including graphic sexual images ([[User talk:Teaboy5]], [[User talk:RabAllanReturns]], [[User talk:JamesAllansHole]] are the latest few), plus I've never seen an unblock request with a legitimately used image, its always trolling somehow--[[User:Jac16888|<font color="Blue">Jac</font><font color="Green">16888</font>]][[User talk:Jac16888|^{<font color="red">Talk</font>}]] 11:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC) *::Nawlin Wiki has already created a filter for this purpose, though at present it is specific to going after "Blu Aardvark", and may need to be expanded in the future if other users start doing this. [[Special:AbuseFilter/301]] '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 12:31, 8 March 2010 (UTC) *:::((already done)) per [[User:Soap|Soap]] --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 06:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC) ===Template spam from 88.105.0.0/16=== *'''Task''': Undelete/reactivate filter 203 *'''Reason''': I fear the template spammer has returned. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/88.105.45.248 these contributions from 88.105.45.248]. - [[User:Astronaut|Astronaut]] ([[User talk:Astronaut|talk]]) 00:30, 27 February 2010 (UTC) **((done)) <small>([[User:X!|<span style="color:gray">X!</span>]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:X!|<span style="color:gray">talk</span>]]) &nbsp;·&nbsp;[[Swatch Internet Time|@078]] &nbsp;·&nbsp;</small> 00:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC) ===Remove Skype Formatting=== *'''Task''': Edit filter should look for known Skype formatting text (such as '''begin_of_the_skype_highlighting''' and '''end_of_the_skype_highlighting''') and warn/prevent the user from saving the edit. *'''Reason''': Per [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_73#Skype_formatting_-_topic_reopened this discussion] it appears that Skype, when installed with certain browsers, is incorporating Skype formatting commands into the edit window which subsequently get saved. About 100 known occurrences since mid-Feb. - [[User talk:7|<span style="background:#acf;padding:4px;color:white;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em">&nbsp;'''7'''&nbsp;</span>]] 02:24, 28 March 2010 (UTC) **Propose the warning text: "You are a user of a Skype extension for FireFox. This extension has a bug that at times inserts '''begin_of_the_skype_highlighting''' and '''end_of_the_skype_highlighting''' into the editfield and this problem was detected in this edit. Please remove these texts and you might want to [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes#Disable_all_extensions disable the Skype extension]." —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:30, 28 March 2010 (UTC) ***Something like that works for me. Maybe my adaptation of your version is too verbose, but for less technical users this may be easier to understand: ''"It appears that you are a user of a Skype extension for FireFox. This extension has a known bug that at times inserts extra text into editable fields on webpages, such as the edit text box here on Wikipedia. These text strings, such as '''begin_of_the_skype_highlighting''' and '''end_of_the_skype_highlighting''' have been detected in this edit. Please remove these text strings manually before trying to save your changes. To address the root cause of the problem you can follow the [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes#Disable_all_extensions instructions disable the Skype extension here]." '' Feel free to copyedit further. [[User talk:7|<span style="background:#acf;padding:4px;color:white;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em">&nbsp;'''7'''&nbsp;</span>]] 03:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC) *+1 for me on the need for this. It makes a mess of isbn and other identifier-numbers (and their resulting template/autolinkifications) too. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 21:20, 2 April 2010 (UTC) :((done)), log only for now at [[Special:AbuseFilter/313]]. [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 00:19, 3 April 2010 (UTC) ::8 hits since creation, adding the [[MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-skype|warning message]]. [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 16:41, 3 April 2010 (UTC) <!-- New Requests go at the top of this section, not the bottom (Please keep this notice at the bottom of the section, below all new requests) --> ==Denied requests== ===Link-spam www.fibroidsuterus.com=== ((resolved|21:10, 12 May 2010 (UTC))) *'''Task''': block anonymous from adding www.fibroidsuterus.com to [[uterine fibroids]] and [[leiomyoma]]. The advertised pages link to http://www.fibroidsuterus.com/uterine-fibroids-miracle-review/ which appears a clear case. Has been readded repeatedly. *'''Reason''': link spam - links to a site promoting potentially harmful medical misinformation [[User:Richiez|Richiez]] ([[User talk:Richiez|talk]]) 09:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC) *:Have you tried the [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist]] first? I would think that would be more appropriate since the filter doesnt really to make a judgement about the validity of an edit; it's either good or it isn't. