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.

All filters

Filter ID	Public description	Consequences	Status	Last modified	Visibility	Hit count
1	Prevent CSS extension from unauthorised use	Disallow	Enabled	20:27, 23 January 2014 by UltrasonicNXT (talk \| contribs)	Public	10 hits
2	Section blanking	Warn, Tag	Enabled	07:44, 6 May 2017 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Public	44 hits
3	Vandalism in all caps	Tag	Enabled	20:30, 16 December 2013 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	26 hits
4	Shouting	Tag	Enabled	06:08, 1 December 2013 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	11 hits
5	Large unwikified new article	Warn, Tag	Enabled, throttled	17:33, 30 November 2014 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	53,401 hits
6	nowiki tags inserted into an article	Tag	Enabled	02:51, 30 November 2013 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	88 hits
7	Creating a very short new article	Disallow, Tag	Enabled	00:14, 16 June 2016 by LegoFan4000 (talk \| contribs)	Public	567 hits
8	Possible self-promotion in the user-space	Warn, Tag	Enabled, throttled	05:55, 12 December 2013 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Private
9	Possible spam page	Disallow, Tag	Enabled, throttled	10:28, 17 February 2016 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private
10	No signature in forum or talk pages	Tag	Disabled	22:26, 12 July 2016 by LegoFan4000 (talk \| contribs)	Public	2,041 hits
11	Libel or other vandalism	Disallow, Tag	Enabled, throttled	19:25, 14 June 2016 by LegoFan4000 (talk \| contribs)	Public	3,125 hits
12	Claims of homosexuality, bisexuality, or transexuality	Disallow, Tag	Enabled	19:25, 14 June 2016 by LegoFan4000 (talk \| contribs)	Public	180 hits
13	Globally blocked accounts	Disallow	Enabled	08:04, 6 May 2017 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private
14	Repeating characters	Tag	Enabled	00:03, 10 January 2014 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	26 hits
18	possible spam page (title)	Warn, Tag	Enabled, throttled	07:30, 10 February 2016 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private
19	spam on talk pages	Warn	Enabled	12:04, 20 March 2015 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Public	3 hits
20	New article containing either only uppercase letters or only lowercase letters and spacing	Disallow, Tag	Enabled, throttled	00:13, 16 June 2016 by LegoFan4000 (talk \| contribs)	Public	228 hits
21	possible spam page (editsummary)	Warn, Tag	Enabled	03:00, 6 September 2015 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private
22	Specific user page spam	Warn, Tag	Enabled	17:42, 10 February 2016 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	0 hits
23	Prevent users from adding external links on their first edits	Disallow	Enabled, throttled	05:12, 24 March 2016 by ToaMeiko (talk \| contribs)	Public	40,882 hits
24	Stop particular vandalism	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block, Remove from groups, Tag	Enabled	21:53, 18 January 2019 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private
25	Prevent particular vandal accounts	Disallow, Block autopromote, Block, Remove from groups	Enabled	23:23, 12 June 2017 by NovaHawk (talk \| contribs)	Private