The page title that you have attempted to create has been included on the local title blacklist, which prevents it from being used due to abuse.
If you have a good reason for creating a page with this title, or if you receive this message when attempting to edit an existing page, please let us know at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Be sure to specify the exact title of the page you are trying to create or edit, as well as a brief explanation of what you were trying to do. Thank you.
{{sudo}} Could we add a mention of the global blacklist as well, over at m:Title blacklist, which also triggers this same error. On another note, it would be very useful if these MW error messages included the MW page for the message itself; these are a pain to find. Cheers, HiDrNick! 21:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am requesting that an administrator change "It matches an entry on the local or global blacklists" to "It matches a regular expression on the local or global title blacklists". I am also requesting that an administrator remove "or edit" because it does not control which edits are made. -- IRP☎01:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: I don't see the advantages of either of these proposals. Most people don't know what regular expressions are, and interface messages should be as easily understood as possible. The reason that the "or edit" clause is in there is because the title blacklist can also prevent edits from being made to titles which are on the blacklist but have already been created.--Aervanath (talk) 06:09, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
{{Editprotected}} I believe my requested edit should be made for the following reason: I was unable to nominate User talk:! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Threeskin for deletion because the title blacklist was preventing me from doing so. After an administrator created the page for me, I was able to edit it without any error messages, which means that the title blacklist cannot control which edits are made. The other thing, even though most people don't know what a regular expression is, I requested that a link be provided to regular expression so anybody who doesn't know what it is can click on the link. -- IRP☎21:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I also don't really see the advantage of specifying how the titleblacklist is working. "An entry" seems, for the typical editor, really more useful than confusing with "regular expressions", even if it's linked. We already provide a link to the local blacklist, so for anyone interested he can find out more about what's behind it. Maybe we should have a help or project page explaining what it really is, and what it does, to provide better explanations? --Amalthea23:03, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Since Amalthea and I are both objecting to this, it's clear it doesn't have consensus. The reason IRP could edit the MfD page AFTER it was created by an admin was that editing had not been blocked for that particular entry on the list. Please see mw:Extension:Title Blacklist, which gives the technical capabilities of the list.--Aervanath (talk) 06:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Protected edit request on 17 July 2016
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I went to the creation of Pәrәmәç, and found out that the page can be created by template editors, which I am now a part of. So can you please replace the text with the following:
{{fmbox
|id = mw-protectedpagetext
|type = warning
|image = none
|text = The page title or edit you have tried to create has been restricted to administrators and template editors at this time. It matches an entry on the [[Mediawiki:Titleblacklist|local]] or [[m:Title blacklist|global]] blacklists, which is '''usually''' used to prevent vandalism.
If you receive this message when trying to edit, create or move an existing page, follow these instructions:
:* '''Any administrator or template editor can create or move this page for you.''' Please post a request at the [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard|Administrators' noticeboard]].
:* You may also contact any [[Special:ListUsers/sysop|administrator]] or [[Special:ListUsers/templateeditor|template editor]] on their [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines|talk page]] or by email.
:* Be sure to specify the '''exact title''' (especially by [[Help:Link|linking]] it) of the page you are trying to create or edit, and if it might be misunderstood (for example, an article with an unusual name), consider explaining briefly what you want to do.
:* If you wrote any text, '''save it temporarily on your computer''' until you can edit the page.
Thank you.
}}<!-- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-forbidden-edit -->
It may be technically true, but being totally unrelated to template editing, I'm not sure it is worth making the point here? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:02, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The first sentence says "The page title or edit you have tried to create has been restricted to administrators at this time. It matches an entry on the local or global blacklists, which is usually used to prevent vandalism." Template editors can also override the title blacklist, in addition to administrators. Can the first sentence be changed to "The page title or edit you have tried to create has been restricted to template editors and administrators at this time. It matches an entry on the local or global blacklists, which is usually used to prevent vandalism.", as well as changing the first two bullet points to:
Any template editor or administrator can create or move this page for you. Please post a request at the Administrators' noticeboard.
You may also contact any template editor or administrator on their talk page or by email.
While this may be true I'm not sure how relevant it is to the titleblacklist. Template editors are granted the right based on their ability to edit templates correctly. Using them for this purpose may not be appropriate. Why not leave the message to its current and simpler version? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:21, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Should we change the notice to include the $1 and $2 parameters which indicates the blacklisted entry like the following: Suggestion
The page title $2 you have tried to create has been restricted to administrators at this time. It matches the entry $1 on the local or global blacklist, which is usually used to prevent vandalism.
If you receive this message when trying to edit, create or move an existing page, follow these instructions:
Any administrator can create or move this page for you. Please post a request at the Administrators' noticeboard.
Be sure to specify the exact title (especially by linking it) of the page you are trying to create or edit, and if it might be misunderstood (for example, an article with an unusual name), consider explaining briefly what you want to do.
If you wrote any text, save it temporarily on your computer until you can edit the page.