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 10:11, 12 May 2010 (UTC) ::thanks, I was not aware of the spam-blacklist filter, seems more appropriate. I will watch it for a while and request if I see more activity. [[User:Richiez|Richiez]] ([[User talk:Richiez|talk]]) 11:11, 12 May 2010 (UTC) ===Paid editing from 208.54.14.0/8=== *'''Task''': For the range 208.54.14.0/8: disallow page creation with "*onzale*" in title, disallow editing of "Due Date" and flag any edits that include "*onzale*". *'''Reason''': There is a very persistent paid editor on this dynamic IP range who has been spamming on behalf of his client Joel William Gonzales for a long time now. See the [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/EZW/Archive|SPI archive]] and [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Joel_W._Gonzales|one]] of over 16 related AfDs. Unfortunately there are also good faith editors on this IP range, so a netblock would have collateral damage. [[User:Smocking|Smocking]] ([[User talk:Smocking|talk]]) 17:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC) :Created [[Special:AbuseFilter/302|302]] and [[Special:AbuseFilter/303|303]]. Log only for now to see how well they do. If the hit rate is insignificant, these filters will probably be disabled. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 18:18, 9 March 2010 (UTC) ::I have seen no hits on this filter yet. Is the user currently blocked? Is he being missed by the filter? If this filter doesn't get that many hits, it may not be a good candidate for a filter for performance reasons. We have a limited number of conditions to work with, and the fact that this would require 2 separate filters is a problem in and of itself. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 02:26, 12 March 2010 (UTC) :::I dont believe the filter can detect the true IP address of a user who's editing with a named account, so these filters will only detect anonymous users, and anonymous users can't create pages. Also, /8 is a very large range; is it really necessary? '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 02:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC) ::::Good point. I wasn't thinking and created [[Special:AbuseFilter/303|303]] as an IP user creating a new article. I deserve a [[WP:TROUT|trout]] for that one.... That would explain the lack of hits. [[Special:AbuseFilter/302|302]] could still match, but only if it's anonymous. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 02:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC) :::::Just wanted to mention that the user's ([[EZW]]) edits may be in rather confused, but good-faith, edits. I've dealt with the user multiple times on the IRC channel #wikipedia-en-afc, and each time, I've concluded that although the user has a major conflict of interest, the issue is a lack of policy comprehension. Frankly, after speaking with the user over 5 times on IRC, I think that the edits are in good faith, as the user quite obviously believes that their client is notable. I've attempted to explain our policies which conflict with their edits. However, I do not argue the fact that a filter should be in place. <span style="border: 1px solid; background-color:black">[[User:IShadowed|'''<font color=#87F717> &nbsp;IShadowed&nbsp;</font>''']][[User talk:IShadowed|<span style="color:#800000; background-color:black">&nbsp;✰&nbsp;</span>]]</span> 03:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::EZW and his [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/EZW/Archive|sockpuppet gallery]] have recreated the [[Joel W Gonzales]] page at least seven times now (not to mention the other pages and adding Gonzales to [[Due Date]] even though he has a tiny role). He hasn't made a single edit that wasn't reverted, created a page that wasn't deleted through AfD or shown any intention of stopping the cycle anytime soon. This has been going on for over half a year now and sorry, with all the best intentions in the world, I can no longer assume good faith in this case. Unfortunately he seems to be using other IP ranges as well now, so this filter will probably not be very effective anymore. [[User:Smocking|Smocking]] ([[User talk:Smocking|talk]]) 18:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC) :::::::Not asking for one's sympathy, simply mentioning that I've dealt with this user, and the problem seems to be ignorance rather than bad-faith. Either way, the user and his many socks are blocked and apparently we're working on a filter. <span style="border: 1px solid; background-color:black">[[User:IShadowed|'''<font color=#87F717> &nbsp;IShadowed&nbsp;</font>''']][[User talk:IShadowed|<span style="color:#800000; background-color:black">&nbsp;✰&nbsp;</span>]]</span> 21:28, 12 March 2010 (UTC) ::::::::((notdone)) Deleted the filters. [[Special:AbuseFilter/302|302]] is functionally impossible, and [[Special:AbuseFilter/303|303]] does not get enough hits to justify the performance hit and condition consumption. I would advise simply watchlisting the affected pages and keeping an eye on them. