Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested

Requested edit filters

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== Brief description of filter ==
*'''Task''': What is the filter supposed to do? To what pages and editors does it apply?
*'''Reason''': Why is the filter needed?
*'''Diffs''': Diffs of sample edits/cases. If the diffs are revdelled, consider emailing their contents to the mailing list.
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Log possible non-EC creations in other ECR topic areas

We currently have Special:AbuseFilter/1276 logging possible ARBPIA creations. In the interest of fairness and consistency we should do so (either with that filter or with a new filter ID) for the other extended-confirmed-only topic areas.

That would be:

• Russo-Ukrainian War (contains both "Russia" and "Ukraine"; probably each individually is too broad).
• Kurds and Kurdistan (probably Kurd case-sensitive would suffice)
• Armenia/Azerbaijan (this is a smaller area than Russia and Ukraine so probably easy country name individually would suffice)
• history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (probably too narrow to be findable, listing for completeness)

* Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:42, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Block bad moves to project space

Continuing the bad move filter train, another idea would be to block moves by new users from user, draft, or main namespace to the Wikipedia: namespace -- that's rarely where things are supposed to go, and seems to get frequently selected by mistake. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:26, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

It makes sense to make this another addition to 1354 (hist · log). Here's some sample code (note that the age/contribs requirement is very flexible, I'll leave the exact details to an EFM):

/* rest of 1354 */
| (
   equals_to_any(moved_from_namespace, 0, 2, 118) &
   moved_from_namespace == 4 &
   (user_editcount < 60 | user_age < 604800)
)

– PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 04:47, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

@Pppery  Done. @PharyngealImplosive7: great minds think alike, I drafted up the exact same code and then came here to post about it. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:54, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

@Pppery: @PharyngealImplosive7: @Ahecht: Looks great. After reviewing the move log to confirm it was enough of an issue to add to the filter, I added a similar check for each of the respective talk namespaces and made a few minor tweaks for performance. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 17:29, 22 May 2025 (UTC)