Viewing abuse filter 21: Personal non-encyclopedic user profile pages are only allowed in the User namespace.

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Filter ID:

21

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(publicly viewable)

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Of the last 30 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.1 ms, and it consumes 3.6 conditions of the condition limit.

Conditions:

( /* CASE 1: Directly creating a page in Mainspace (NS 0) */ ( action == "edit" & page_namespace == 0 & page_id == 0 & ( lcase(page_title) == lcase(str_replace(user_name, " ", "_")) | page_title irlike "^User(_talk)?:.+" | lcase(page_title) rlike "^(about_me|my_page|my_profile|welcome_to_my_page)$" ) ) | /* CASE 2: Moving a page INTO Mainspace (NS 0) */ ( action == "move" & moved_to_namespace == 0 & ( lcase(moved_to_title) == lcase(str_replace(user_name, " ", "_")) | moved_to_title irlike "^User(_talk)?:.+" | lcase(moved_to_title) rlike "^(about_me|my_page|my_profile|welcome_to_my_page)$" ) ) )

(
    /* CASE 1: Directly creating a page in Mainspace (NS 0) */
    (
        action == "edit"
        & page_namespace == 0
        & page_id == 0
        & (
            lcase(page_title) == lcase(str_replace(user_name, " ", "_"))
            | page_title irlike "^User(_talk)?:.+"
            | lcase(page_title) rlike "^(about_me|my_page|my_profile|welcome_to_my_page)$"
        )
    )
    |
    /* CASE 2: Moving a page INTO Mainspace (NS 0) */
    (
        action == "move"
        & moved_to_namespace == 0
        & (
            lcase(moved_to_title) == lcase(str_replace(user_name, " ", "_"))
            | moved_to_title irlike "^User(_talk)?:.+"
            | lcase(moved_to_title) rlike "^(about_me|my_page|my_profile|welcome_to_my_page)$"
        )
    )
)

Notes:

The main namespace is reserved for encyclopedic articles and is privileged in terms of searchability. Users who wish to create personal pages are welcome to but should create them in the User namespace using a page name that matches their own.

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13:55, 24 September 2026 by Kkuo (talk | contribs)

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possible-personal-page

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