Talk:Whitelist

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Contents 1 Gladlist & Sadlist? 2 On moving to "Whitelist" 3 On moving to "Whitelist" 4 Requested move 4.1 Survey

[edit] Gladlist & Sadlist?

I really wish Gladlist & Sadlist were used instead of Whitelist & Blacklist.

I manage the SPAM filtering for my company, and lemme tell you: Having to tell the black person that I can add their colleague from another organization's email address to our Whitelist of 'good' emailers that aren't subjected to SPAM filtering is a special moment. Same for telling about the Blacklist we use to block email bad people we don't allow to send mail to us.

I wound up renaming them in-house, but I wish we could steer ourselves away from it in our language.

Wouldn't be justifiable to put mention of these alternatives it in the article page since they're nowhere near significantly used (only 3 hits for gladlist on google), but figured I'd whine about it here on the discussion page in the hopes of getting the notion seen a little.

-Pfwebadmin 19:00, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well... a totally unscientific straw poll of half a dozen black colleagues at work (Birmingham, England) to whom I mentioned your comment produced the following: one "I don't mind blacklist, but I think 'sadlist' is a great word!"; three in the category of "I'm not really bothered either way", and two along the lines of "it's political correctness gone mad!". None of them were in the least offended by "blacklist", and one of the two I mentioned at the end was actually quite offended by the "tokenism" he saw in the idea of changing it! Loganberry 13:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Another alternative is to use "green light list", and then presumably "yellow light list" and "red light list" or red,green,yellow list; while not as widely used as whitelist/blacklist, google shows some usage, and several antivirus programs incorporate the color or icon scheme of stoplights if not the actual terms. The yellow list also offers some flexibility not present in the black/white schema (graylist?) -dialectric

Imo it is indeed political correctness gone mad Towel401 (talk) 21:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On moving to "Whitelist"

I was going to move this page to "Whitelist" because Google generates 503,000 hits for "white list" and 2,190,000 for whitelist. However, after tweaking the quotations marks I found that white list (no quote marks) gets 267,000,000 hits, so I am going to leave the page here. CrypticBacon 05:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On moving to "Whitelist"

Searching for white list (no quotes) on Google yields a lot of irrelevant results, such as Mr. White's Listmania on Amazon. The comparison between "white list" and whitelist is a much more accurate comparison of usage. I suggest that this article be moved to Whitelist instead.

[edit] Requested move

White list → Whitelist – Whitelist seems to be more common according to Google and it would match blacklist. -- Kjkolb 07:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

• Support km5 17:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

This article has been renamed from White list to Whitelist as the result of a move request.