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"Newcomers" and "New users" in RC filters are too similar and easily confused
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:
One of the options is "Newcomers", under "User registration and experience", and "New users" is under "Type of change".

What should have happened instead?:
Without having to go through the list of filters, it is evident that "New users" is a type of log action. I suggest renaming it to "Account creations".

Other information:
It's also confusing that the description for "Logged actions" includes "account creations". Looks like this should have been removed with T321155.

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Perhaps Special:Log/newusers should also be renamed?

I don't think so, if you already know newusers is a type of log action there's little room for confusion. The problem is solely with the filter labels.

Change 962218 had a related patch set uploaded (by EpicPupper; author: EpicPupper):

[mediawiki/core@master] recentchanges: Clarify filter wording for account creations

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/962218

Change 962218 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] recentchanges: Clarify filter wording for account creations

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/962218