MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist/Archive 5

Blacklist a number?
I was wondering if someone could blacklist this phone number: ８８９０３８８８１１. There's been somewhat of a rash of articles created with this number in an attempt to promote a psychic hotline. The person in question was originally blocked under one account, but came back under a new username. All in all they've created ８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer canada, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer UK, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer pune, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer gujarat, Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer canada, and Solve problem @８８９０３８８８１１ love problem solution astrologer kuwait. I haven't bothered salting any of them or checking to see if they're salted, since any salting would just likely result in them going for a new word combination and it'd likely be easier to just block anything that used this number. I think that it's likely that they'll be back at least once since they came back immediately after being blocked. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  12:24, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Interestingly there is already an entry for this phone number. However the spammer has found a way around it using fullwidth characters. I'll try to adjust it now. If this practice becomes more widespread someone may have to adjust all the entries. BethNaught (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. BethNaught (talk) 12:38, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Is there really a need for any page title to have a number with ten or more digits in it, obfuscated or not? This would catch essentially all phone numbers available to spammers. I can't see why any username should need such a long digit string in it, either. -- The Anome (talk) 12:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, there are no current such titles. I'd be inclined to add a  entry to disallow titles with long digit strings, yes. I wonder if an edit filter would also work but we'd need to know if there is a legit reason to add such a digit in particular namespaces. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:36, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Just be creative with your regex, as they will adapt quickly... 1-800 would become l--8__o__o for example...
 * See Special:Abusefilter/793. MER-C 02:01, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If that was to me, I can't... :(  Crow  Caw  21:57, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's a private edit filter. would be a titleblacklist filter for articles with ten or more digits in it be feasible, or are there issues (e.g false positives)? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That filter can debofuscate strings like "l--8__o__o". As for blocking strings of 10 digits: I don't know -- it's not something I can easily search for. The full-width numbers should have very little false positives though (but again, impossible to search for). MER-C 00:35, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Posted a question on WP:VPT. Help:Searching indicates one can perform a regex search of page sources, but that is only useful for page content - maybe something for an edit filter to prevent people from adding phone numbers to pages if such a thing is wanted, a question for Edit filter/Requested rather than here, though. JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 09:33, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

should match any title with 10 digits in it (or common substitutes, add as needed) regardless of what else is in the title. So would match "0xxx1xxxxx2xx xxx3x456xxx xx7xxx xx8x9", for example. It would also match 10 occurrences of the "other" characters... Crow Caw  22:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It would also match upwards of 116,000 existing article titles, such as Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese or Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. --Carnildo (talk) 01:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yep, rather dangerous in that form. Could be tweaked of course to lazy up the inter-character wildcard, and if applied to for creation, should limit the disruption. The more open the regex becomes to catch the evil, the more good will get tied up, unfortunately. This may not be the best approach, I was just thinking out loud in response to the above questions. Crow  Caw  20:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * My impression is that only continuous - or separated by hyphens or spaces - sequences of numbers/number lookalikes are a problem. JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 10:06, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * should match: A digit or lookalike followed by between zero and 3 of space, hyphen, or underscore (to catch "1 - 2 _ 3...), repeated between 7 and 10 times. That returns "only" 909 existing titles (only a small number are in mainspace and some of which are not likely redirect titles, such as Gooooooooogle, so again, setting should minimize legit disruption. Crow  Caw  18:05, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 19 November 2016
Please add  to assist in preventing ongoing disruption - this was originally requested as a filter here

-- samtar talk or stalk 16:33, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ - I recognize this LTA, so I know what's going on...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:42, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Just realised when I removed the inc. that I removed a  - please can you change the regex to   --  samtar talk or stalk 21:45, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for the heads up :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:50, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 21 November 2016
Please add  to prevent username & article creations per Sockpuppet_investigations/The_Suix and Edit_filter/Requested --  samtar talk or stalk 09:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Usernames need to be handled at meta:Talk:Title blacklist, the local ones don't affect them. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:15, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The more you know! Cheers - does this mean it's a lot less likely it'd get approved as it's not cross-wiki? --  samtar talk or stalk 16:21, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't work over there so I have no idea whether it will be approved or not. Probably best to ask there, and if no we can locally blacklist just for the title (the global blacklist disallows both usernames and titles). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:23, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Cheers - requested at Meta. Marking this as answered, thanks for your help -- samtar talk or stalk 16:29, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

John Galea
Requesting the addition of  per Sockpuppet_investigations/Johngalea24 (in addition to examples given in the SPI, we've also had John p galea and John PGalea created by socks today). --McGeddon (talk) 17:18, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -- samtar talk or stalk 17:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It looks like you've put a leading space on there by accident - is there any danger that'll be taken as part of the regexp? --McGeddon (talk) 17:30, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out, I've corrected it. When editing the page the new line looked slightly outdented so I tried to line it up -- samtar talk or stalk 17:47, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Peer VanMladen
Hi - I saw this page and realised from the text that it should be "Van Mladen" - so I tried to move it. Turns out "Peer Van Mladen" is a blacklisted page so I tagged it for speedy. I thought I should mention it on here also, just in case someone removes the tag. Happy New Year Mark   Dask  15:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Request the addition of "Google Boys Arimalam" and combinations thereof
Google Boys Arimalam was repeatedly recreated. Now Google Boys Arimalam Studio is the name being recreated. I was wondering whether this could be added to the title blacklist. Thanks. Lourdes 05:20, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: User:samtar has create-protected the former and I have dealt with the latter. Much easier than using the title blacklist &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure. Thanks. Lourdes  11:34, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * , the nonsense was recreated this morning under 2 new variants of the title at :
 * 09:32, 31 December 2016 ‎Google Boys Arimalam (disambiguation) (hist) ‎[38 bytes] ‎Ayushmaan Bhava 24 (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ' ') (Tag: very short new article)
 * 09:31, 31 December 2016 ‎Google Boys Arimalam Google Boys (hist) ‎[59 bytes] ‎Ayushmaan Bhava 24 (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ' ')
 * -- Cabayi (talk) 10:09, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I see this has now been added by User:The Anome &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:44, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Davide Anselmi
I would like to have the name Davide Anselmi and Anselmi Davide added to the title/word blacklist. Long story short, there's some sockpuppetry surrounding this and the guy's basic MO is to try to create pages that claim some pretty easily disproven stuff. The guy claims to have had Stephen Sondheim (who is known for his musical career) as a cinematographer on a film that gained zero coverage. Lately he's been trying to attach himself to various films, like claiming that he worked on the sound for the Maze Runner series, which again, didn't happen. The socks have been mildly creative with the various names, which have run the range from Davide Anselmi, Anselmi Davide, Davide Anselmi (composer), Davide Anselmi (composer), and Anselmi Davide (Drummer). Hopefully making it so he can't create an article will help deter him. If there's a way to prevent him from putting his name on Wikipedia at all, that might be good as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:23, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * should do the trick, at least until he starts adapting, then its easy enough to add more conditions. Crow  Caw  21:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * MER-C 04:55, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Christian/Christine Weston Chandler and other names
Hey, I was wondering if we could get the following names blacklisted from being added:


