Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2025/Requests for TitleBlacklist/.*

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: Done (also, move Wikipedia to Nupedia). (non-admin closure) AlphaBeta135 talk 22:36, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reason: Users have been creating nonsensical pages across all namespaces since 2001 using this string: .*. On a typical day, the rate of page creation using this string is approximately five pages per minute.^{[April Fools!]} AlphaBeta135 talk 00:50, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support adding. This would stop literally all LTAs in their tracks. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 03:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why not move every matching page to “(page name) on wheels”? That way, we can solve vandalism by doing the vandals’ job for them. —πυθονκοδερ (ταλκ | κοντριβς) 05:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That would also match the regular expression ".*". Alfa-ketosav (talk) 12:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very Very Very Strong Support And then delete every page on Wikipedia and then there would be absolutely no vandalism at all! loserhead (talk) 14:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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