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I'm afraid I have to agree with @Addshore here. Sure, it might be that many of the aliases that currently contain pipe characters are mistakes. It might even be the vast majority. But even if this is the case, … - There are certainly items that actually have a title or alternative titles that require the use of one or more pipe characters. Why should we ban them from the Wikidata knowledge base? Just because of a bug? Why not fix it instead? I drafted a few alternatives above. - Disallowing a random low-ASCII (!) character just feels wrong. Again, why? Why not, let's say, disallow comma, semicolon, and more non-alphanumeric characters as well? They all might be from a broken import. - Wikibase disallows tabs and vertical whitespace (newlines and such) for good reasons. But we never blocked the use of a visible character, as far as I'm aware of. > I mean | is more of a computer character than any specific language character […] I find this a very dangerous argument. I'm not aware of a policy that disallows to add and describe "computer stuff" in the Wikidata knowledge base. Even if https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1132051 would be the only item that requires the use of an actual pipe character in labels and aliases, a single item like this is reason enough for me to heavily veto the idea of blocking //any// visible character – except it is for security reasons. @Lydia_Pintscher, I can't believe you found this a good idea. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219499 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Greta_Doci_WMDE, thiemowmde Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, alaa_wmde, Lea_Lacroix_WMDE, thiemowmde, Greta_Doci_WMDE, Tarrow, Addshore, Aklapper, joker88john, CucyNoiD, Nandana, NebulousIris, Gaboe420, Versusxo, Majesticalreaper22, Giuliamocci, Adrian1985, Cpaulf30, Lahi, Gq86, Baloch007, Darkminds3113, Bsandipan, Lordiis, GoranSMilovanovic, Adik2382, Th3d3v1ls, Ramalepe, Liugev6, QZanden, LawExplorer, Lewizho99, Maathavan, _jensen, rosalieper, Jonas, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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