 * Christian Weston Chandler
 * Christian Chandler
 * Christine Chandler
 * Christine Weston Chandler
 * Sonichu

It isn't nearly as bad as it once was, but there are still periodically attempts to re-add this person and their family members to Wikipedia, done either as a joke or as a good faith attempt. This person is pretty infamous for their actions on the Internet, enough to where there are a group of people who have a wiki devoted entirely to their life and some of the trolling efforts done against them.

You can see some efforts that were clearly done as a joke here and there's a whole history of it at the Ruckersville, Virginia article, both good faith edits and joke edits. The talk page has a long section about him as well. There are also quite a few AfDs for articles about Chandler, their creation, and their brother. (2009 AfD, 2012 deletion review, 2010 AfD, 2010 AfD, 2016 AfD)

The attempts at this have greatly slowed over the years so this might be a bit late, but I figured that it'd be worth adding to the blacklist. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks to me like something which should be handled by WP:SALT. The expression  should cover the first 4 you wrote on the list above, as well as the first 2010 AfD you mentioned; however, you could also SALT  all 6 titles as they become problems (some already have been). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Well... the issue here isn't so much that someone will try to create the articles as much as there are people who try to add this person and her creation into other articles like Ruckersville, Virginia or anything else that might be related to this person. Like I said, it's slowed over the years but it still happens. Most of the people that do this sort of thing are aware that any new page gets salted, so their game is to put her name into other articles. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:08, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Any way to create blacklisted redirect?
There is a constellation Boötes which obviously includes a diacritic. The stars in that constellation are named with green letters plus this constellation name (actually its genitive form Boötis). The titles of these articles are generally latinised, for example beta Boötis but a redirect is generally provided with the actual Greek letter. For most constellations this is not a problem, for example α Andromedae, but for α Boötis it is not allowed due to a blacklist entry here. As a result the redirects for this constellation are a mess, some exist without the diacritic, some with "oe" in place of it, and many are just missing.

I'm trying to tidy this up, so is there any way to bypass the regex and create these redirects, or am I stuck with the workarounds? There would be approximately 26 of them. No other constellation has this issue. Lithopsian (talk) 15:55, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The title blacklist can be overridden with the right user rights. Ask an admin (preferably one who knows about astronomy) to do it for you. BethNaught (talk) 15:58, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll get together a list and do that. Turns out about half the stars in Boötes already have redirects with the diacritic so I'm even more keen to get it all consistent. Lithopsian (talk) 14:14, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You could also seek a de-blacklisting or whitelisting on MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:47, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

A moving problem
Because the name of the page is wrong, I tried to move the page User:WDCDECDCDC/userbox to User:WDCDECDCDC/My userbox, but I couldn't move it, and the table says:

"User:WDCDECDCDC/userbox" cannot be moved to "User:WDCDECDCDC/my userbox", because the title "User:WDCDECDCDC/my userbox" is on the title blacklist. If you feel that this move is valid, please consider requesting the move first."

Can you move it?WDCDECDCDC (talk) 05:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ your page was moved to User:WDCDECDCDC/my userbox. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:57, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 22 February 2017
Add "Modishian" (and variants thereof) to the title blacklist; a blocked, socking user has repeatedly recreated this hoax article about a fake TV show. MereTechnicality  ⚙  18:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Please state the exact syntax needed &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:55, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it would be  Would that be correct to block Modishian, and anything containing that word?  MereTechnicality   ⚙  13:11, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I think that it would actually be, is that the correct syntax to block anything containing it? MereTechnicality  ⚙  03:12, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry I am not familiar with this page or the required syntax. You could ask as he/she seems most active in updating this page recently. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:15, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Blacklisted this and Vaga - The Official. MER-C 04:55, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

design.ok
Can we refine the current blacklist entry for .*design.*ok.* to avoid false positives? This was blacklisting Category:Census-designated places in Johnston County, Oklahoma before I just created it, and it's going to cause problems for any other categories on census-designated places in Oklahoma. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 06:58, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Should be fine now. MER-C 08:54, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Blocklogannotation
As Blocklogannotation never got off the ground, should we remove it from the titleblacklist? I see no reason to keep it any longer. – Train2104 (t • c) 03:28, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yanked. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:50, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Problem with TBL software
The software for the title blacklist still displays the "Start the _______ page" even if it is blacklisted. It should say "This title matches an entry on the blacklist, so only administrators can create it.   Ups and Downs 1234  (🗨) (My Contribs) 19:35, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Jonah Bryson
Hi! I was wondering if someone could add Jonah Bryson and The Fight for Bala to the blacklist. Per the comments at this AfD, it looks like Bryson has been trying fairly hard to get himself added to Wikipedia and this is just the latest attempt. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  14:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * MER-C 04:45, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

