Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Special:AbuseFilter/21/reply (10)

For the little that my opinion is probably worth, I would find it confronting and unwelcoming if I was an experienced wikimedian and was unable to create a user page at a new wiki, especially as it is one of the first things that I do at a wiki. Noting: It would be expected practice that stewards, global sysops, and global rollbackers have user pages on wikis on which they operate I perfectly understand the issue of spam and abuse, and have written filters to assist in the wholesale management, I just do not believe that this particular filter is the means to progress. If you tied it with something like a test that had  and it gave a preliminary warning of what is expected, only then would I see that a DISALLOW was acceptable. I would also think that if someone was using a template like  or   with a xwiki link that they would not get caught either.

With regard to abuse filter help, I can tell you that your checkusers have been offered filters through the checkuser community. Further any of your administrators who hang around in stewards' IRC channel should have heard the offer as it has been made, and I know that I have personally added some of my filters around the wikis.