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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:

===Filter name===
*'''Task''': What is the filter supposed to do? To what pages and editors does it apply?
*'''Reason''': Why is the filter needed.
- ~~~~

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 Misplaced Pages.
• 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.

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Current requests

Long-term subtle vandalism

• Task: Block addition of the following names to any artilce.
  • James Couch
  • Al "Oatmeal" Edwards, Al Edwards Oatmeal
  • Mike Geselbracht
  • Adams Hambüger-Hatt, Adam Hambüger-Hatt
  • Adams Madrid, Adam Madrid, Adam Gama-Madrid
• Reason: Long-term subtle vandalism by IP hopping vandal (mostly from CitiCorp IPs) as reported by Axolotl Nr.733 (talk · contribs) at the village pump here. Thanks. 64.40.54.97 (talk) 11:29, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Block new threads on user pages

• Task: Block the creation of new (signed) sections on non-subpage User pages; for example: <https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?diff=486999506&oldid=486370198>. This filter should be run in "dry mode" for a while to ensure that there aren't (m)any false positives.
• Reason: Users have a tendency to post talk page messages in the wrong namespace.

Thanks! --MZMcBride (talk) 17:51, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Navin Harris

• Task: Disallow the phrase "Navin Harris" from being added to an article — either barring the edit or just insta-reverting.
• Reason: A serial vandal who uses several IP ranges has been adding "Navin Harris" as a backing vocalist credit to Let Me Be There and If You Love Me (Let Me Know). As confirmed on ANI, Navin is actually the vandal's name. Given that the vandal uses several ranges, an IP block is ineffective, and locking the article only works for so long, because the vandal always returns the instant the article is unlocked.

- Ten Pound Hammer • 18:26, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Spam or article writing in category space

• Task: Trigger on edits to category space that add significant (300 bytes?) of text or any external links. Depending on false positive rate in testing, exempt trusted users. Set to warn. Publicly viewable.
• Reason: Category pages should usually not have lengthy text or external links except to define its scope. Many category pages are lightly monitored and these types of edits can go undetected for months. A simple filter could identify many of these. Since these are often due to a misunderstanding of the correct way to populate a category rather than intentional vandalism, a filter set to warn would be effective.

- Kilopi (talk) 20:53, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Could you provide links of this occurring? It does not seem to be a common occurance. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I found some today: 4 months 6 months 1 month 15 months. There's also a bunch I did as an IP last year. At any given time, you can probably find a few new ones in this RC query. Kilopi (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Hindi Text

• Task: It will prevent any edit with the following Hindi/devanagari text like in this edit:.

* सर्व शिक्षा मातृभाषामा नहुनु सुक्ष्म गतिमा दस हुनु हो 
* मातृभाषाको सम्मान राष्ट्रको सम्मान 
* माताको दुध शिशुलाई शिक्षा मातृभाषामा प्रभाव पर्छ सृष्टिलाई प्रकाशको गतिमा 

• Reason: This editor is a serial vandal who adds these four lines of Hindi text (his views/slogans on mother tongue education) to language and India related articles. He uses a dynamic IP and has been doing this for a couple of years. Some of them are caught by cluebot but many slip through because of his sheer persistence.--Sodabottle (talk) 02:25, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
  • Comment. Not all additions appear to have the striking pattern of the three examples above. The commonality I see is that the added text contains a preponderance of Unicode Devanagari characters (U+0900 – U+097F) and further only blank space and wiki markup, or in any case no alphanumeric characters.  --Lambiam 18:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
  • After studying some more of the IPs contributions, it seems that the string "प्रभाव पर्छ सृष्टिलाई प्रकाशको गतिमा" occurs in almost all, so simply filtering on this may be enough to stop these additions.  --Lambiam 20:38, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
• Ping. Anybody home?  --Lambiam 10:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
  • How are these not being caught by filter 346?? Someguy1221 (talk) 02:24, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Template:Cleanup

As Template_talk:Cleanup#Should_the_reason_parameter_be_made_mandatory rfc it may be a goo idea to inform editors adding {{Cleanup}} wikicode that they should provide reason for their tagging, it may be also a good idea to tag their edit Bulwersator (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

 Not done I don't think this is a good job for an edit filter. Just make the template spit out a big red {{error}} message if {{{reason}}} is undefined. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Changing URL in external link without changing display name

• Task: To tag edits made by IP addresses / non-autoconfirmed / non-confirmed users which involve changing the URL of an external link without changing the title (display name).
• Reason: This is a tactic which could potentially be used by spammers and vandals to make uconstructive edits. The URL of an external link is changed to a website affiliated to the editor making the change (which is not allowed according to Misplaced Pages's spam policy), a website used for advertising or promotion, a website not related to the article or its subject, or a website containing malicious code such as a virus. But the display name is not changed, so viewers may think that the link is unchanged or safe, but when they click on the link they are directed to the wrong site. Also because such edits cannot easily be identified, it would take a long time to revert such edits. I have not seen any such links, but I have seen something similar to this, which has been mentioned in another filter that I have requested.