New entry
Wikipedia:.* for d(elet|iscuss)ion/(User:)?(B|b)onad?(ea)?.*

This will make Nsmutte give up. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 03:59, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * single user disruption should be handled with blocking as needed. — xaosflux  Talk 19:23, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * To be fair,, this is a relentless sockmaster obsessed with harassing Bonadea, and who already has one entry on the blacklist as a result. See Sockpuppet investigations/Nsmutte/Archive for one of the longest SPI's I've been involved with (136 entries)... Crow  Caw  21:54, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, reactivated since it is sock-related. — xaosflux  Talk 21:59, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ❌ I'm not comfortable with this one, everything here if nominated for deletion is collateral damage. (Plus the given regex does not work.) MER-C 04:48, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

1488
I propose to add. "1488" has become a common code for identifying oneself as a neo-nazi on the internet and its use in usernames violates our policy against disruptive or offensive usernames. See and Fourteen Words. There are over a dozen such blocked usernames on English Wikipedia, including User:1488Nate from just last month. The proposed regex looks for non-digit characters on either side of the 1488, so it would not block longer numbers that include 1488 by accident. Kaldari (talk) 17:33, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * with usernames being global, the directions say to request this at meta:Talk:Title blacklist now. — xaosflux  Talk 02:20, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried proposing it there and they said they wanted evidence that there was some consensus for it at the affected projects (mostly English and Russian Wikipedias). Any idea how I would show such consensus? Should I just start a discussion here rather than a request? Kaldari (talk) 02:36, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Are there recent problems? — xaosflux  Talk 02:59, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Zero width joiner emoji
Redirects from emoji are commonplace and most emoji are protected from the Titleblacklist via "single-character titles are permitted by the title whitelist". However many emoji are now more than a single-character (see Emoji). I'd like for there to be an exception so these ZWJ emoji and their talk pages can be created. See Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 March 2 for the context. -- Tavix ( talk ) 00:45, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Emoji that use variation selectors, emoji modifiers, regional indicator symbols, or (in the next version of Unicode) tags are also protected from creation. They too should be whitelisted. Gorobay (talk) 13:38, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm curious to find out where the request for this blacklist entry was placed, or who added the respective blacklist entry to this page. I can't figure it out myself because I cannot comprehend almost any of the edit history of MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. (I mean, if this blacklist entry is removed, titles such as the following could be created, all of which are skintone and hair color variations of 🙎 present on at least Apple devices: 🙎🏻, 🙎🏼, 🙎🏽, 🙎🏾 and 🙎🏿.) Steel1943  (talk) 14:44, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This was presumably because non-BMP characters are not used in English, so they are only useful as single-character redirects (allowed by the whitelist) or for vandalism. However, what appears to the user to be a single character may be encoded as multiple Unicode code points. This has been an issue for years, and not just for emoji, but emoji make the issue more prominent. Gorobay (talk) 15:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Do we have consensus to do this? Steel1943  (talk) 18:18, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Is anyone opposed to it? I figured the hold-up is because no one knows what such an entry would look like. -- Tavix ( talk ) 18:21, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Per the above, it seems as though Gorobay already identified the line in the blacklist that is causing these title restrictions. I'd say that if Gorobay is 100% that is the line that is causing this restriction, you could probably make the change yourself. Steel1943  (talk) 18:36, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * A removal of that line might create other issues (I have no idea though, I've never looked into it). I figured it'd be a modification to the whitelist line that allows for single-character unicode redirects (or a new line completely?). -- Tavix ( talk ) 18:42, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I’d say it’s safer to modify that line of the whitelist, something like . This overgenerates a lot to be forwards-compatible and easier to read. I didn’t test it. Gorobay (talk) 00:08, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Alright, I went ahead and made the change., please let me know if it needs to be tweaked or reverted. -- Tavix ( talk ) 17:48, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Since I noticed that you are the one who most actively updates MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, any chance you may be able to make this change? Steel1943  (talk) 20:43, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This was taken care of. MER-C 03:56, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Abū Shujāʿ al-Iṣfahānī
Why is this title blacklisted for a draft? It exists for an article, and I am trying to move the article to draft space because it is obviously incomplete. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:54, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I've draftified it. I didn't see any warnings about the blacklist, though I'm a TE so I'm not sure what warnings, if any, I should've seen. – Train2104 (t • c) 01:27, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Please allow move
Trying to move page SIGARCH to "ACM SIGARCH" to follow general convention on ACM special interest groups being prefaced with the "ACM" - and the associated conferences being named without the "ACM" prefix. I tried to move the page SIGARCH to ACM SIGARCH, but I couldn't move it, and the table says:

"SIGARCH" cannot be moved to "ACM SIGARCH", because the title "ACM SIGARCH" is on the title blacklist. If you feel that this move is valid, please consider requesting the move first."

Would you move this one as well? Thank you, Cypherquest (talk) 12:58, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Please see Association for Computing Machinery for more information - the large organization info box shows Special Interest Groups at the top and also includes links to conferences. All SIG groups should probably be moved en masse to "ACM SIGNAME".

