Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Archive 93
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Jack Boltwood
- Username
- Jack Boltwood (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 12:06, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done. User blocked for vandalism. Filters working as expected. Bradv🍁 12:54, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
209.249.55.204
- Username
- 209.249.55.204 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 18:09, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Filter doing its job, stop screwing around. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:11, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Bassic Sax
- Username
- Bassic Sax (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- [[1]] (filter log)
- Description
- I was trying to update the link to my website. The link provided has the .ca extension, which is a re-direct. All I was trying to do was direct it to the current extension of .info I apologize if this caused a problem. I actually only created this Wiki account to update my friend's page--which is a stub at present--and I figured while I was at it, I would check to see if any of the links to my site were outdated. My bad.
- Date and time
- 18:35, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- Blocked for WP:CORPNAME. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:39, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
77.11.90.175
- Username
- 77.11.90.175 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Stare Rybitwy (filter log)
- Description
- Tried to add /| pushpin_map = Poland/ and at the same time replace the template call via redirect (Template:Infobox Settlement) with a direct call (Template:Infobox settlement)
- Date and time
- 20:25, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
In the Edit filter log it says "20:21, 30 November 2018: 77.11.90.175 (talk) triggered an edit filter, performing the action "edit" on Stare Rybitwy. Actions taken: Disallow; Filter description: IP bot editing" - but that is misinformation, not bot involved. 77.11.90.175 (talk) 20:27, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
47.227.155.210
- Username
- 47.227.155.210 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Maitland Ward (filter log)
- Description
- Added edits the occupation to reflect the transition of Ward from model to pornographic actress as evidenced by content on her premium Snapchat and Patreon page. Ward gets paid by Snapchat and Patreon subscribers to create videos of her engaging in explicit sexual activity including sexual intercourse with on-camera vaginal penetration with a human penis and other phallic objects, as such her occupation fits the description of "pornographic actress". This content is also freely available on numerous websites (e.g reddit etc). including dedicated pornographic websites such as pornhub, xhamster, xvideos etc.
- Date and time
- 13:34, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
122.54.12.155
- Username
- 122.54.12.155 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/The_Voice_(U.S._season_15)
- Description
- Date and time
- 12:43, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done There is a standard way of providing checkboxes on that page, and this is not it. Please discuss your suggested improvements at Talk:The Voice (U.S. season 15). Bradv🍁 18:10, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Mjams
- Username
- Mjams (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- labia (filter log)
- Description
- I was editing the page to be less exploitive of women. It is a page that gratuitously shows female genitalia. When viewing the page entry for penis, there are zero images of human male penises, the page on labia should be the same. This is an online encyclopedia, not a porn site.
- Date and time
- 20:52, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done I suggest bringing your concerns to the talk page of the article and establishing consensus first. The filter is working as intended. Bradv🍁 20:59, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
24.254.82.88
- Username
- 24.254.82.88 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Paul R. Abramson
Simplify listed information, update format, add external links
- Date and time
- 21:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Goatflats
- Username
- Goatflats (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Penitential Rite (filter log)
- Description
- Fix some typos
- Date and time
- 02:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- I can't view this one because it's private, so I can't tell whether it was a false positive or a bad-faith edit. However, it is likely that you didn't actually insert Daniel C. Boyer into it; "Daniel" and "Boyer" are both located on the same line due to being the authors within refs and it may be that this filter detects edits using
added_lines
? Of course, these are just educated guesses and I could be completely wrong. Pinging Musik Animal as someone who can access private filters and frequently helps out here.--SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 03:18, 2 December 2018 (UTC)- @Goatflats:
Done Clearly a false positive. I've made the edit; sorry for the trouble. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:56, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Cyberpower678: This looks like your filter. I went through the last 20 hits or so, and 100% of them look like FPs. I'd suggest disabling, but I seem to recall a recent ANI thread about DCB, so I guess we need something. But perhaps it can be a bit less ... aggressive? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:09, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Goatflats:
Oscargrillo
- Username
- Oscargrillo (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Axe (brand)
- Date and time
- 02:20, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
The page showed incorrect and outdated informations
- Username
- Oscargrillo (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Axe (brand) (filter log)
- Description
- Updating incorrect and outdated info
- Date and time
- 02:22, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Youtube is not a reliable source, and the content you're trying to add likely isn't appropriate. The filter is doing its job. Bradv🍁 19:13, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Vladanr
- Username
- Vladanr (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (filter log)
- Description
- Removed passage incorrectly citing The Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini of Jerusalem as the "chief architect of the Nazi German offensive in Bosnia" (Bosnia was in fact occupied by the German forces during the invasion of Yugoslavia, then ceded to the puppet state of Independent State of Croatia) and the person having "had Serbian Cyrillic outlawed" (implicitly also in Bosnia, though the passage is unclear), which is also factually false as this was done by NDH authorities 15 days after the puppet state was formed and 2 years before al-Husseini first visited the region.
