"This title contains some undesirable characters. Please remove them." is not helpful
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	zeljkofilipin
	Dec 12 2012, 2:19 PM

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screen shot with the error message

upload an image
at "Describe" step enter "test: test" (without quotes) as image title
"This title contains some undesirable characters. Please remove them." error message appears
the error message should be more specific about undesirable characters
for example, the list of undesirable characters could be added to the error message

this bug is similar to Bug 38303 - confusing error message when uploading a file with filename is not allowed.

Version: master
Severity: normal
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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42554

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Reference: bz43009

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Invalid	None	T40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
Resolved	None	T45009 "This title contains some undesirable characters. Please remove them." is not helpful
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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 1:07 AM

• bzimport added a project: UploadWizard.

• bzimport set Reference to bz43009.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

zeljkofilipin created this task.Dec 12 2012, 2:19 PM

The number of undesirable characters can be too long to display with the error message, there has to be a better way to describe what is not allowed. Maybe use tipsy?

The error message could then contain only undesirably characters from the title, not the entire list.

I am willing to fix this but not sure if there is an easy way to do it, waiting for some qualified person to comment. Since most of the checking is based on regexes there has to be a message associated with each of the regex used in jquery.validate.wmCommonsBlacklist

Lowering priority as Title Blacklist is supposed to show "higher-quality error messages" and hence wmCommonsBlacklist is likely to be deprecated.

Setting lowest as Title Blacklist is used on Commons so this error message won't appear now.

I would wait for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50953/ to get merged and then find a way to use the message provided by TitleBlacklist to show. Hopefully Validate plugin has something for that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38303 ***

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Dec 4 2014, 10:55 AM

• Gilles moved this task from Untriaged to Done on the Multimedia board.Dec 4 2014, 10:58 AM

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