Cypherquest (talk) 13:26, 6 June 2017 (UTC)


 * That's odd, I don't see it on the blacklist, or the global blacklist, and in fact you yourself created ACM SIGARCH a few days ago, which wouldn't have been possible if it was blacklisted. I'm going to be bold and move the article; I am open to reverting and trouting as appropriate if this was circumventing anything. Crow  Caw  22:54, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * It appears to be this rule: .*\p{Lu}(\P{L}*\p{Lu}){9}.* <casesensitive – Train2104 (t • c) 22:59, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Yep, thats the one. This appears to be otherwise uncontroversial so your best bet is to request the moves at WP:RM, describing the blacklist restriction preventing the move, so that only admins can move it. I'm unable to, even as a Page Mover. Crow  Caw  23:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I should be able to do this one, as a TE...but please request any more at WP:RM/TR. – Train2104 (t • c) 23:05, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Will do - there are several pages like this that perhaps could/should be moved. We appreciate the help diagnosing the violation - and the help with moving this one. Cypherquest (talk) 00:14, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

On Wheels
In this line:

.*[OÓÒÔÖÕǑŌŎǪŐŒØƏΌΟΩῸὈὉὌὊὍὋОӨӦӪ0][N₦ŃÑŅŇṆΝ][ ]?[WŴẀẂẄẆẈ₩][HΉĤĦȞʰʱḢḤḦḨḪНҢӇӉΗἨἩἪἫἬἭἮἯῊᾘЋΗⱧԋњһh][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ][ÉÈËEĘĚĔĖẺẸẾỀỄễỂểȨȩḜḝĒḖḗȄȅȆȇỆệḘḙḚḛ3عڠeēėèéëẽĕęəẻếềẹ]+[L₤ĹĽḶŁĿΛЛЉ7][[S$ŚŜŞŠṢΣЅz5].* # Disallows moves with "on wheels" with 2 or more Es

The final character class appears to have too many opening square brackets, specifically. Julyo (talk) 19:44, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Excessive Repetition, off by one
This line

.*([^0])\1{4}.* # Disallows four or more of the same character from page moves

should probably say "Disallows five or more" or "Disallows more than four"; alternatively, the  bit could be changed to. Julyo (talk) 19:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

2017 Paul Hunter Classic
I'm an admin, so can over-ride the blacklist, but it seems that the list of expressions that are prohibiting this page (".*Hunter (The|Baker|Classic|Original|Mariner|Fan|Berkeley|2|3|4|5|Oasis|Eclipse|Beacon|Custom|Stratford|Low|Summer|Studio).*") includes far too many banal terms. Furthermore, it creates an annual problem for this important annual snooker tournament. "Classic" is a term used in many BrEng sporting tournaments, btw. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:35, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems to have been a September 2013 edit by : --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 10:07, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The addition was because of David Beals, see Sockpuppet investigations/David Beals. The case page hasn't had much activity lately, so it may be safe to remove the line altogether. I'll wait to see if there's any objection though. -- Tavix ( talk ) 20:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. How long do you think you need to feel comfortable? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:47, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I feel comfortable removing it now, it's been a week. I just didn't want to remove it right away in case someone had a good reason not to. -- Tavix ( talk ) 13:57, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Marvy. Thank you. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:01, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Pawan Kumar NR
Being repeatedly recreated under various titles by various socks of similar names. I suggest the regex .*Pa(w|v)an ?Kumar.* .--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:55, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * This user continued socking today. Please do consider adding that regular expression to the blacklist.--Jasper Deng (talk) 09:24, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:40, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Fouad Adan Hamoussin
The user Fouadadan (and socks) is creating and recreating lots of pages about himself (by now Hamoussin fouad, Fouad adan hamoussin, Fouad adan (anashed), Fouad hamoussin adan, Fouad adan Hamoussin, Fouad adan, Fouad adan anachid). For further info, see the SPI page, its archive, the SP category, and my request on meta:SRG (note: all socks are now globally locked). To prevent further vandalisms (hote that he created all this pages in few days, again and again), I request that the title Fouad Adan Hamoussin (of fouad adan, adan fouad... in any form, including l33t :-) ) should be listeD in the title/word blacklist. Due to the kind of self-promo vandalisms, that are user's only interest; removing the possibility to recreate this titles, the case should be quickly closed, once and for all (IMHO). And further socks should be avoided. -Dэя-Бøяg 01:55, 25 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: today he created Fouad Adan hamoussin and Fouad hamoussin. --Dэя-Бøяg 22:25, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

My proposal for a list: etc... Sorry, maybe it's simpler than I think, but my knowledge of this codes is really poor. --Dэя-Бøяg 01:05, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * pages deleted: Hamoussin fouad, Fouad adan hamoussin, Fouad adan (anashed), Fouad hamoussin adan, Fouad adan Hamoussin, Fouad adan, Fouad adan anachid, Fouad Adan hamoussin, Fouad hamoussin, Fouad Adan Hamousin
 * new possible pages: Fouad Adan, Adan Fouad, Fouad Adan Hamoussin, Fouad Hamoussin Adan, Adan Fouad Hamoussin, Adan Hamoussin Fouad, Hamoussin Fouad Adan, Hamoussin Adan Fouad, Fouad Hamoussin, Hamoussin Fouad, Adan fouad, Adan fouad hamoussin, Adan hamoussin fouad, Fouad Adan (Anashed), Fouad Adan anachid, Fouad Adan Anachid, Hamousin Fouad Adan, Hamousin Fouad Adan, Fouad Hamousin Adan, Fouad Hamousin, Fouad adan hamousin, Fouad hamousin adan, Hamousin fouad adan, Hamousin adan fouad, Fouad hamousin, Hamousid fouad...


