Forum:Heavy vandal attack - possible solution

Hi everybody,

Our wiki, Nonciclopedia, was attacked this morning by a vandal known in some wikis (wikipedia too), because he moves user pages with a bot. Because of his methods, it could be very useful to be able to ban and block pages with a regular expression. Is it possible?

I'll explain better the problem: this vandal uses usernames of the form "something planante something" or names containing the word "leonida", and moves pages form "User:username" to "User:username planante username", with all subpages and discussions. It's a pain to revert all his edits, this morning I had to delete about 200 redirects. With a regular expression I can just block all usernames containing "planante" and "Leonida", and block all pages containing the word "planante". MFH 13:27, 22 July 2009 (UTC)