If you use an illegal pattern (eg, [user-raw]/[title-raw] instead of [author-name-raw]/[title-raw] on blog entry paths), you get a warning, but aliases are generated anyway.

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greggles
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

What do you suggest it do instead?

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xolotl commented

I think user should be warned and aliases with illegal patterns should NOT be generated. I don't see a use case for generating aliases with illegal aliases.

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greggles
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Users are already warned on the admin/settings/pathauto page. If that doesn't happen for you then that is a bug.

About the warning, what if you _really_ wanted to have [user-raw] within the URL? How should Pathauto know that in one case [user-raw] is a mistake and in another [user-raw] is on purpose?

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greggles
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (works as designed)

As it stands, this is by design. There is a warning, but doing more would be overly restrictive, in my opinion.