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 03:04, 17 March 2010 (UTC) === Extra trigger for possible cut and paste moves === *'''Task''': Would it be possible to add the ((tl|Hangon)) tag to the list of templates that trigger this filter? *'''Reason''': Cut and paste page recreation immediately after speedy deletion with the ((tl|Hangon)) tag left in place is a fairly common occurence at NewPages. <span style="font-family:Segoe Media Center">[[User:Jeffrey Mall|Jeffrey Mall]]</span> <small>([[User talk:Jeffrey Mall|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jeffrey Mall|contribs]])</small> - 10:29, 8 April 2010 (UTC) *:Or any deletion template, really. There was once a tag called "possible cut and paste move or recreation", but it's inactive now. It looks like filters 164 and 237 at various times in the past did track creating a new page with a hangon tag, but it was removed because any such pages would be automatically placed in the CSD category anyway. Still, it shouldnt be much trouble to bring it back if people agree that it's a good idea. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:26, 8 April 2010 (UTC) *::Nevermind, just viewed the tag's source and wasn't aware ((tl|Hangon)) added pages to both [[:Category:Contested candidates for speedy deletion]] and [[:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion]]. Thanks anyway, <span style="font-family:Segoe Media Center">[[User:Jeffrey Mall|Jeffrey Mall]]</span> <small>([[User talk:Jeffrey Mall|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jeffrey Mall|contribs]])</small> - 12:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC) *((not done|Withdrawn request)) (withdrawn). [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:12, 12 April 2010 (UTC) ===Stopping [[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]] respellings=== *'''Task''': Stop the respelling of the names "Michal" and "Michel" to "Mikaru" and "Mikeru" respectively on [[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure]] and its related articles. The only instance the latter pair should appear is within the parameters of the "nihongo" template for pronunciation of the [[kana]] associated (みかる and ミケル respectively). *'''Reason''': The former pair is the official spelling used in the ''primary'' media of the title, which in this case is the English manga. However, certain anonymous editors kept changing to the latter pair without any good/plausible reason to do. It is also due to this very mentality that ((user|Gryffinclaw)) got into a pseudo-edit war with several other editors. - [[User: Nanami Kamimura|上村七美 (Nanami-chan)]] | <small>[[User talk: Nanami Kamimura|talkback]] | [[Special: Contributions/Nanami Kamimura|contribs]]</small> 09:42, 28 March 2010 (UTC) **'''Update''': These two most recent edits on [[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure]] should justify to make this edit filter request a priority: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mermaid_Melody_Pichi_Pichi_Pitch_Pure&diff=353171410&oldid=352503628] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mermaid_Melody_Pichi_Pichi_Pitch_Pure&diff=353218420&oldid=353178647] - [[User: Nanami Kamimura|上村七美 (Nanami-chan)]] | <small>[[User talk: Nanami Kamimura|talkback]] | [[Special: Contributions/Nanami Kamimura|contribs]]</small> 16:49, 31 March 2010 (UTC) ***Edit filters aren't really designed for issues with a single article, and there's no way for the edit filter to know what is a "related article". Nor will we lock out someone who's in a content dispute. ((not done)). [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 11:15, 12 April 2010 (UTC) ===Unregistered user creating a talk page for a nonexistent article=== *'''Task''': Warns an unregistered user if he/she attempts to create a talk page for an article that does not exist. If the user insists on creating said talk page after being warned, then the filter should tag it to assist new talk page patrollers. *'''Reason''': All such talk pages automatically qualify for speedy deletion under the G8 criterion. Many anonymous users have been creating these talk pages for experimentation purposes. Unfortunately, some of those pages would even meet the G3 or G10 criterion for speedy deletion. In addition, some anonymous users have apparently been using the talkspace to request article creation instead of using the AFC process. --[[User:SoCalSuperEagle |<font color="darkgreen">'''SoCalSuperEagle'''</font> ]] <font color="black">([[User talk:SoCalSuperEagle|talk]])</font> 19:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC) *:Unfortunately I dont believe it's possible for the filter to tell whether a page exists or not. This is a limitation that would do a lot of good for us if it was fixed. (Someone please correct me if Im wrong.) '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 19:31, 27 March 2010 (UTC) *::((notdone)) Correct. I believe this has been asked for in the past but unfortunately does not appear to be possible. An adminbot that handles this would be interesting, though. