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!"confirmed" in user_groups & ( art := "(?x) # Regular expressions ([\x{2500}-\x{259f}])\1\1\1 |([\x{2800}-\x{28ff}])\2\2\2 |[B38][-=]{2,}D |[C<][-=]{4,}8 |[\x{2500}-\x{259f}]{8} |[\x{2800}-\x{28ff}]{8} |$\s*\.\s*Y\s*\.\s*$ # Fixed strings |\Q#########@########\E |\Q( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)\E |\Q/'/.../..../\E |\Q4$$$$$$\E |\Q>>>>\E |\QB == D\E |\Q\__/\___/\E |\Q”=,_.......“-,\E "; added_lines rlike art & !(removed_lines rlike art) ) & page_namespace != 2 & page_title != "Sandbox" & !((old_wikitext + new_wikitext) rlike "outemap|BS-map")

!"confirmed" in user_groups &
(
    art := "(?x)
        # Regular expressions
        ([\x{2500}-\x{259f}])\1\1\1
        |([\x{2800}-\x{28ff}])\2\2\2
        |[B38][-=]{2,}D
        |[C<][-=]{4,}8
        |[\x{2500}-\x{259f}]{8}
        |[\x{2800}-\x{28ff}]{8}
        |\(\s*\.\s*Y\s*\.\s*\)
        # Fixed strings
        |\Q#########@########\E
        |\Q( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)\E
        |\Q/'/.../..../\E
        |\Q4$$$$$$\E
        |\Q>>>>\E
        |\QB == D\E
        |\Q\__/\___/\E
        |\Q”=,_.......“-,\E
    ";
    added_lines rlike art &
    !(removed_lines rlike art)
) &
page_namespace != 2 &
page_title != "Sandbox" &
!((old_wikitext + new_wikitext) rlike "outemap|BS-map")

Notes:

goatsex ASCII art

This would be handier if it detected general ascii art, rather than this particular one.

-- Disabling for now for performence reasons.

Adding an edit count and picking just a small amount of the goatsex ASCII (but one that's unlikely to have any legitimate use).  The edit count limit should improve performance.  Gonna enable this (without actions) to see.  --NW

Caught the last bunch of Fang vandalism, run time only 6.4ms, going to enable disallowance.  --NW

Updating.  --NW
More updating. --NW

"##::"?  Though very rare, that can still operate as well formed wikitext.  Surely there is something better than that to target.  -DF
-I presume that was for the giant goatse ascii art, replaced with ";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" - slightly easier to get around, but less false positive chance. - Mr.Z-man

*New one.  --NW
*Another, see User:Batlh.  --NW
*And 2 more, see User:Sholvahh.  ASCII art is the meme of the night, apparently. --NW
*Adding <big><big><big>, not exactly ASCII art, but still graphics-related vandalism.  --NW

*<big><big><big> is contained in [[User:Quinsareth]]'s signature and is causing some false positives. Removing for now until we can get him to change it. - Hersfold

**Joker vandalism.  Yes, I tested it.  --NW
*** Joker tweak, broadening a bit.  --NW
****And broadening a little further.  Tested.  --NW
* More Joker, let's try this.  Tested.  --NW
** More Joker.  Tested.  --NW
***Let's try this.  Tested. --NW
****And more Joker.  Tested. --NW
*Add 1, tested.  --NW  6/19
** 1 more, tested.  --NW 7/5
***More of same, tested. --NW 7/5

*Add 1, tested.  --NW 8/5
** 1 more, tested.  --NW 8/9
***New spam, tested.  --NW 8/20

added ' ,,,:#,' as used in Avril Lavigne vandalism --zzuuzz
+1, tested.  --NW 9/14
+1, tested.  -- NW 10/5
+1, tested.  --NW 10/5
*Pruning.  --NW 10/20
+1, tested.  --NW 10/30
+1, tested.  --NW 11/24
+2 moved from rule 77, consolidating
+1 --NW 12/3