- Date and time
- 19:17, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @Vladanr:
Done. This filter hit looks like a strange coincidence, so I made the edit. It's unlikely to give you any more problems. I'm not familiar with the subject matter, so if anyone disagrees and reverts me, please take this up at Talk:Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:09, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
162.72.14.1
- Username
- 162.72.14.1 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- I wasa trying to describe lead poisoning
- Date and time
- 00:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Stop screwing around. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:28, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Alexletroll
- Username
- Alexletroll (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- /e/ mobile operating system (filter log)
- Description
- to show notability, i was trying to add a reference to a youtube video with a recording of the OS and the apps being used. The title of the youtube video [1] has a unicode character in the title
- Date and time
- 13:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- I would say remove the emoji from the end but that video doesn't meet our reliable sourcing standards at any rate. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
References
- ^ And /e/ Goes Marching On...✌
96.84.202.109
- Username
- 96.84.202.109 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 16:45, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Stop screwing around. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:47, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Meganmartin3306
- Username
- Meganmartin3306 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- list of Scottish companies (filter log)
- Description
- edit the spelling of a company name
- Date and time
- 21:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done @Meganmartin3306: Should I just block your account now, or would you like to grow up? Ian.thomson (talk) 21:03, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Yaboiboby
- Username
- Yaboiboby (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Sperm Jars (filter log)
- Description
- I was not doing anything innapropriate. I was just adding facts I learned in colledge.
- Date and time
- 23:22, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Filter doing its job (and not well enough). Ian.thomson (talk) 00:00, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
CyclingSal
- Username
- CyclingSal (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Bill Ivey (filter log)
- Description
- I added a link to the Wikpedia page for Calumet, MI and also deleted the word "small" to describe the town as it was a subjective term not offering further details. I also provided the location of Calumet (Located on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula"
- Date and time
- 23:59, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @CyclingSal: It's a false positive but not a useless one. I think it was probably triggered because you were formatting the link wrong. See entry 1 in User:Ian.thomson/Guide#Links,_italicizing,_bolding,_green-text_quoting,_signing. See if entering the link as "Calumet" works. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:05, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Ian.thomson: Actually it was a critical missing n in Peninsula.
Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:41, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Ah right, as critical as the space in "the pen is mightier than the sword." Ian.thomson (talk) 02:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Ian.thomson: Actually it was a critical missing n in Peninsula.
68.194.243.213
- Username
- 68.194.243.213 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Human male sexuality (filter log)
- Description
- I was edited an extremely biased entry that misinterpreted scientific studies, and at times outright lied about the results. If you check the existing citations and read the studies, this will be confirmed. Additionally I removed language that was harmful to women (with no citations and riddled with grammar mistakes), promoted rape as a strategy to get more parters, and parts that misinterpreted studies to promote veiled and implied racism.
- Date and time
- 20:18, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- Unless you were editing another article from a different address, the only filter you tripped was Filter 61, which just tags the removal of references (regardless of quality) for further review by human editors. It was Kirbanzo who reverted your (first) edit, but I see you've already started a discussion at his talk page. If anyone else reverts your (second) attempt at changing the article, a better place to discuss this is Talk:Human male sexuality. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:46, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Suffusion of Yellow:Thank you. My edits were reverted back, but this time it didn't tell me who did it. I did what you recommended and posted on the page's talk page.
