Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Recent new users/reply (5)

My script is coming along. So I pulled the user list through the API, limited it to accounts created more than a week ago with  less than 4, and ran what was left through the user contributions API. Here's what I found:


 * The bot registrations started in June 2014, soon after I joined. Sorry :-( But seriously, I wonder if the spambots learned about ATT the same way I did: from this Slashdot story (which may have come from this submission by TuringTest).
 * None of the users since June 2014 with all their edits deleted have a space in their name. And none have only an initial cap followed by lowercase. They're all either AaaaAaaa or Aaaa123, occasionally AAAaaa.
 * Many users with names matching the spambot pattern (mostly FirstLast) have an  of 1 (which gives a blue contributions link in Special:ListUsers) but an empty Special:Contributions, presumably because they created a new page that ended up deleted.
 * Other than novel surnames that arise from fortunate pareidolia, like "Britchihee", what you get out of this list isn't that much better than what you'd get out of A. any random fictional character name generator on the Internet, or B. going through Wiktionary, translating some notable attribute of your character's ancestor into Welsh, and anglicizing what comes out.

So I wonder if it'd be possible to make the filter nicer to users with names not matching the spambot pattern.