Help:Phalanx

What is Phalanx?
Phalanx is an integrated spam defense mechanism, adapted from various features such as Regex Block, Spam Regex, and the spam and title blacklists along with a couple other new options using regular expressions. This tool allows all of these actions to be performed on a single page, allowing for greater flexibility and convenience when combating spam or vandalism.

Usage
The following options are available using this tool:


 * Article content
 * This filter prevents an edit from being saved, if its content matches any of the blacklisted phrases.


 * Article summary
 * This filter prevents an edit from being saved, if the summary given matches any of the blacklisted phrases.


 * Article title
 * This filter prevents a page from being created, if its title matches any of the blacklisted phrases. It does not prevent a pre-existing page from being edited.


 * User
 * This filter blocks a user (exactly the same as a local MediaWiki block), if the user's name matches one of the blacklisted phrases or IPs.


 * Wiki creation
 * This filter prevents a wiki from being created, if its name contains any blacklisted phrase.


 * Question title
 * This filter blocks a question (page) from being created, if its title matches any of the blacklisted phrases. (Only on Answers-type wikis)


 * Recent questions
 * This filter prevents questions (pages) from being displayed in a number of outputs (widgets, lists, tag-generated listings). It does not prevent those questions from being created. (Only on Answers-type wikis).

How do I report false positives?
If you have triggered a filter than prevents you from saving or creating something you believe is correct and not spam, you can report it here or contact staff.