2001:67C:1220:8B4:84:5E3D:4252:2B1
- Username
- 2001:67C:1220:8B4:84:5E3D:4252:2B1 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- FITkit (hardware) (filter log)
- Description
- Fix grammar and spelling mistakes, add relevant information and references
- Date and time
- 11:40, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Done I didn't see Brainfuck mentioned in the source, but its use seemed plausible enough. You may want to add more references, when you get a chance. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:01, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Mathguyjohn
- Username
- Mathguyjohn (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Fluorocarbon (filter log)
- Description
- Adding line: "A study from the University of Padua has revealed that PFCs may be implicated in a reduction in penis size and male fertility.[1]
References
- ^ https://nypost.com/2018/12/05/nonstick-frying-pans-can-make-your-penis-smaller-study-says/.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty|title=
(help)"
- Date and time
- 20:45, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @Mathguyjohn: This is a false positive, but there's no way we can use a clickbait story from the NYPost as a source for medical information. The original study would be better, but not good enough; we would still need a reliable secondary source as well. See WP:MEDRS for the full details. If you think you've found a better source, try bringing it up at the article talk page. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:18, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Shanenodrunk
- Username
- Shanenodrunk (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 07:45, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done ―Abelmoschus Esculentus talk / contribs 10:32, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
2602:306:33C3:B3F0:B087:744A:FB37:A8DD
- Username
- 2602:306:33C3:B3F0:B087:744A:FB37:A8DD (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- 61st Annual Grammy Awards (filter log)
- Description
- Adding the Music Video/Film Categories, as they were missing from the page
- Date and time
- 00:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Done. It was the word "APESHIT", of course. Probably not much need to allow that in general, but I've made the edit for you, with some minor fixes. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
LTPHarry
- Username
- LTPHarry (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- DHX Media Toronto (filter log)
- DiC Animation City (filter log)
- DIC Animation City (filter log)
- Description
- Made them as redirect entries, and for some reason they triggered Filter 650, which has never happened ever when I did the same things to other pages.
- Date and time
- 21:03, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @LTPHarry: In the case of DHX Media Toronto, there is a stray space at the beginning of the line. In the others, there is an unneeded colon after the
#REDIRECT
. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:15, 9 December 2018 (UTC)- Thanks, I must have accidently done them when I created them. Luigitehplumber (talk) 21:22, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
EighteenFiftyNine
- Username
- EighteenFiftyNine (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- NGC 7469 (filter log)
- Description
- Copy edit EighteenFiftyNine (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Date and time
- 00:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @EighteenFiftyNine:
Done. Sorry for the trouble. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Cyberpower678: The modified filter I emailed you a few days back does not match this edit. Thoughts? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Suffusion of Yellow, I've not seen your email until I checked my junk mail folder. You ended up in there. I will apply it.
- @Cyberpower678: So our attempt to discuss the edit filter was ... stopped by a filter? Ah well. Thanks for applying the change, and sorry about the
article_namespace
bit; I had been testing this on a local copy of MediaWiki, and haven't upgraded to one that supports thepage_
variables yet. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:34, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Cyberpower678: So our attempt to discuss the edit filter was ... stopped by a filter? Ah well. Thanks for applying the change, and sorry about the
- Suffusion of Yellow, I've not seen your email until I checked my junk mail folder. You ended up in there. I will apply it.
- @Cyberpower678: The modified filter I emailed you a few days back does not match this edit. Thoughts? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
216.165.95.146
- Username
- 216.165.95.146 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Kang Chiao International School (filter log)
- Description
- I was trying to add helpful information that would help other readers get a better sense of the school.
- Date and time
- 01:46, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done You were also trying to add vandalism, which suggests that the other changes were deliberately inaccurate. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Eponine999
- Username
- Eponine999 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Lancashire Heeler (filter log)
- Description
- Trying to delete an external link to a site called Curlies which seems to be a site advertising specific breeders contravening Wikipedia guidelines.
