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Proposal to apply some of my suggestions to some abuse filters

There are two cases of some identical abuse filters, some of which I would like to propose my suggestions for them:

• The spambot filters are identical, but filter 104 should also disallow spambot accounts to allow anti-vandalism patrollers to report them more easily, and 164 should either be disabled or even deleted (what's the added benefit of using a private filter to only disallow registered spambots?):
• Special:AbuseFilter/104
• Special:AbuseFilter/164

• User/user talk page blanking filters. They do the same thing, but 362 would have also prevented Special:AbuseLog/3045702. Do we also need filter 35 to warn then block autopromote? Disallowing would have the same effect, as users should not blank user and user talk pages:
• Special:AbuseFilter/35
• Special:AbuseFilter/362

Also, for 104 we should opt-out Meta itself using wiki_name != "metawiki" because private filter 121 blocks the spambots locally. Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 00:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)