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
1	Prevent users from posting one or more URL links in the User talk namespace (discussion tabs).	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled	20:13, 10 June 2025 by Keith (talk \| contribs)	Public
2	Block spammy keywords	Disallow	Enabled, High rate of matches	11:15, 25 September 2025 by JamesTDG (talk \| contribs)	Private
3	Block all attempts to add links to user pages since this is spam	Warn, Disallow, Tag	Enabled, High rate of matches	22:12, 11 June 2025 by Keith (talk \| contribs)	Public
4	Stub notice can only be removed by moderators	Disallow	Enabled	19:11, 13 March 2026 by JakeL (talk \| contribs)	Public
5	Restrict Removal of Stub Notices to Sysops	Disallow, Block autopromote, Tag	Disabled	18:35, 9 December 2025 by AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk \| contribs)	Public
6	Nuclear shoap - no swearing	Disallow	Enabled	16:25, 16 August 2025 by Keith (talk \| contribs)	Private
7	edit throttle	Disallow	Disabled	16:15, 10 December 2025 by AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk \| contribs)	Public
8	block f word	Disallow	Enabled	15:40, 22 January 2025 by Kostas (talk \| contribs)	Private
9	You need to perform some more actions to be able to upload files. Please consider contributing in other ways for now.	Disallow, Tag	Disabled	15:46, 10 February 2025 by Kostas (talk \| contribs)	Private
10	New user blanking pages	Disallow	Enabled	18:39, 6 February 2025 by Kostas (talk \| contribs)	Private
11	Please don't post magnet/torrent links.	Disallow	Enabled	07:35, 23 November 2025 by AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk \| contribs)	Private
12	Block bots who create spam pages that have been created before	Block	Disabled	07:36, 23 November 2025 by AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk \| contribs)	Private
13	Spam article filter	Disallow, Block autopromote	Enabled, High rate of matches	09:13, 7 March 2026 by JamesTDG (talk \| contribs)	Private
14	Block Archive.today	Disallow	Disabled	17:34, 25 February 2026 by Keith (talk \| contribs)	Public