Wikipedia talk:Edit filter/Archive 8

Query on Edit Filters

Hello, Edit Filter folks,

I was looking for information on a certain filter, I'm an admin but I have no special edit filter access, and could only find Wikipedia:Edit filter/Current which is years out of date. Is there a more current directory of filters? I'm sure there are private edit filters that you wouldn't have listed but I don't think the one I'm looking for is particularly sensitive. It seems like there should be a category or a list somewhere. Thanks for any help you can offer. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:37, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I guess I should state that I'm not requesting an edit filter be made (there's a page for that), just looking for more information about the edit filters that are currently in place that aren't restricted to those with special permissions. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:38, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: I'm not aware of any such list, but then I wasn't even aware of that page you mentioned. You can get a list of all active filters on one page using this search. As an admin you can automatically view all filters. Using the 'search options' you could remove private filters from the list, or search for text within the filters rules (which is not always straightforward). Alternatively, if it's not sensitive, you could just ask at WP:EFN. -- zzuuzz ^(talk)

Yeah Special:AbuseFilter has the list. BTW, is there any magic words or automated process that can keep Wikipedia:Edit filter/Current to date? And should we change the template used on it too? Do we even need this page? 67.21.154.193 (talk) 13:51, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

If no one objects, I could make a bot that periodically updates this info. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 16:15, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Liz - I know that I'm barging in on this "discussion party" late, but did you find the information you were looking for? ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 14:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

I was blocked when I added an opera star as a notable person from Versailles, Kentucky.

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Michelle Bradley, a young African American opera singer, is an international opera star. She just sang the role of AIDA at the Metropolitan Opera. I tried to add her name to Notable People from Versailles, Kentucky, and I was blocked in grounds that I was adding myself, family, or friends. This is false. Google her.

Diane Ravitch Breezybluff2022 (talk) 02:55, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

See reply at your Talk page. Mathglot (talk) 09:36, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Moved to User talk:Breezybluff2022 § Your message about being blocked

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A filter to catch inexperienced users edits on thier talk page when they add an article sized text

Hi, Is there any filter to catch edits where users go to their talk page and add slightly or very long medium article sized text? Sometimes when a user is inexperienced or his/her article has been deleted several times, he/she posts the article on his/her talk page, and such edits should be tagged or even prevented. I didn't have the right to see some of the filters. Thanks! ⇒ AramTalk 16:50, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

@Aram: To my knowledge, there is no filter like this. It would be difficult to design one, and I frankly doubt it would work very well. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Simple filter request

Hi, please can we have a filter for additions of the term "sexual predator"? There might be the odd false positive but there are very legitimate reasons for that phrase to be added to an existing article. The filter doesn't even necessarily need to take any action; we could just get the bot to report all hits to AIV for review by a human admin. See this IP and this account from today, but this is an LTA who has been doing it on and off for months. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:57, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

@HJ Mitchell: You might want to look at whether filter 1181 could be apropos, as well as Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/CalebHughes. Also a pro-tip: Caleb creates an account, then gets the IP soft blocked, then uses the account on the same IP. Thus you usually want to hard block the IP. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 12:12, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: Thanks for the tip! I usually just revert, block, ignore without really caring which loony it is but hard blocking the IPs is definitely worth knowing. 1181 seems to be catching it all; can we just add that to DatBot's list? If it starts disallowing, he'll probably just change his MO but hopefully reporting to AIV will mean he gets blocked sooner. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:40, 14 March 2023 (UTC)