User talk:HBC NameWatcherBot/Whitelist

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Feel free to make suggestions folks, this bot is only as good as the info we give it. Until(1 == 2) 06:13, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Names for whitelist[edit]

  • "Nordyke" checkY - non-unusual surname, matched "dyke". SamBC(talk) 19:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Carfagno" checkY - another surname, matched "fag". SamBC(talk) 21:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Done, thanks. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 06:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Faghri checkY - another surname, matched "fag" SamBC(talk) 11:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Done, thanks. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 15:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shitiz checkY - another name, but I can see that it might not want to be whitelisted due to phonetic similarity to a possibly common profane turn of phrase. SamBC(talk) 16:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Someone added it. I think it should be whitelisted, better to let the bot miss names than get false positives. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 04:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Scunthorpe checkY - place name in the UK. Surprised it wasn't there already, tbh. SamBC(talk) 10:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes... I remember reading about that. I'll do it right now. Grandmasterka 21:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shitemi checkY - oriental name (japanese I think). SamBC(talk) 09:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • prone checkY - normal word, but matches porn as "pron". SamBC(talk) 01:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good ones thanks. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 01:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Diwanker checkY - name, looks like subcontintental, to judge by google results. SamBC(talk) 14:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good, we need all the names we can find. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 14:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shitaki checkY (or other spellings thereof?) - a type of mushroom. SamBC(talk) 01:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the last letter to get both spellings. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 04:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Anshita checkY - subcontinental name SamBC(talk) 02:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Added. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 04:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Prasatporn checkY - name. SamBC(talk) 17:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ding. ((1 == 2) ? (('Stop') : ('Go')) 04:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Phosphate ☒N - normal word, matches "hate". SamBC(talk) 22:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hate is not on the blacklist, so whitelisting it would have no effect. 1 != 2 07:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's what the report on the bot bit of UAA said was the problem... or I might have been half-asleep... I'll investigate. SamBC(talk) 19:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, here we are: [1] shows the report. SamBC(talk) 19:14, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Whatever - also matches "hate", which is in fact on the blacklist (see "Phosphate" section above) Is he back? (talk) 13:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, not sure how I missed that, I thought it was not there in the blacklist, but it was. I removed it as there is a list longer than my arm with the four letters h,a,t,e next to each other. Please discuss if you disagree. (1 == 2)Until 14:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Grapes ☒N- matches "rapes". SamBC(talk) 20:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nazih checkY - many people worldwide have this as a given name. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 17:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • ClickHere ☒N - Matches literal pattern lickHer as false positive. Can someone please fix this? --frogger3140 (talk) 20:41, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not sure why we would want to allow "clickhere", looks like something a banner ad would say. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 17:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of redundant entry[edit]

"sparse" seems redundant, since "parse" should catch it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 17:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove the word "Pass" from the whitelist[edit]

{{editprotected}} Please remove the word "Pass" from the whitelist. It made my name slip past the bot, dispite containing the blacklisted word "Poop". The bot won't catch Poopass (talk) 06:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you considered the level of false positives that would be added if "pass" was not whitelisted? Chillum 13:08, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"Pass" was probably added for a reason. It should probably not be removed without some discussion, so deactivating request for now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:45, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Poopass likely got through by the software accepting overlapping substrings. I thought that it was meant to catch cases where the blacklisted substring is INSIDE the whitelisted substring, for example "nazi" in "ashkenazi". Should this bit of the software be reprogrammed? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:01, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No big deal. The bot was never designed to catch every bad name. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 17:02, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion[edit]

scrapper

(getting caught by crapper) King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is no opposition, I'm adding it to the whitelist. (On second thought, "scrapping" and "scrapped" also get caught, so might as well make it "scrap.") -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:58, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gizmo/Gismo[edit]

  • What percentage of these are false positives? This may involve the blacklist as well, as usernames like "Gism on the bay" or "Gism of life" (neither with spaces) would still be considered rude. This may eliminate many false positives, but not falses like "Gismo freak" or "Gismo neutron". mechamind90 03:42, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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