Topic on Project:Village Pump

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Task T355445

Hello! It seems to me that it is a little wrong that 'user' users can edit manual tags, since such vandalism is easy to overlook and quite difficult to rollback: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Special%3ALog%2Fpagetranslation&type=tag

I support this. There's another right called "applychangetags" that won't affect the ability to tag their own edits when using gadgets to perform actions.

Agreed. We've had a years-long history of vandalism using this feature not being noticed or reverted.

+1; I blocked the most recent user vandalizing via tags but didn't go further with cleanup when I saw how many tags were added, we definitely shouldn't allow the cleanup problem to be compounded further.

Also as a general note, it's not just pagetranslation stuff that gets vandalized with tags: Special:Log/tag.

Support. And I feel this should probably be removed from 'user' user group by default. Is there a reason to enable it for users when we already have 'applychangetags'?

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Task T355639

@94rain, I agree with you, the right should be removed from regular users by default.

I've been wondering the whole time why we can do that 🤣