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 23:57, 27 March 2010 (UTC) ===Mediation Cabal cases=== *'''Task''': Applies to all pages beginning with Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases. Please warn when user attempts to create a new page that starts with that prefix and ends with a "/". *'''Reason''': Needed to prevent people from using our system to create cases without a real name, such as Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-3-17/ which later have to be moved (by myself or another coordinator) to a valid location. - <span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:3">[[User:The Wordsmith|'''The Wordsmith''']]</span>^{[[User talk:The Wordsmith|Communicate]]} 17:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC) :Created [[Special:AbuseFilter/308|308]], log only while unit tests are being performed. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 18:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC) ::((notdone)) No hits in that time period. Additionally, filter was disabled by [[User:Prodego]] with the comment "The abusefilter is intended to stop abusive edits. This is neither problematic, nor abusive." I might recommend a bot to help detect this instead. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 12:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC) :::Just noting that this filter has been revived in a different form, Filter 314, whose log (it's log-only) can be seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=314 here]. I dont think it should ever be set to Disallow, because there are legitimate pages like [[/boot/]] that need to end in a slash, but it seems to have caught a malfunctioning archive bot of some sort which created a page titled [[User talk:RashersTierney/Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives/]]. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:34, 12 April 2010 (UTC) ::::Oddly, the link above isnt working, even though it works in article space. It seems to be a bug relating to articles that ''begin'' with a slash, as the software assumes they're a subpage of the current page. Well, in case it wasnt obvious, the page Im linking to is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//boot/ /boot/]. '''[[User:Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]][[User talk:Soap|<font color="057602">''Soap''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Soap|<font color="green">—</font>]]''' 11:42, 12 April 2010 (UTC) ===Rayman Unlimited/Advent/RX=== *'''Task''': Prevent any edits containing the text "Rayman Advent", "Rayman Unlimited", and "Rayman RX" from being made to any articles. *'''Reason''': For several months now, since July, a vandal has been adding false entries to various pages, primarily those of voice actors, claiming that they are somehow involved with a series of nonexistent projects related to the Rayman franchise (i.e. Rayman Unlimited, Rayman Advent, Rayman RX). The vandal's actions have been going on for several months now, and since he's hopping between IPs (with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/70.188.151.127 70.188.151.127] and[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/68.0.233.157 68.0.233.157] being the latest examples), it makes him very hard to track without regularly having to search for the above keywords. Nary a week goes by without him making another attempt under a different IP, and quite honestly, it's getting irritating. Therefore, due to the constant hopping and the fact that no one would make any entries for these without the sole intention of vandalism, I propose a filter be made to prevent the problem in the future. — [[User:Cyberlink420|Cyberlink420]] ([[User talk:Cyberlink420|talk]]) 00:24, 10 March 2010 (UTC) :Created [[Special:AbuseFilter/304|304]], currently log only, to evaluate performance and accuracy. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]]<small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 02:29, 12 March 2010 (UTC) ::((notdone)) Filter deleted. Filter has had no hits during the trial period, so the benefit does not seem to outweigh the performance hit. I would advise simply watchlisting or perhaps coding a bot to track the edits. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]]<small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 18:53, 20 March 2010 (UTC) [[de:Wikipedia:Missbrauchsfilter/Anträge]] [[fr:Wikipédia:AbuseFilter/Requêtes]] [[pt:Wikipedia:Filtro de edições/Solicitações]]'