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NewPagesFeed should only display 'Blocked' note for non-partial blocks
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User story: As a patroller, I want to know if a user is blocked when reviewing newly created pages, so that I can understand whether using the G5 speedy deletion criterion might be appropriate.

In the NewPagesFeed, if the user who created a page is blocked, a Blocked notice is shown next to their username:

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This message does not distinguish between full and partial blocks. Many users have partial blocks which are not relevant to judging their newly created page. The Blocked note is primarily useful for identifying pages which might qualify for G5 speedy deletion.

Since knowing that a user is partially blocked isn't particularly helpful to patrollers, we could only show the Blocked note for non-partial blocks.

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The "blocked" notice is probably most used as a hint to check for CSD G5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users

Partially blocked users will never need their articles G5'd, so one idea is: instead of adding a "partially blocked" message, we could simply modify the code so that "blocked" always means a fully blocked user.

Partial blocks tend to correlate to bad behavior in a topic area. Maybe that's useful to show to NPPs, maybe it's not. I'm leaning no, but we could ask WT:NPPR if needed.

The "blocked" notice is probably most used as a hint to check for CSD G5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users

Partially blocked users will never need their articles G5'd, so one idea is: instead of adding a "partially blocked" message, we could simply modify the code so that "blocked" always means a fully blocked user.

Partial blocks tend to correlate to bad behavior in a topic area. Maybe that's useful to show to NPPs, maybe it's not. I'm leaning no, but we could as WT:NPPR if needed.

This is great context, thanks! I agree that this approach seems more sensible given the use case for this message. I'll update the task description.

Samwalton9-WMF renamed this task from NewPagesFeed should distinguish between full and partial user blocks to NewPagesFeed should only display 'Blocked' note for non-partial blocks.Feb 17 2023, 4:10 PM
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It would also be easy to check if the user is blocked from editing that article specifically, if that's helpful.

MPGuy2824 changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Feb 24 2023, 12:33 PM
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Change 891935 had a related patch set uploaded (by MPGuy2824; author: MPGuy2824):

[mediawiki/extensions/PageTriage@master] Ignore partial blocks while showing blocked status for page authors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/891935

Change 891935 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PageTriage@master] Ignore partial blocks while showing blocked status for page authors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/891935

MPGuy2824 moved this task from Waiting for enwiki deploy to Done on the PageTriage board.