  

- Jfd34 (talk | contribs) 08:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

 Not done This seems very rare. Additionally, new users commonly fix broken links. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:40, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Changing URL in citation template without changing title

• Task: To tag edits made by IP addresses / non-autoconfirmed / non-confirmed users which involve changing the |url= parameter in a citation template without changing the |title= parameter.
• Reason: In an edit made to 2012 Asia Cup on 26 March 2012 17:25 (UTC), 182.177.32.10 changed the |url= parameter in one of the references from

http://www.espncricinfo.com/asia-cup-2012/content/ground/236761.html

to the following URL:

http://sellgoldcoinsprices.com/asia-cup-bangladesh-put-sri-lanka-in-to-bat/

But did not change the title (display name). This makes viewers think that the reference has not been changed, but when they click on the link they are directed to the wrong site, which did not have any evidence about the claim referenced, and could also be spam. Fortunately, ClueBot NG, an anti-vandalism bot, reverted this edit but bots are automatic computer programs and cannot be relied on all the time, and some URLs may be treated as constructive by bots.
- Jfd34 (talk | contribs) 08:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

 Not done This seems very rare. Additionally, new users commonly fix broken links. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Neurorel

• Task: Disallow all edits containing any edit summaries with "Austin Gallaher", "Neurorel" or "Edgeform".
• Reason: For the past few months I've been revdeleting edit summaries made by a IP sockhopper. Their edit summaries seem to be outing an editor by announcing their real name. These edits span multiple articles, and the IPs jump around enough that rangeblocking isn't effective. For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I think it's become disruptive enough that an edit filter would be warranted.

- — HelloAnnyong 03:07, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

It is impossible to revdel the abuse filter entries, so I'm not sure we want outing recorded for anybody to see in the edit filter. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

That's true - but maybe it's better to have it just in the edit filter (where it's not indexed by search engines) rather than in mainspace edits? — HelloAnnyong 01:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

So...anybody else looking at this page? Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Any oversighters here? I can't even see these edits! Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:37, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

• This is not something suited to an edit filter, and I do not believe the relative infrequency of its occurrence justifies the "expense" of an edit filter. The appropriate action is to revision-delete it and report it to the Oversight mailing list for suppression where applicable. I'll note that this request itself is doing the very thing it intends to prevent. Risker (talk) 15:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Legal Threats

• Task: It will apply to autoconfirmed users and IP addresses. It looks for legal threats (obvious ones), and will Dissalow them, Warn (or block) the user and possibly revoke their permissions.
• Reason: I have seen quite a few legal threats around in the past 3 days, and I believe action is needed.

~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 19:30, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

 Not done There is no method to check for whether an edit constitutes a legal threat and no reason to block it anyway. We just block the user involved. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:34, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Completed requests

"Jew" in all capitals

• Task: Prevent anon editors inserting the word "JEW" in articles/talk pages.
• Reason: Although the word "Jew" can be used in constructive edits pertaining to the actual article and related ones, I've seen virtually no constructive IP edit that puts "JEW" in all caps. This is almost always used in an offensive way.

- Tyranitar Man (talk) 01:34, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:28, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Prevent recurring IP vandalism

• Task: Disallow all edits containing any of the following strings: "Charizard the Dragon", "Charizard Guy", "Charizard Colors", "Charizard Free Riders", "Charizard Generations", "Angel Combat", "Furry Warriors".
• Reason: A recurring IP vandal has repeatedly made multiple edits most often related to the strings listed above for around a year and a half. Because he changes IPs so frequently, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to keep him permanently blocked from editing. It's clear that he has no intention of making positive contributions, and a filter is the only means I can think of for preventing his actions. See the related SPI case for a list of previous IPs and edits. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 22:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done I won't mention the specific strings checked for, but it's in filter #58. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:03, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Denied requests

citation needed

• Task: Suggest edits containing "(citation needed)" actually refer to the template {{citation needed}}. This should apply to all pages, although just articles would do. Most existing examples have been added by IP editors, but some logged in editors have added this too.
• Reason: Once these non-template "templates" are added to articles they are hard to find -- at the point of editing is the best place to catch them. BTW see here for discussion of the general problem.

- Mark Hurd (talk) 15:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

•  Not done I can't see this as a particularly useful—it's more likely to make the IPs just not save their edit. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:55, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate words in all-caps that have been obfuscated

• Task: Disallow all edits from new and unregistered users that contain any string that includes one or more bad words typed in all-caps with the capital letters being separated by any number of lowercase letters. An example of an edit that this filter would stop can be seen here.
• Reason: Generally, if a user attempts to insert a bad word into an article in this manner, it's deliberate vandalism. Note that the example given above did not trip any existing filter.

- --SoCalSuperEagle (talk) 23:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

This would likely be too expensive. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

 Not done Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Copyvio

CorensearchBot does a great job, but it runs after the edit has been made. would it be possible to include this in the filter? I appreciate that there would be processing overheads, but could we get it at least partially in the filter, maybe by checking the first sentence of new articles? ϢereSpielChequers 08:11, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

 Not done As I mentioned on the Villge Pump page, it is not technically possible to search the internet with the edit filter. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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