- Date and time
- 01:59, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- Curlie is the successor to the old DMOZ aggregator of WWW links; it is not an advertising site. What you have been doing also deleted all the categories into which the article falls. I have reverted your latest deletion. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:25, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
JN66432
- Username
- JN66432 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag (filter log)
- Description
- changing one line of the lyrics which are incorrect
- Date and time
- 21:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
@Suffusion of Yellow: I don't think the filter can be expected to discriminate between archaic British slang and the more common, and commonly abused, use of the term "fag". While it is technically a FP, I think it unreasonable to expect it to do so (or to expend the programming effort for it to do so). General Ization Talk 21:21, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- @General Ization: (Already sort of replied on User talk:JN66432) Yes, the filter is probably unfixable (or at least not worth fixing), but that doesn't justify removing JN66432's report. Only the blatantly bad faith reports should be removed. Newbies need not worry themselves with what's an "unreasonable" fix and what isn't; that's for us to sort out. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:40, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- @General Ization: (trying to keep things in one place...) And as to your suggestion on User talk:JN66432 of checking for "Lucifer", yes, that would work, but for performance and readability reasons, there would need to be a strong justification for adding it. These seem to be the only two uses, so you are correct, it's not worth the trouble of fixing. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
86.177.99.250
- Username
- 86.177.99.250 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Dorset County Grade A list players(filter log)
- Description
- I was trying to add Darren McBride who played for Dorset in 1991
- Date and time
- 11:28, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @86.177.99.250: I have formatted your article to the correct format. [Username Needed] 10:33, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- It was the "♠†|" in the cite note that caused the problem, this looks like something that could be fixed by making cite notes an exception. Pinging @MusikAnimal:. [Username Needed] 10:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
114.142.170.20
- Username
- 114.142.170.20 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Kinshuk Vaidya (filter log)
- Description
- She was trying to type "! Year !! Show !! Role !! Channel !!" directing under where it says "==Filmography==".
- Date and time
- 16:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Vandalism. Filter is working as intended. [Username Needed] 10:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
178.148.184.217
- Username
- 178.148.184.217 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Merlinka_Festival (filter log)
- Description
- I'm trying to add the winner Documentary named Tranny Fag in English and Bixa Travesty in Portuguese.
- Date and time
- 18:28, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Done. I've made the edit, but of course most uses of that phrase will be vandalism, so I don't think the filter needs changing. Let us know if you have any more trouble. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:54, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
99.231.152.222
- Username
- 99.231.152.222 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- I was trying to change the sight to describe what happened with the Red River Rebellion!
- Date and time
- 23:02, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done You were trying to carry out vandalism. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
69.29.254.24
- Username
- 69.29.254.24 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- what
- Date and time
- 02:47, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Filter worked --DannyS712 (talk) 02:51, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
73.56.44.226
- Username
- 73.56.44.226 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 06:10, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Filter working as intended. Use the Sandbox for tests Victor Schmidt (talk) 15:17, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
94.155.68.202
- Username
- 94.155.68.202 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Talk:Origins of rock and roll (filter log)
- Description
- I tried to express my doubts about a claim in the article, alleging a sexual connotation of the phrase "rock and roll" in the sea shanty Johnny Bowker, in the following words:
- Does the line "Oh do, my Johnny Bowker, come rock and roll me over" in the sea shanty really have a sexual connotation, as the article claims? I'm not sure that the first cited source really states this, and the second one is just the lyrics themselves. The notion that the sailors, while hoisting a sail, would routinely entreat a fictional Johnny Bowker to come and sodomise them strikes me as a bit too odd.
- Date and time
- 22:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- I see you've found your way around the filter. The public description is "Talk page abuse" so perhaps you can imagine why it mistook your edit for something abusive. I've looked through the recent hits and there's some really horrible stuff in there, so I'm hesitant to suggest any weakening of this filter. If you have any more trouble, feel free make more reports here. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response. For the record, I will note that I completely disagree with your overall attitude to the issue as reflected in this and other responses I see here. Just because *some* idiots are vandals, to be on the safe side, *all* users are being forced to go to some ridiculous, Victorian-style lengths to avoid triggering filters - if "sodomise", which is a matter-of-fact, formal and clinical term, is considered too dangerous a word, I expect that we'll soon be talking about "unmentionables" again. Stupid vandal scribblings haven't killed anybody and aren't worth making it impossible for everybody to use normal English. Of course, there is probably also the element of punishing IPs for being IPs, because I assume that the filter doesn't apply to registered/logged-in users. This is the first time I run into such an absurdity on Wikipedia, so I can only see it a reflection of a general current trend towards increased acceptance of censorship on the Internet and elsewhere.--94.155.68.202 (talk) 02:05, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Well, I said I was hesitant to suggest weakening the filter, not that it should never be done. When I say "horrible" stuff, I'm talking about the kind of nasty personal attacks that tend to drive good editors away from the project. Maybe you can brush off the worst abuse from the meanest Internet Tough Guy, but we can't expect every editor to have similarly thick skin.
