Last modified: 2013-05-18 16:45:16 UTC
Because of problems like this https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Title_blacklist&oldid=3192814#Fakes_of_Wikimedia_Deutschland_.28WMDE.29_staff it would be good, if user names listed on the title blacklist could still be auto created if there is a valid global account. In my opinion, that shouldn't apply to all rules, but only to some specifically marked ones (maybe with allowautocreate or smth. like that).
I don't think the blacklist should be managed locally at all. This is just a recipe for ongoing SUL fragmentation. See bug 36939.
*** Bug 38762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > I don't think the blacklist should be managed locally at all. This is just a > recipe for ongoing SUL fragmentation. See bug 36939. I'm not sure bug 36939 is related to this bug. This bug is about a bad user creating a "Jdoe (WMF)" account and using it to impersonate a Wikimedia Foundation staffer. As a response to this scenario, admins at Meta-Wiki have attempted to blacklist accounts ending in " (WMF)" and " (WMDE)", thinking that administrators/staffers will be able to override the title blacklist when creating new WMF or WMDE accounts. However, even if an administrator can create the account, the new and unprivileged WMF or WMDE account is going to always hit issues on other wikis where the global title blacklist applies, unless these accounts are explicitly given a global user group allowing them to override the global title blacklist. As I understand it, that is what this bug is discussing. Yes, the local title blacklists probably need to be done away with for accounts (bug 36939), but that seems like a largely separate issue from what's being discussed here.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I don't think the blacklist should be managed locally at all. This is just a > > recipe for ongoing SUL fragmentation. See bug 36939. > > I'm not sure bug 36939 is related to this bug. It's not alternative to it, but I'd say it depends on it, because whatever solution you come up with can only be global.
