MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist

Rule suggestion based on a couple recent files
Can a rule along the lines of File:[0-9_]+\a?\.\w+ Be added? It will block any combination of only numbers and underscores, with an optional letter at the end, such as File:10411771_1515516195382904_3648632274985939072_n.jpg We could simply block by number of numbers, but are there really any useful titles containing only numbers and underscores? It could also easily replace the current rule of.

– KnightMiner  (t·c) 17:06, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Added it as a replacement for the rule you pointed out, with some additions/changes; smack me if my changes make it block stuff it shouldn't (I don't think it will, though, unless you can point to a valid example of a descriptive filename including only numbers and commonly-used number separators with an optional letter at the end). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 00:27, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * That period after the \d does not look right, since a period matches any character... Other than that, it makes the next rule redundant with the changes you added. – KnightMiner  (t·c) 03:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Periods aren't metacharacters in character classes, and so don't need to be escaped.
 * I considered removing the next rule; I can't decide if it should be removed for being superfluous now or left in because it's one of the set of Minecraft screenshot name rules. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 04:02, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * That would make sense, since any character in a group expression would be useless.
 * The only reason I can think of to keep it is in case anyone ever removes the rule discussed earlier. – KnightMiner  (t·c) 04:11, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I removed it, so whatever, or whatever. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 04:17, 12 December 2014 (UTC)