 * should match "fouad" and any of "adan,anashed,hammoussin,anachid" appearing in any order. If the TBL supports positive lookaheads that is. Otherwise a bunch of x|y comparisons could do it. Crow  Caw  00:29, 28 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot. Note: today he created Fouad islamic. --Dэя-Бøяg 00:34, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

30 Jul 2017
Please add  and   to the title blacklist to prevent further disruption with profanity. Ups and  Downs  (↕) 16:21, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Usernames must be blacklisted on meta. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 17:29, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Kobi Arad

 * Please add this title to the blacklist. The page Kobi Arad is create-protected due to unambiguous promotion and repeated recreation. Since protection, editors have been recreating the page at slightly altered titles instead, such as Kobi arad and Kobi Arad (musician) and Draft:Kobi Arad. This has been going on for many years; please see Draft talk:Kobi Arad and Sockpuppet investigations/Tomwsulcer for more. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:02, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Please add  to the title blacklist per this consensus that I was not involved in.  Ups  and  Downs  (↕) 03:34, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:30, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. MER-C 02:54, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Kris Degioia
I found all pages created by Waffen77/Kris Degioia farm here let's retake a look of a titles blacklisted here As well both Degioia and Fighter KD got locked globally --38.96.9.224 (talk) 05:04, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Kris Degioia
 * Talk:Kris Degioia
 * Kris degioia
 * Kris R Degioia
 * Draft:Kris Degioia
 * WTF Multimedia
 * Draft:WTF Multimedia

Junior Abad
Please blacklist all pages here like John Abad, John Deguzman, Jon Abad, Jon de Guzman, John Ray Abad, John Ray Deguzman, John Ray De Guzman Abad, Jon Ray De Guzman Jon Ray De Guzman Abad Jon Ray Deguzman Jon Ray Deguzman Abad JR Deguzman JR De Guzman JR De Guzman Abad JD Productions Today Stars John DG. Abad Saturday Stars John Guzman Jon Guzman and JRD Primetastic Artist. per Long-term abuse/Jr abad Thanks. 209.249.5.130 (talk) 23:28, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ❌ Nakon  04:16, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 22 August 2017
Please add the entries "on whe3ls" and "on wh3els" to the Title Blacklist. 24.50.204.99 (talk) 21:47, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ❌ There doesn't appear to be any active vandalism regarding these titles at this time. Nakon  01:08, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Usernames with "2149"
A persistent troll has been creating a berage of sockpuppets mimicking my username, specifically to spam my notifications, and vandalise articles. This is far from being a first incident, because the seemingly same user spent several months from 2016 to 2017 trolling articles, spamming me and (the user started targeting me after I assisted the latter), and creating multiple impersonation accounts of the both of us. The user has also bragged about being "unstoppable" and being able to change IP ranges. The user's current wave of attacks consist of creating usernames based on Christopher Nolan's filomography (a pun on my username being "Darkknight") and following it up with "2149" or even "2419". Examples of these accounts include the socks, , , , and. At this point, if someone is creating a username with "2149", chances are that it's either them or me.  Dark Knight  2149  17:35, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Since usernames are global now, they prefer to use the TBL at MetaWiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Title_blacklist That said, I'd suggest   to start with.  Crow  Caw  18:30, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Template: PAOK B.C. 1993–94 FIBA Korać Cup champions
Please see the reasonable requested move by at Template talk:PAOK B.C. 1993–94 FIBA Korać Cup Champions to lowercase "champions" – something in there triggers a blacklist rule, but it's not easy to deduce what. No such user (talk) 13:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what it matched on the blacklist, but I moved the template. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:03, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Just want to let you know that I also requested Template talk:PAOK B.C. 1990–91 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Champions to be move for the exact same reason. Strangely enough, I encountered these problems with basketball teams that are from Greece. – Sabbatino (talk) 09:38, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The match is . You can request these moves at WP:RM/TR. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:30, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

RENJITH UNNI
Not sure why this is on the blacklist but it is so I can't move User:Syamsatya/sandbox to draft space.  Whispe ring  04:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The match is . I've moved it to Draft:Renjith Unni. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 15:09, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Emoji blacklisted?
I thought there was consensus to allow the creation of pages with emoji strings or color modifiers, but I recently noticed this message when attempting to create such a page (note I am a template editor):""Pinging Gorobay to see if they can figure out what happened or who added it. Steel1943 (talk) 04:01, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * What title were you trying to create? Gorobay (talk) 13:29, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like this blacklist entry affects any title that has a colon then an emoji (such as User:😎) or titles with consecutive emojis (such as 😶😶, though this one makes sense.) I triggered the blacklist entry when I was testing out creating pages in the "User:" namespace containing emoji in response to an ongoing WP:RFC regarding user names including emojis. Steel1943  (talk) 15:46, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Pretty sure these were not exempted, and we didn't want these usernames being created - the recent RfC and contention has been about global names getting created elsewhere. — xaosflux  Talk 16:05, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * There was consensus to allow single-emoji titles in the main namespace, but not to allow emoji in titles in general. The previous single-character whitelist regex was . Its current version was only meant to expand it to allow emoji that appear as single characters but are encoded as multiple. It was not meant to affect non-main namespaces or to allow titles with multiple emoji. Allowing either of those would have required further discussion. Gorobay (talk) 18:23, 17 October 2017 (UTC)