Be sure to specify the exact title (especially by linking it) of the page you are trying to edit, and if it might be misunderstood (for example, an article with an unusual name), consider explaining briefly what you want to do.
If you wrote any text, save it temporarily to your computer or phone until you can edit the page.
Thank you.
Reasons:
The wording is awkward. The wording I am requesting is more concise.
There is no way to know which blacklist entry was tripped. This is problematic when there are errors on the local or global blacklists. The extendedconfirmed-show makes sure that well-established users can always see the entry tripped.
The changes I made automatically detect whether to use "create" or "edit" depending on whether the page is editable. Aasim00:04, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Looks good/uncontroversial to me. I changed "computer or phone" to "device" because I thought it's a bit simpler. Is it really wise to suggest contacting an individual admin (I realise you didn't change this part)? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:59, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, it is the fact that the thing is in a template that breaks the message. Maybe use direct HTML instead of the template? Aasim15:15, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reopening edit request. @MSGJ please replace the mbox with this code as it does not break the messages when there are regular expressions with pipe characters:
Editing of this page ($2) is currently restricted to administrators because the page title matches an entry $1 on the local or global blacklists. If you receive this message when trying to edit, create or move an existing page, follow these instructions:
Done. Does that work now? (I also removed the bullet point about contacting a random admin because I don't think that is likely to be successful. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:11, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MSGJ About that pipe escaping thing with the title blacklist messages, I started a Phabricator bug report because there isn't a good way to work around this issue: phab:T350296. I suspect this may be a larger problem with how MediaWiki passes parameters to system messages. AwesomeAasim18:36, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As a note, this workaround may break at an arbitrary point in the future when mboxes are made to be no longer tables. I will do what I can to remember this when the glorious conversion happens. Izno (talk) 15:49, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Protected edit request on 22 January 2021
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Please change “is currently restricted to administrators” to “could not be completed”. Page movers and template editors have the ability to override the tb, so the first message is incorrect. 54nd60x (talk) 00:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno: "Any administrator can create/edit this page for you" is not incorrect, but posting request on AN is more likely to be watched, so I don't think that message needs to be changed. 54nd60x (talk) 21:21, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno: Sorry, but can you please clarify what that means? If you have alternate non-admin account or if you log out, and you try to edit a blacklisted page like 1&2=3, it does give a link to AN. 54nd60x (talk) 00:51, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The text I am asking about is:
<li>'''Any administrator can {{#ifexist:$2|edit|create}} this page for you.''' Please {{#ifexist:$2|{{submit an edit request/link|display=submit an edit request}}|post a request at the [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard|Administrators' noticeboard]] or on the {{submit an edit request/link|display=talk page}}}}.</li>
Then I don't agree with the change above either. If the rationale is "not just admins", then that applies equally to the bullet below. --Izno (talk) 02:00, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno: How about changing "Any administrator can create this page for you" to "Any administrator, template editor, or page mover can create this page for you?" But wouldn't that seem to wordy? 54nd60x (talk) 02:24, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@MSGJ: You made a comment above that consistency was needed w/ this message about template editors/admins. I agree that consistency is needed w/ this message, but I don’t know how to reword it. 54nd60x (talk) 06:26, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, I just looked at the title blacklist and saw that some entries can actually be created/edited by autoconfirmed users as well, with <autoconfirmed>. Considering that, to fix the message is too complex so for now I will mark this edit request as closed. 54nd60x (talk) 07:13, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Protected edit request on 2 October 2022
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Remove <span class="extendedconfirmed-show"> and </span> from the interface message. Reason: Unless there is a specific reason not to, I don't see why only extended-confirmed users should be able to see the blacklist entry. Railtransportfan (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Reactivating edit request. I don't know what you mean by "full pile of full protects" to evaluate first. In any case reactivating to get further input. AwesomeAasim18:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see a pile of full protected here. It looks like aside from {{FULLROOTPAGENAME}} which is used all over the MediaWiki namespace and should be full protected anyway {{Protected page text/blacklist}} is the only one needing full protection. That said I'm not convinced this needs to be done at all as the title blacklist is a different thing from full protection, and feel this major change to the interface may benefit from more discussion, so am not granting this myself. * Pppery *it has begun...20:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux Of course not. Titleblacklist does not full protect a title; just template protects it. The reason for using the "create protect" lock though is because in essence titleblacklist prevents the creation of a group of titles by anyone except template editors and administrators. The current system of locks does a terrible job at conveying that. AwesomeAasim19:11, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Protected edit request on 13 April 2024
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Not done proposed changes would need to be sandboxed and tested prior to implementation. Feel free to continue to discuss improvements in this section. — xaosfluxTalk13:53, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These changes will display the most relevant reason why a page is not editable. Since blacklisting is done for the same reasons stipulated in the Project:Protection policy, having the same consistent notice for both isn't bad. The change might look weird in MediaWiki: space, but I already checked these messages will display correctly on protected pages. AwesomeAasim19:31, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