- That said, to the best I can tell from a tiny sample, the specific word that tripped the filter here doesn't seem to correlate spectacularly well with abuse. @Zzuuzz: You mentioned a while back an interest in trimming this filter. I don't know any better way to search through old filter hits than paging through Special:ApiSandbox results and CTRL-Fing, but from what I can tell, it's a mix of good and bad. Going back to about August, there's this FP, plus another one at Special:AbuseLog/22494585. Before that, there's the questionable Special:AbuseLog/21854122, and the filter-working-as-intended Special:AbuseLog/21847634. It's possible that I missed some, but with a 50% FP rate, perhaps the word isn't needed. Thoughts? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 04:47, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- The IP user should note that we try very hard to reduce false positive hits, and I'd suggest they underestimate the amount of severe abuse this site gets on a constant basis. If they haven't hit the filter before I think that's a good sign. That said, beyond the general I happen to know exactly what specific type of vandalism this filter entry refers to, and I'm willing to try removing it in its current form at this time. Done. -- zzuuzz (talk) 06:37, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- I am quite aware of the large amount of vandalism that occurs on Wikipedia, and I do appreciate the valuable work done to counteract it, even if I don't think that a complete ban on the use of certain words is the way to do this. As for personal attacks on talk pages, I think that these should be - and generally are - penalised with blocks and bans, but should not - and cannot possibly - be precluded in advance by automatic filters. And in any case, my impression is that personal attacks involving extreme profanity or rape threats are extremely uncommon occurrences on Wikipedia talk pages, so I highly doubt that they are among the most important factors driving off good users. That said, I'm thankful that you have made some modifications with respect to the specific problem.--94.155.68.202 (talk) 04:23, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- The IP user should note that we try very hard to reduce false positive hits, and I'd suggest they underestimate the amount of severe abuse this site gets on a constant basis. If they haven't hit the filter before I think that's a good sign. That said, beyond the general I happen to know exactly what specific type of vandalism this filter entry refers to, and I'm willing to try removing it in its current form at this time. Done. -- zzuuzz (talk) 06:37, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response. For the record, I will note that I completely disagree with your overall attitude to the issue as reflected in this and other responses I see here. Just because *some* idiots are vandals, to be on the safe side, *all* users are being forced to go to some ridiculous, Victorian-style lengths to avoid triggering filters - if "sodomise", which is a matter-of-fact, formal and clinical term, is considered too dangerous a word, I expect that we'll soon be talking about "unmentionables" again. Stupid vandal scribblings haven't killed anybody and aren't worth making it impossible for everybody to use normal English. Of course, there is probably also the element of punishing IPs for being IPs, because I assume that the filter doesn't apply to registered/logged-in users. This is the first time I run into such an absurdity on Wikipedia, so I can only see it a reflection of a general current trend towards increased acceptance of censorship on the Internet and elsewhere.--94.155.68.202 (talk) 02:05, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
2600:6C40:6280:1B:3CD7:1BC6:315B:8D3A
- Username
- 2600:6C40:6280:1B:3CD7:1BC6:315B:8D3A (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Hosea (filter log)
- Description
- Date and time
- 19:10, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
164.76.35.217
- Username
- 164.76.35.217 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Carl Tanzler (filter log)
- Description
- I was adding a reference to Carl Tanzler from popular culture - a new music video by some artists I know who were inspired by him.
- Date and time
- 06:17, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done. Several days have passed, and Google can still find no mention of this anywhere on the web. The claim seems plausible enough, but still needs a source. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:36, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Fjricardo
- Username
- Fjricardo (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Francisco_J._Ricardo (filter log)
- Description
- Corrected formatting error in citation https://medium.com/neon-tommy/film-review-f-for-franco-ac92640b0fa6.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty|title=
(help) which was missing the closing braces, and added title "Film Review: ‘F For Franco’" to citation. - Date and time
- 01:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Done, but see the note I left on your talk page yesterday. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:38, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
2600:8803:2500:4E90:A47B:630A:3387:F564
- Username
- 2600:8803:2500:4E90:A47B:630A:3387:F564 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Christian Potenza (filter log)
- Description
- I was attempting to add another credit to his filmography, and it was detected as non constructive.