Excluded user name space. Ruslik
+1 --NW
+1 --NW 3/23
Added 4chan triforcing -- Shirik 25 Mar 2010
Changed triforce to ∆ ∆ because there are a lot of legitimate uses of ∆ -- Soap

Adding exception for sandbox. - Someguy1221

Remove <big><big><big>, possibility of false positives. - KoH

+pedobear --zzuuzz

Check edit summary for cocks. This seems to be getting more and more common. --Reaper

Condition limit 7%, there are more important filters later on. Disabling temporarily. - KoH

Being used by serial vandal, restoring.  --NW 5/27

Adding "Meeposheep" & swastikas. --Reaper
Added "butt dance". --Reaper
More cocks. --Reaper
Fixing FP. --Reaper
Consolidation, added regex cock check. --Reaper
OOPS! --Reaper
Merging from overlapping filter 77. --Reaper
"[[bewbz]]". --Reaper
Matched <!--sdfsd8--> comments! --Reaper
Removed several redundant entries and text format. --Reaper
+Pentagram and swastika. --Reaper
+Facepalm. --Reaper
+Dick. --Reaper
+Finger. --Reaper

Updating so only the longer cocks are detected. --Reaper 2012-04-16

Removing some old phrases. -- Reaper 2012-08-20

Rm 1 per request.  --NW 3/13/14

Removing a couple that seemed to be causing a lot of false positives. --Someguy1221
*Trying those again, in a more limited way.  --NW
**And limiting even more.  --NW

+1, spambots --NW

A recent edit to this filter seems to be causing many false positives - reverting it

"========" will just cause a bunch of false positives. Removed. Please think in the future... - Shirik 17 Sep

-5, FP report --NW

Removed ones with nowiki due to FPs. --Jackmcbarn

Removed "~ ~" which is a terrible indicator for a very frequently used combination of wikitext. - Shirik

Add some light preemption for non-content edits.  -DF

Removed %41 and %53 - these have nothing to do with ASCII art and were causing FPs.

Removed those covered by "B=" and "=D", also treated any three ":" or ";" as ASCII art RF
"░░░░░" also makes another line redundant. RF

rm ":::" as it has expected usage on talk pages ~MA

Straight/non-optimized conversion+escaping from contains_any(...) to rlike (condition count complaints in archive7) --slakr/17 Aug 2015

:Converting this is a good idea, but the current effort generated false positives.  See:WT:EF.  -DF

rm ";;;" as valid wiki syntax. --Samwalton9, 28 Jan '16

Adding exception for Routemap, as it often contains some of these strings as part of its usual syntax. Toggling off disallow while observing. ~ Rob

Adding an exception for BS-map as well for similar reasons. ~ Rob
Adding above exceptions to new_wikitext. RF 2017-10-16

Exclude user namespace. If people want this silliness in their userspace, so what? If they try to vandalize another user's page, 803 will stop them. --Suffusion of Yellow 21:39 2 Nov 2019

Format, simplify, optimize. --Suffusion of Yellow 21:47 2 Nov 2019

Make public per [[Special:PermaLink/924422334#Unprivate edit filter 31 (ASCII art)]] --Suffusion of Yellow 19:33 4 Nov 2019

Prune out everything with no mainspace hits out of last 1000 (> 1 year). --Suffusion of Yellow 03:33 23 Oct 2022

Check removed lines to reduce FPs. Also exclude Wikipedia:Sandbox. Might need to narrow to Main and Main talk like most anti-vandal filters, but hopefully this reduce FPs for now. --Galobtter 05:40 24 Mar 2023

Refactor as regex so we can check removed_lines without duplicating the list. Using (?x) and \Q...\E to avoid a mess of escapes. --Suffusion of Yellow 20:18 23 Nov 2023

Generalize the box drawing, block elements, and braille matching. --Daniel Quinlan 6 May 2025

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