MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist-custom-filename

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In general, I think it's suggested to include the software version number in the file name. Thus, I'd replace "File:KDE Kicker config screenshot.png". Possible replacement: File:KHexEdit-0.8.6.png. -- User:Docu at 18:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request, quotemarks

{{Edit request}} I'll make two edit requests here as the first is an uncontroversial one.

Request: remove all the quotation marks from the filenames on this page. This is being misread by some users as saying that a good filename starts and ends with a quotation mark, which is not the case. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:41, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! —RP88 (talk) 04:45, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Edit request, replace real examples with nonsense words

{{Edit request}}

Second edit request is more ambitious.

Currently if you search Commons for "London skyline", "KHexEdit", "Polyhedron no vertex" or "Maoris and settlers" you also get some junk images from non-English speakers or novice users who reached this blacklist page (by uploading something with a bad or generic name) and used one of its "good file names" examples directly, adding or changing a few characters to get it through. There are presumably many more being created and deleted for copyvio/scope reasons all the time. I know I've been puzzled by "City of London skyline from London City Hall" on photos of other places in the past, sometimes also appearing in file descriptions, and have only today realised why it's happening.

I suggest replacing these example filenames with some nonsense words, so as not to pollute the search terms. I've made some other alterations: "City of London skyline" is a bad example anyway, because the "City of London" refers to the banking district: an equivalent title of "City of Paris skyline" isn't an ideal filename, the first two words are redundant. And I think the software example of "KHexEdit-0.8.6.png" may be better avoided entirely: "KHexEdit" appears in a lot of unrelated photos on Commons, I assume because it's easy to misinterpret it as some kind of special wiki keyword that will get any image approved, and any fictional software name is likely to have the same problem.

Change the example good filenames to (without links, since these files don't exist):

• Nodnol skyline from Nodnol City Hall - Aug 2022.jpg
• 1875 Meeting of Settlers at Falconer Bay, New Nodland.jpg
• Pseudohedron with no vertex visible from center.png

Change the final example bad filename to:

• PSEUDOHEDRON WITH NO VERTEX VISIBLE FROM CENTER.png

This also opens up the option to actually blacklist some of those terms, since a user would never genuinely be uploading a photo of Nodnol City Hall. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:41, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done – sounds sensible to me and nobody objected in the past three months. Search links for convenience: nodnol, nodland, pseudohedron --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 14:32, 5 November 2022 (UTC)