 * This current situation makes sense to me now. Thanks for the input! Steel1943  (talk) 18:57, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Tweak "no 10 capitals without lowercase" regexp to ignore username when counting
See. I believe the regexp responsible (I do not know which) should be changed from (...) to. Tigraan Click here to contact me 17:26, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Support As the person who experienced the problem. ! dave  18:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Weird character spam
and - I added ①①④④②⑥⑤⑤① to the global list at Title_blacklist, if someone wants to work up a better regex for this we can consolidate it there. — xaosflux  Talk 18:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It seems to have stopped for now by itself. Maybe .*[①-⑨]{6}.* would catch future weird spam without too many false positives. Κσυπ Cyp  18:52, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * added at meta. — xaosflux  Talk 19:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Blacklisted usernames
I notice that there are a number of  rules in the blacklist despite it now being supposedly being managed from Meta per phab:T38939. Is this incorrect, or can the local entries be removed and copied to Meta as appropriate? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:53, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that their presence here will have no effect, and judging by some recent accounts I've seen, that is true. I'd say bring them up at meta, though in some recent discussions the folks there have been hesitant to blacklist names of interest to one project only. Kind of a catch-22, that... CrowCaw 17:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, comparing with  suggests that it is not effective. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've removed these entries. I'll ask about adding some of them on meta:Talk:Title blacklist; many of them are too broad for a global project, I think. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:19, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If a group of naughty accounts are being created from enwiki and editing only here, then an entry in the local blacklist makes sense. Just like how accounts aren't globally locked when they vandalize on one wiki. When just used on enwiki-specific vandalism, this won't have any negative effects on SUL finalization. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 03:57, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I think the problem discussed above is that adding them here doesn't actually work - the accounts still get created. — xaosflux  Talk 04:19, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If the account creation process is happening here, then the local blacklist should prevent them from being made. If the master tries to bypass the local blacklist by creating from another project, then that would be enough reason to add the name to the global blacklist. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 05:10, 21 January 2018 (UTC) Oh no, I just didn't read through the whole bug. I didn't realize that the functionality had been completely switched off at the local level. Obviously at Meta we should take any such reasonable requests then. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 05:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Prophet Daddy Hezekiah
You might need to do something around Daddy Hezekial as the author is running at as Prof and Prophet and will probably find other variants. KJP1 (talk) 16:50, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Freshdesk
Since people is trying to recreate Freshdesk article and drafts all of time, Freshdesk should be listed at title blacklist. 2A02:C7F:9659:4500:3DDD:F1F8:F91:7058 (talk) 15:29, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That's unnecessary because Freshdesk was salted after it was last deleted. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Someone has created a draft version to get around the full create protection and it was listed for MfD. 2A02:C7F:9659:4500:3DDD:F1F8:F91:7058 (talk) 15:42, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Some people that works at Freshdesk has trying to get the page unsalted and nope. We now need to put Freshdesk into title blacklist because someone has created a draft version. 2A02:C7F:9659:4500:9158:3C4B:7629:188F (talk) 19:06, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It now time to put Freshdesk into title blacklist now both mainspace and draft version is full create protected. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:E563:6FD1:3949:3B5F (talk) 16:51, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Blacklisted title effects?
I have TE rights, and so I could create Template:Ship/doc/fixed prefix: documentation. I got the warning that  is blacklisted here, and that editing required TE rights.

I can work with that, but my question is: are there more drawbacks from this (apart from the fact that editing is limited)? I'd like to use the word "prefix", as in Ship prefix. Any advice? (move, continue, else)? FYI, when I moved a page into a "prefix:" pagename, I do not remember seeing that warning. Just to say: is there a leak? - DePiep (talk) 17:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Others can edit the page. The limitation is only on creation. It only applies to "prefix:" with a colon. It's aimed at users who click a red "You may create the page ..." link after doing a prefix search with "prefix:" in the search. But the search software has actually improved to no longer offer silly creation links for such searches. We may not need the blacklist entry now but I guess it's safer to keep it. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:53, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

thx - DePiep (talk) 22:14, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Add George Zink into title blacklist
See Sockpuppet investigations/Anika86p, lot of socks keeps on recreating it under other titles. 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:1C30:1B8B:229F:3228 (talk) 17:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Why was a name blacklisted?
In general is there a way to find out why an article name was blacklisted? Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:30, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

IPA redirect
Can someone create: Thanks, – Julia (talk) 01:11, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ,  and , redirect to Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
 * , redirect to Alveolo-palatal ejective fricative
 * ✅ Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:39, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Prem Khan
Hey all, is there a way to prevent creation of articles about Prem Khan? This has been an ongoing issue for a few years. See Sockpuppet investigations/Washim Rahman (and the related archive linked therein). Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:59, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * put .*prem.*khan.* in spam titles Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you. Regex frightens me. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:50, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 28 June 2018
Add mentions of "Danny Lorraine" and star sizes to the list. Those are targeted by this vandal; also see Sockpuppet investigations. 203.173.245.76 (talk) 06:25, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ❌ yet. Please provide diffs showing why those two strings should be added, I couldn't find any in the contributions of that person's socks, but I didn't go through every contribution. Fish +Karate 11:27, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

IP talk pages blocked from moves
See thread at WP:VPT. An IP created their talk page at an incorrect location, so I attempted to move it to the correct location (User talk:2600:1002:B00A:E4EB:F021:E054:2B2F:4C37). A rule preventing more than nine consecutive capital letters prevented this move. I suggest an exception for this rule when it comes to user/user talk pages. Home Lander (talk) 02:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ❌ you are referring to this right?  That should have just been speedy deleted. As for your edit request, I assume you are referring to  ; however you did not provide a specific edit change that you would make so that this could be completed.  This section can certainly be used to discuss this rule in general though. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:55, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * When I first came upon the page, I overlooked the extra stuff at the end of the title, so thinking I was just at the user's talk page already, I overwrote the content with a warning about it. It was after that I noticed that the title was incorrect, so I tried to move it. Yes, that is the line that I'm told prevented the page move. This line is potentially problematic, as shown here, because it prevents page moves to user talks of IP addresses that meet this rule. Home Lander (talk) 03:02, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

