Abuse filter management

Welcome to the Abuse Filter management interface. The Abuse Filter is an automated software mechanism of applying automatic heuristics to all actions. This interface shows a list of defined filters, and allows them to be modified.

Of the last 181 actions, 0 (0%) have reached the condition limit of 2,000, and 5 (2.76%) have matched at least one of the filters currently enabled.

All filters

Filter ID	Public description	Consequences	Status	Last modified	Visibility
1	Pattern vandalism #1	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	09:10, 27 May 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
2	Pattern vandalism #2	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	09:11, 27 May 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
3	Pattern vandalism #3	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	09:12, 27 May 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
4	Pattern vandalism #4	Throttle, Disallow, Block autopromote	Disabled	23:46, 2 July 2018 by Cromium (talk \| contribs)	Private
5	Unusual change in title		Enabled	18:28, 11 June 2009 by Tempodivalse (talk \| contribs)	Private
6	Pattern vandalism #5	Throttle, Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	09:18, 27 May 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
7	Anon / new user blanking pages	Warn	Enabled	18:47, 2 June 2009 by Tempodivalse (talk \| contribs)	Private
8	personal attacks or insults by anon / unregistered user	Warn, Disallow	Enabled	21:17, 31 May 2009 by Tempodivalse (talk \| contribs)	Private
9	poop vandalism	Disallow	Disabled	00:52, 11 August 2011 by Pi zero (talk \| contribs)	Private
10	Page blanking	Warn	Enabled	04:52, 21 October 2010 by Bawolff (talk \| contribs)	Private
11	Replacing a page with obscenities	Warn, Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	12:40, 23 June 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
12	Vandalistic edit summaries	Throttle, Warn, Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	12:41, 23 June 2009 by Cirt (talk \| contribs)	Private
13	Shouting	Tag	Enabled	22:04, 25 April 2010 by Chaetodipus (talk \| contribs)	Private
14	Prevent the word "poo" being added to articles by non confirmed users	Disallow	Disabled	11:22, 18 May 2012 by Brian McNeil (talk \| contribs)	Private
15	Section blanking	Tag	Enabled	17:41, 2 August 2011 by BarkingFish (talk \| contribs)	Private
16	Adding email addresses to articles	Warn, Disallow	Enabled	01:18, 9 July 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
17	Addition of multiple obscenities		Disabled	23:26, 26 August 2011 by BarkingFish (talk \| contribs)	Private
18	Unregistered or New User blanking other people's user or talk pages	Warn, Disallow	Enabled	17:59, 2 August 2011 by BarkingFish (talk \| contribs)	Private
19	Your mom filter	Warn, Disallow	Enabled	18:33, 2 August 2011 by BarkingFish (talk \| contribs)	Private
20	Prevention of talk page company spam	Disallow	Enabled	15:53, 16 December 2024 by Leaderboard (talk \| contribs)	Private
21	Sockpuppeteer block #1		Enabled	11:53, 6 September 2011 by BarkingFish (talk \| contribs)	Private
22	Ntsamr	Block, Tag	Enabled	15:48, 12 June 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
23	Userspace spamming	Warn, Disallow	Enabled	11:58, 23 May 2013 by Tom Morris (talk \| contribs)	Private
24	new user youtube, &c.	Warn, Disallow, Tag	Enabled	09:26, 20 October 2014 by Billinghurst (talk \| contribs)	Private
25	support number vandalism #1	Disallow, Block, Tag	Enabled	13:22, 8 July 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
26	'musik' file upload spam	Disallow, Tag	Enabled	01:17, 9 July 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
27	General spam	Warn, Disallow, Block autopromote, Block, Tag	Enabled	01:18, 9 July 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
28	Spam pattern	Block	Enabled	03:34, 17 February 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
29	URL spam pattern	Block	Enabled	05:11, 25 February 2020 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
30	Bee filter	Block	Enabled	20:17, 27 April 2020 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
31	Recent LTA	Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	15:27, 22 February 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
32	Recent LTA #2	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	16:30, 10 March 2023 by SVTCobra (talk \| contribs)	Private
34	Spam	Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	11:42, 8 February 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Private
35	potential problem of Unicode	Disallow	Enabled	15:57, 19 February 2021 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Public
36	Recent not-news article	Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	02:22, 29 October 2023 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Public
37	cs-spam-simple	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	12:03, 16 June 2023 by SVTCobra (talk \| contribs)	Private
38	cs-spam	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	23:08, 31 December 2021 by Billinghurst (talk \| contribs)	Private
39	Recurrent self-promotion	Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	16:47, 29 August 2021 by Cromium (talk \| contribs)	Private
40	LTA #3	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	10:21, 25 February 2023 by Chaetodipus (talk \| contribs)	Private
41	Bot attack filter	Disallow	Enabled	22:33, 3 March 2023 by Operator873 (talk \| contribs)	Private
42	LTA #4 (GRP)	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	01:19, 2 May 2023 by SVTCobra (talk \| contribs)	Private
43	Japanese spam	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	05:18, 3 November 2023 by Acagastya (talk \| contribs)	Public
44	Recurrent self-promotion #2	Block autopromote, Block	Enabled	23:26, 28 November 2023 by Tyrol5 (talk \| contribs)	Private
45	Prevent new users from editing other's user pages	Disallow	Enabled	21:37, 19 January 2024 by SVTCobra (talk \| contribs)	Public