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So what is this page supposed to do? The Wikimon (talk) 14:23, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page is a complement to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, as well as the global blacklists on (I believe) Meta. Any page matching a pattern on this page will be allowed to be created, even if it would otherwise be blocked by one of the blacklists. As an example: a while ago, User:7&6=thirteen was having issues creating a sandbox in his user space. IIRC, this happened because the global title blacklist on Meta disallows the creation of pages with the characters "&" and "=" in them (those characters have special meanings when placed in web addresses). So, I put an entry into the whitelist here that overrides the blacklist entry, allowing 7&6=thirteen to create subpages in his userspace despite the blacklist. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Makes whole lotta sense now! And more importantly its not meant or me! The Wikimon (talk) 15:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 6 April 2024

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Please add the following entry to the title whitelist: Template:Editnotices/(Page|Group)/User( talk)?:.*.

The reason is it is better to detect editing of other user's editnotices through abuse filters that can disallow the edits. Something similar to this:

! "sysop" in user_groups & ! "templateeditor" in user_groups & ! "extendedmover" in user_groups & page_prefixedtitle rlike "(Template:Editnotices\/(Page|Group)\/User( talk)?:.*|User( talk)?:.*\/Editnotice|User:.*/Emailnotice)" & ! page_prefixedtitle rlike "(Template:Editnotices\/(Page|Group)\/User( talk)?:" + user_name + "(\/.*)?|User( talk)?:" + user_name + "(\/.*)?\/Editnotice|User:" + user_name + "\/Emailnotice)"

If an abuse filter manager can create a filter for that that would be helpful. You can snipe MediaWiki_talk:Abusefilter-disallowed-editnotice/sandbox if you'd like for that message. Awesome Aasim 17:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done why would we use an expensive abusefilter when the cheap blacklist works? — xaosflux ^Talk 18:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux It is a very contrived case because users should be permitted to edit group and page notices for their own userspace without help from administrators. Some admins already do that for themselves. See Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Editnotices/Page/User: and Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Editnotices/Group/User:. Awesome Aasim 18:41, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit requests are sufficient here. — xaosflux ^Talk 21:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, in any case, giving second thought this request likely would need consensus. So that is another reason for you doing  Not done. Awesome Aasim 22:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 18 November 2024

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Let's simplify ^.*:?Minecraft servers.*$ to .*Minecraft servers.*—:? is redundant with .*, and ^ and $ are redundant, because the title blacklist extension requires the whole page name to match (and even if it didn't, ^ and $ would be redundant with .* at the beginning and end). TTWIDEE (talk) 09:22, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done And I also fixed the rule by changing it from plural to singular to match the article. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:13, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]