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WATCH Recent filter changes (): Filter 1014 — Flags: enabled; Pattern modified Last changed at 17:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC) Filter 1122 — Actions: disallow Last changed at 00:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC) Filter 1305 (new) — Actions: throttle; Flags: enabled,private; Pattern modified Last changed at 01:16, 5 May 2024 (UTC) This is the edit filter noticeboard, for coordination and discussion of edit filter use and management. If you wish to request an edit filter, please post at Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested. If you would like to report a false positive, please post at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives. Private filters should not be discussed in detail here; please email an edit filter manager if you have specific concerns or questions about the content of hidden filters. There are currently 322 enabled filters and 46 stale filters with no hits in the past 30 days. Filter condition use is ~983, out of a maximum of 2000. (). See also the profiling data and edit filter graphs. Click here to start a new discussion thread

Filter 1304

• 1304 (hist · log) ("Rapid disruption V", private)

Untested and will probably need some tweaks. Please do not discuss details here, but set to disallow if needed without asking me. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Another reminder to not discuss private filters like this one publicly. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, that's going to need major tweaks before anyone even considers setting that one to disallow. Might as well consider that one a sort of emergency filter at the current state until it's far more built. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 02:54, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Filter 139

• 139 (hist · log) ("Fixed position vandalism", private)

Please do not discuss here (of course), but if anyone with access could pop an explanation in the filter notes or via email as to why this is hidden, I would appreciate it. I don't currently see any reason for it to be so, but I may be missing something right in front of my eyes. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 16:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

It's because it's an LTA filter, pretty sure: Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard/Archive_10#139. – 2804:F14:80C8:4701:20D2:F905:5323:F028 (talk) 21:26, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

This is from before my time, but I guess I'd call it slightly higher-effort vandalism than "skbidbdidi gyattt sigma". I think people doing that sort of thing, even if they aren't technically LTAs, are the sort who would find the filter and maybe even understand it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Indeed. A little background, which I have a lot more of: The note added 28 June 2011 contains a distinct keyword, a (ns: 0|4) search of which can lead to some additional info. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:53, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

{{Edit filter manager granted}} template

Just a standard notification, but feel free to make any additional changes if you want to this template. Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 02:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Prevent users from adding middle fingers in user space

Per subject, personally I feel that middle finger emoji is inappropriate Wikipedia itself, noting how it is often used for talk page vandalism, I suggest here after a talk that filter 680 (or any other appropriate filter) should block middle finger emojis (and potentially other emojis being added by non-autoconfirmed/IP) from userspace, not just mainspace. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:24, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I recommend adding it to 1053 (hist · log) and have a possible filter change, if any EFM wants to take a look mail me. Nobody (talk) 06:53, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Abuse filters for tagging speedy and PROD deletions

Right now it is a pain to filter deleted edits. I think the abuse filter should tag speedy deletions and PRODs to help find groups of pages that were deleted together.

For example, if one were to type in speedy-g6 in the "tags" field, then in the deletion log all the pages deleted under G6 should be visible. It would help with stuff like identifying the frequency of use of speedy criteria as well as allowing for searching of PRODs, etc. It possibly could also be done for XfDs. Awesome Aasim 17:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

It's not impossible, but I question the necessity of tagging every speedy deletion. Are there specific CSD criterion you're looking for, and/or a reason you're specifically looking for them? EggRoll97 ^(talk) 21:24, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I was searching for G6 (I tagged a few pages for G6 yesterday and wanted to see if they were deleted, but I forgot the page title), but there is no way to search the deletion log by summary. The abuse filter tagging would really help. We would just need about as many filters as there are speedy criteria. Awesome Aasim 22:37, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That sounds like a better job for a bot. I don't think this is worth using up 50 conditions, out of 2000. And a bot could apply tags retroactively. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:20, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Do you think that would be something good for a WP:BRFA? Tagging items and revisions in deletion logs and etc. to make searching easier, to avoid running up against condition limits? Awesome Aasim 16:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Off the top of my head, I don't see any major issues. My first concern was that the tagging would add clutter to people's watchlists, but based on a quick test, manually adding a tag does not show up there. There may be some other problems I haven't thought of yet. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 17:39, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I mean, you're talking about retroactively adding millions of tags (there exist ~15.5 million non-suppressed deletion logs on this project) with no clear rationale as to the usefulness of this. Identifying the frequency of use of speedy criteria can be done with trivial queries to the replica database. Finding pages you've nominated can be done with Twinkle's CSD log. Searching the deletion log by summary can be done on the replica database as well, and there's an argument to be made this would be better off as a suggested feature for MediaWiki rather than this mass-tagging exercise. Uhai (talk) 03:24, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

@Awesome Aasim Reach out at WP:RAQ or consider enabling Twinkle's CSD logging at Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences#speedy to monitor pages you've nominated. Uhai (talk) 02:44, 9 May 2024 (UTC)