This issue can be fixed by adding  to MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist. SD0001 (talk) 14:51, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Exception for Bayer designations
Bayer designations for stars in the constellation Boötes take the form of a Greek letter followed by the genitive form of the constellation name which is Boötis. Article titles consisting of a Greek letter in combination with non-latin characters are currently blacklisted. The star articles themselves are conventionally titled using the spelled-out form of the Green letter (eg. lambda for λ, lambda Boötis) but it is standard practice to provide a redirect from the name containing the Greek letter (eg. λ Boötis, especially useful for stars with proper names (eg. Arcturus). An exception would be helpful to allow this.  If this could be general enough to allow derivations, for example λ Boötis star as a redirect to lambda Boötis star, that would be even better.  Lithopsian —Preceding undated comment added 10:13, 24 August 2018
 * I'm guessing you hit the same blacklist entry I did - Latin + non-Latin. As a workaround, I believe admins can override the blacklist. Hairy Dude (talk) 02:17, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are potentially a whole bunch of redirects required, so it might be a bit much to ask of the admins. See Template:Stars of Boötes for a list of Bayer stars in that constellation (25 of them?), plus a handful of related classes.  Lithopsian (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * If you provide a list of the 25 redirects (with targets) that you would like created, I will do it. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Good news, several of them already exist. They're lower-case Greek letters, for what that's worth on a redirect.  Lithopsian (talk) 14:23, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) α Boötis => Arcturus
 * 2) β Boötis => beta Boötis
 * 3) γ Boötis => gamma Boötis
 * 4) δ Boötis => delta Boötis
 * 5) ε Boötis => epsilon Boötis
 * 6) ζ Boötis => zeta Boötis
 * 7) η Boötis => eta Boötis
 * 8) θ Boötis => theta Boötis
 * 9) ι Boötis => iota Boötis
 * 10) κ Boötis => kappa Boötis
 * 11) κ1 Boötis => kappa Boötis
 * 12) κ2 Boötis => kappa Boötis
 * 13) λ Boötis => lambda Boötis
 * 14) μ Boötis => mu Boötis
 * 15) μ1 Boötis => mu Boötis
 * 16) μ2 Boötis => mu Boötis
 * 17) ν Boötis => nu Boötis
 * 18) ν1 Boötis => nu1 Boötis
 * 19) ν2 Boötis => nu2 Boötis
 * 20) ξ Boötis => xi Boötis
 * 21) ο Boötis => omicron Boötis
 * 22) π Boötis => pi Boötis
 * 23) π1 Boötis => pi Boötis
 * 24) π2 Boötis => pi Boötis
 * 25) ρ Boötis => rho Boötis
 * 26) σ Boötis => sigma Boötis
 * 27) τ Boötis => tau Boötis
 * 28) υ Boötis => upsilon Boötis
 * 29) φ Boötis => phi Boötis
 * 30) χ Boötis => chi Boötis
 * 31) ψ Boötis => psi Boötis
 * 32) ω Boötis => omega Boötis
 * 33) λ Boötis star => lambda Boötis star
 * 34) τ Boötis b => Tau Boötis b
 * ✅ —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:40, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Looks good.  Lithopsian (talk) 10:22, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

User pages
Foreign language user pages need to be blacklisted. For example, seems to be tring to create user pages for his students but is creating them in the Utente: namespace (which isn't a namespace on enwiki) so they end up as unwanted articles with silly names. The following prefixes (out of many, I haven't figured out how to quickly create a complete list) ought to be blocked from creation: 16 & 17 look the same to me, but they came from different wikis. -- Cabayi (talk) 16:48, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * If I copy #17 and paste it into Ctrl+F, I find that it's identical to #16 and also to #12. Nyttend (talk) 01:42, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * in addition to above, this is also not ready to add as if you could add it yourself. Of course this can still be discussed here, and when it is ready you can reactivate the request tag above. —  xaosflux  Talk 03:59, 26 January 2019 (UTC)


 * In sanskrit, hindi, and Marathi (among few other languages) सदस्य of #15, and 18 means member, and प्रयोगकर्ता of #12, 16, an 17 means operator. — usernamekiran (talk)   22:57, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * 1) Användare:
 * 2) Benutzer:
 * 3) Bruker:
 * 4) Gebruiker:
 * 5) Pengguna:
 * 6) sadasya:
 * 7) Usuario:
 * 8) Usuário(a):
 * 9) Utente:
 * 10) Utilisateur:
 * 11) Utilizator:
 * 12) प्रयोगकर्ता:
 * 13) Χρήστης:
 * 14) સભ્ય:
 * 15) सदस्य:
 * 16) ಸದಸ್ಯ:
 * 17) ഉപയോക്താവ്:
 * 18) பயனர்:
 * 19) వాడుకరి:
 * 20) Участник:

So here's our list. Assuming it's not hard to do the regex, is there any reason not to add them? I can't say there will never be a situation, but I can't currently imagine a situation in which we'd want to have an article begin with any of these phrases, and if there is such a situation, an ordinary "override the blacklist" request at WP:AN should work. Nyttend (talk) 23:04, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Regexed list in syntaxhighlight block below (blank line ahead of section, leading space on each line, trailing wildcard .*). Explanatory comment added. Duplicates removed. Request reactivated.
 * syntaxhighlight is suppressing display of the leading blank line.


 * -- Cabayi (talk) 09:41, 2 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Deactivating - I've figured out how to get the complete list, starting from a list of wikis and the fact that they all recognise User:. This may take a while. Cabayi (talk) 10:23, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Reactivating - here's the full list, deduped


 * -- Cabayi (talk) 13:36, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-non-English-userpage is the error message. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 19:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks . I set up a list at Special:Permalink/881920122 to test the regex and a few slipped through...
 * Bruger:Bazj, Bruker:Bazj, and Brukar:Bazj
 * which is my fault -  should have been   (final e needs to be removed)
 * Agar-aramat:Bazj, Uza-na'in:Bazj, and Iōng-chiá:Bazj
 * does the - need to be escaped?
 * Χρήστης:Bazj
 * looks like I mistakenly removed from the regex when deduping - it looks very similar to Χρήστες which was caught. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 18:08, 5 February 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ For the hyphenated ones, the hyphen was missing above. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks . All working now. Cabayi (talk) 08:44, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

