Viewing abuse filter 20: Prevent use of DISPLAYTITLE to change displayed page titles

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20

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(publicly viewable)

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Of the last 16 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.03 ms, and it consumes 2 conditions of the condition limit.

Conditions:

action == "edit" & contains_any(lcase(new_wikitext), "{{displaytitle") & lcase(page_title) != "main page"

action == "edit"
& contains_any(lcase(new_wikitext), "{{displaytitle")
& lcase(page_title) != "main page"

Notes:

We need to use DISPLAYTITLE on the main page but don't want it used elsewhere.

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Filter last modified:

16:20, 15 September 2026 by Shanecrowley (talk | contribs)

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DISPLAYTITLE

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