MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

In light of the telephone number spam...

I propose we add the following to the blacklist until the end of the week:

• Microsoft
• Norton
• Technical Support

Is this okay? Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 22:12, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Motion passed, probably indefinitely - I can't see having articles with these titles in them. Slate Talk Contribs 22:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

We could put a phone number regex:

 (?:\d{1}\s)?\(?(\d{3})\)?-?\s?(\d{3})-?\s?(\d{4}) 

Slate Talk Contribs 22:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

The problem with that is that the spammer(s?) write them out with varying amounts of slashes and spaces. It would be a pain to code. Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 22:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

I've added Microsoft and Norton for now. More varying symbols-tolerant regex:

 ^\s*(?:\+?(\d{1,3}))?([-. (/]*(\d{3})[-. )/]*)?((\d{3})[-. /]*(\d{2,4})(?:[-.x /]*(\d+))?)\s* 

You can test it here. Slate Talk Contribs 22:25, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

That'll work. --Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 22:28, 25 January 2016 (UTC)