ʻOkina again
I just tried to move Punalu'u Beach to Punaluʻu Beach, but I hit the following filter: If I'm reading this right, this bans titles that combine Latin and non-Latin script, but only when moving. This is bizarre - ʻokina is definitely part of the Latin script for Hawaiian. I note that this subject was brought up here previously (2012) but nothing was done. Hairy Dude (talk) 02:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There's also a request at WP:RM/TR to move Keaweʻopala to Keaweʻōpala over a redirect, but I can't move it because it says the redirect is on the title blacklist. Station1 (talk) 19:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * done; template editors and admins can do it. I suppose it might be possible to add okina to the latin characters in that regex or add it to the Mediawiki:Titlewhitelist, at-least if this comes up often enough. Galobtter (pingó mió) 19:44, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I encountered several okina moves last month. This is a problem because it required marking for administrator attention, but the moves were eventually completed. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 22:14, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Remove the ʻOkina symbol from the pagemove prevention filter rule discussed above. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 18:17, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * [V]arious apostrophe(-like) variants (’ʻ ʾ ʿ ᾿ ῾ ‘ ’ c), should generally not be used in page titles. That includes the ʻokina. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:57, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I suggest you start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article titles. If there is consensus that 'okina is acceptable for article titles, then we can get the rule removed here. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:43, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The okina is widely used in article titles and there have been multiple technical requests to put the okina into titles, these were completed. Special:Permalink/855300030 is one such request. The okina is widely used in titles such as Oʻzbekiston Jumhuriyati, Oʻahu nukupuʻu, Oʻahu ʻōʻō, and others. &mdash; Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 14:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I've reactivated this request. The text quoted by JJMC89 is not definitive enough ("generally") to justify an entry in the Titleblacklist. The Titleblacklist is a "never" list, not a "discourage" list. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:15, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * please specific the exact change to be made, with line numbers if possible &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Seems like we want to add  to MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist to make this work. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:18, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * That wouldn't work - it'd mean exempting all articles that contain the okina from all rules; I've ✅ the fix in . Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

casesensitive control characters
Hi!

Why are some of the control character patterns (such as \x{00AD}) marked as casesensitive? For performance reasons? -- seth (talk) 21:10, 28 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Safety reasons. There have been some unexpected encounters with case-folding that prevented titles containing the letter "k", or a space, or other common things.  Adding the "case sensitive" restriction means that people editing the list don't need to think about the arcana of Unicode case conversion rules. --Carnildo (talk) 02:21, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

CARIFORUM-UK Economic Partnership Agreement
Hi! I'm trying to move the clumsily-named page UK-CARIFORUM (Trade Block)economic partnership to CARIFORUM-UK Economic Partnership Agreement but am unable as the title is apparently on the Titleblacklist. Could anyone help? Many thanks, Gazamp (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It appears the first-mentioned page has been moved to draft-space so this request is moot. Stifle (talk) 13:56, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Problem with Editor's user pages
Hello, Titleblacklist watchers,

Right now, new editor User:Love vashikaran specialist aghori baba can not edit their own user and user talk page because of a title blacklist for "*vashikaran.* # Indian astrology/magic advertising". Can I remove this element from the Titleblacklist, as long as this editor is active? It seems unfair that they can't make use of their own user pages and other editors can not leave messages for them. Liz Read! Talk! 02:40, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, now I'm confused as a regular editor has now left another message on this editor's user talk page. I don't think I understand how this title blacklist works as I'm sure I saw a pink message saying only admins and template editors could edit the page. Liz Read! Talk! 02:49, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * you could add that specific user: page to the MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist instead of removing the entire pattern here. I haven't gone through all the logic to see if there is a bypass on user_talk for that right now, or if the namespace isn't working yet. —  xaosflux  Talk 03:21, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * OK - so it looks like that pattern is only protected against creation, not editing (our local message is a bit wrong) - the talk page works because a sysop created it. I've created the userpage and usersandbox - so this will take care of the basic stuff.  If they will need to create other subpages this will come up again, so you can go the whitelist route for the more specific pattern. —  xaosflux  Talk 03:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I made the warning (MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-warning) a bit more broad as well. — xaosflux  Talk 03:31, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * That user is blocked as an LTA (and the reason the phrase appears in the TBL). Basically spamming for love sorcery cross-wiki... CrowCaw 22:42, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess that takes care of that! "Love sorcery", huh? That is more interesting that our typical DJ & Marketing spammers.
 * Thank you, Xaosflux and Crow for responding to my query. Liz Read! Talk! 01:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 26 June 2019
Please replace the following lines:""...with the following...""...In addition, please move Draft:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-Education-Program-namespace to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-Education-Program-namespace (without leaving a redirect). This should make an edit notice appear when someone attempts to create a page in the "Education Program:" namespace. Thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 16:31, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinging Xaosflux since they are familiar with this entry. Steel1943  (talk) 16:33, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 16:34, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 22 August 2019
At RfD, we came across a redirect containing a word joiner (U+2060). The redirect is Fernando Zor& ending with four copies of the word joiner. Since this non-printing character isn't on the blacklist, I request that it be added under the "OTHER UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERS" section, along with the many other non-printing characters that are not yet on the blacklist; go through Unicode/Character reference to find them all. (Enter "%E2%81%A0" into your URL bar to go to a title with a word joiner; the same technique works with all non-printing characters, via their UTF-8 codepoint.) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 03:52, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. I think this will require a custom warning message. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 03:54, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ as to the immediate edit request, discussion can certainly continue below, including dealing with the need to build any custom messages in support. — xaosflux  Talk 13:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Related discussion on WP:SALT
I started a discussion on when / how the Title Blacklist should be used; since the closest relevant policy is WP:SALT, and since the protection policy page's talk seems likely to be far more trafficked than this one, I put the discussion there even though it's obviously relevant here as well. Adding a notice here so people who actually use the Title Blacklist system can weigh in - I think we need at least a few sentences in WP:SALT (or somewhere) elaborating on what the title blacklist system is for, since currently I couldn't find anything. (Or, if there are instructions somewhere, it needs to link to them.) --Aquillion (talk) 07:32, 11 November 2019 (UTC)