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The associated page is used by the TitleBlacklist MediaWiki extension, and lists strings of regular expressions that may not be used as page titles or usernames on any Wikimedia projects. Any Meta-Wiki administrator or steward can edit this blacklist.

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Remove caseless modifiers

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Since TitleBlacklist extension is case insensitive by default, I propose to simplify the regex patterns as done in [1]. Dalba 02:56, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't feel competent to be able to comment, I would suggest that you get the support of native speakers who are administrators to pass comment. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:07, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tested positive

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I propose modifying the line .*tests? positive.* to .*test(s|ed)? positive.* as an obvious workaround. LaundryPizza03 (talk) 15:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@LaundryPizza03: What battle are we facing? Can you get support of your local administrators to support a change. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:09, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fix pseudo IPs rule

Despite:

# fake ipv4
.*(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}.*        <newaccountonly>
 [^:]+:(?:[OoIl0-9]{1,3}\.){3}.*         <newaccountonly> # no pseudo IP adresses

I have recently locked Special:CentralAuth/57.124.З2.45 and some more following that pattern. We should amend the rule to prevent this from happening. Ping @Lustiger seth and Billinghurst. Thanks, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:47, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hi!

for digits [0-9] we could use [0-9\x{ff10}-\x{ff19}OΟОՕＯoοо༠ｏIlշЗ༢༣༥Ց৪] (but there are still probably many more)

furthermore: what about ipv6? there we should add [A-Fa-fАВСЕасе] and many more.[2] -- seth (talk) 11:06, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This aligns with Talk:Title blacklist/Archives/2020#Circled and parenthesized Latin letters. MA I will send you an IRC memo. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]