Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-24014422-20170921203625

Hi Ultra. I would like to take a minute of your time to inform you about how the Blacklist thing works and how it is important to use and react to users who are affected by it. You see, this vandal today has repeatedly created the Sonic Heroes 2 article, and I ended up deleting this page three times and blocking him. But, at that point, it came up to my mind that the software we are using for writing articles offers a way to block page/files from being created if they include a certain condition (like a name, a language, etc). So, much like how I prevented certain file names from being created before (the ones that start with a number, have Tumblr as their names, etc), I've also found a way to block pages with certain titles from being created (thanks to the documentation of this Blacklist and the help I got from a user from Dev wiki).

So, to make a long speech short, I would like you, too, to know how to use this system message (the blacklist) as well as other administrators, and not just me. Since this can block vandals from creating certain page/file from their titles, especially if they are excessive without the need to lock several pages/files from creation manually and forget about them later.

As you can see here, the file titles that we want to prohibit are contained inside of the "^File:" brackets. And under the "Prevent certain page names", there are the pages that we want to prohibit from creation using their titles as well. So, in order to block a file title, just add a pipe after the last item inside the brackets, and then put the file title you want to prohibit after the pipe (without leaving any space between the pipes). To prohibit an article, under the "Prevent certain page names" just place a pipe after the last item (without leaving any space between the pipes) and add your title after it.

This blacklist works on all users with special rights or not, except the higher ones (Administrators, Staff, VStaff, etc). So, you are not going to be affected by it and you can create/upload them freely. If there comes a time one of these titles become official and can be created by any user, just delete the needed title from the blacklist. 