User talk:John of Reading

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@Dustfreeworld: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 17:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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Pakistan utility-bill sites

Feel free to ping me...I'm defaulting to prompt multi-week blocks for any IPs and insta-indef for any accounts spamming them (examples: User:John of Reading/Spam links). DMacks (talk) 08:56, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

@DMacks: Yes, this has been going on for too long. I wonder if we could add esco\w{0,5}bil{0,5}\.pk\b to the spam blacklist? That would block all domains containing "esco" then "bil" and ending with ".pk". I'd have to run a big scan first to see if there are false positives. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:04, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

I'd support that. Could feed it to XLinkBot first, to help track what's being caught. DMacks (talk) 09:16, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't see any false matches in the most recent database dump. I scanned for \bhttps?://[^ ]*esco.{0,5}bil.{0.5}\.pk\b -- John of Reading (talk) 09:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Clever way to check! DMacks (talk) 10:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Several of the links have "epco" not "esco", so I did another scan for those. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:42, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

@DMacks: Special:Diff/1274292426. Yet another domain. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Batch

Are you ready for another batch? Polygnotus (talk) 11:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

@Polygnotus: Not yet. Thanks to your previous work, I have so many new regular expressions to try out that it will be four to six months before I'm ready for another batch. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:50, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

You actually inspired me so I added the option to export the lists to AWB settings.xml format. example Polygnotus (talk) 11:59, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

That looks very efficient! -- John of Reading (talk) 12:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

If you are curious. Remember to back up your AWB settings.xml first! Polygnotus (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for helping me. That Twinkle thing has been driving me nuts!! Rodney Baggins .talk. 16:56, 14 February 2025 (UTC)