[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5083: Plugin Directory: Improve Trademark checks

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#5083: Plugin Directory: Improve Trademark checks
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch         |
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Comment (by Ipstenu):

 That would solve one part of the problem, but the other is I wanted to
 have separate messages for people.

 Problem 1 - banned words

 Facebook won't allow facebook (or FB or Face in relation to Facebook, see
 also Insta and yes that drives me to drink) **anywhere** in a permalink or
 name. Similarly, we're trying to discourage 'Gutenberg' in plugin slugs as
 they can't be changed and that's the project name, not the editor name. In
 those cases, people should get hard stopped and told "Hi, you're using a
 banned word."

 Problem 2 - banned 'start' words

 Brand owners would like to protect the start word (woocommerce-, bing-,
 microsoft- etc). Those should be told "Hi, you can't START with that term,
 please try again."

 Problem 3 - portmanteaus

 This one is NOT touched by this patch, but the issue there is, for
 example, "WordBook" -- if that was a Facebook/WordPress integration
 plugin, Facebook would like to stop you. It's something we just have to be
 vigilant for since it's hard to divine intent here :/

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