Last modified: 2013-11-05 19:56:21 UTC
It would be quite useful if we had a blacklist (regex-supporting) for preventing inclusion of sitelinks matching a line in the blacklist, for example, an entry like: (en|simple)wiki:User( talk)?:*/[Ss]andbox would block addition of sitelinks on the English or Simple English Wikipedias in userspace that are a sandbox subpage. A special right would be needed for bypassing these sitelinks, though bots should probably not have this right (at least not on Wikidata, if implemented, could be allowed by default), considering that bots often create such items that should be deleted per policies. It would be far too difficult for each bot operator to create a list of such pages, plus new users might not be aware of those policies etc.
Can't this be done by AbuseFilter already?
Shouldn't the extension still be self-sustainable?
Not all wikis with this extension may use AbuseFilter.
Well, spam blacklist is a separate extension too.
And so is TitleBlacklist.
Meaning, I don't think it's necessary and I'd suggest a WONTFIX for this.
If this can be done with abusefilter then yes I don't see how this is a good use of everyone's resources to be honest.