- Date and time
- 04:45, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Done. The word "crappy" tripped the filter. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
74.207.117.116
- Username
- 74.207.117.116 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Marquis de Sade (filter log)
- Description
- added an addendum to the introduction adding context to him being described as "sexually libertine". He would pay young girls to rape them, and he would whip poor women he kidnapped. Without the knowledge that de sade was a rapist and pedophile, the phrase "sexually libertine" is devoid of important context.
- Date and time
- 17:31, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done No sources provided for the addition. EggRoll97 (talk) 10:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Username Needed
- Username
- Username Needed (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Vanuatu National Football Team (filter log)
- Description
- Not my edit. See [2].
- Date and time
- 12:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
[Username Needed] 12:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Not sure how this filter managed to catch this, no dates were changed. Don't know whether it is vandalism or not, but this filter shouldn't have caught it. [Username Needed] 12:19, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
Txnydork
- Username
- Txnydork (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Floss (dance) (filter log)
- Description
- I wanted to add Brendon Urie under the aspect of popularity. He is the front singer of Panic! At The Disco and he has been performing the floss dance on stage a lot since his Pray For The Wicked Tour in 2018. So he should be at least named as one representative of the floss dance.
- Date and time
- 14:36, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Comment: Please include a reliable source that indicates that this is correct and significant enough to mention. LynxTufts (talk) 15:30, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
50.100.150.13
- Username
- 50.100.150.13 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Shoppers World Danforth (whoever put the link in put in a link to a porn site that had an almost identical url - you need to check urls' added for crying out loud) (filter log)
- Description
- Date and time
- 23:26, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done ―Abelmoschus Esculentus talk / contribs 00:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- @50.100.150.13: I've removed the link. According to the Wayback Machine, it was legit at the time it was added, but it looks like it was hijacked sometime later, perhaps between 2009 and 2013. The filter was objecting to you removing all the categories along with the link, then later adding a shouting!!! commentary. @Abelmoschus Esculentus: Why not? I didn't click on that link, but wget returns what is clearly a porn site. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:25, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
- It wasn't the removal of the link that was the problem, but he was replacing it with a message, which should be left on the talk page, not in the body of the article. [Username Needed] 13:54, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- @50.100.150.13: I've removed the link. According to the Wayback Machine, it was legit at the time it was added, but it looks like it was hijacked sometime later, perhaps between 2009 and 2013. The filter was objecting to you removing all the categories along with the link, then later adding a shouting!!! commentary. @Abelmoschus Esculentus: Why not? I didn't click on that link, but wget returns what is clearly a porn site. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:25, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Impru20
- Username
- Impru20 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- 2019 Spanish regional elections (filter log)
- Description
- I've been trying to add this image to the infobox yet the
abusefilter-disallowed
message keeps popping up. I've made a few attempts and confirmed this just pops up with the image (other edits work fine). At Special:AbuseLog it shows up as "Filter description: Image vandalism III" (?). I do not know what is making the filter to tag this edit as such. - Date and time
- 11:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- I've added the image to the article. You should be able to perform further tweaks to that infobox as required. Bradv🍁 12:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Bradv: Thanks for it, but I'm attempting to move the image from place within the infobox and the error pops up again, blocking me from conducting such a change. Basically, I'm attempting to have it so that the "map" field looks like this:
| map = [[File:SpainRegionMapRegionalControl2019.png|435px]]
- But it is not allowing me to do so. I do not know what is going on; this is the first time I experience something like this. Impru20talk 15:02, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- I just tripped the same filter trying to perform this. Any admins here that can help? Bradv🍁 15:07, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- I tried several various test edits with slight changes (a different image, changing the "file" parameter with the "image" one), with the filter popping out at every attempt. However, I got rid of the
[[:File:...]]
syntax, using an alternate shortcut allowed by the infobox template, and it seemingly worked. I don't know what could have been triggering the filter, though. Impru20talk 15:36, 29 November 2018 (UTC)- Glad you figured it out. I believe this filter restricts users adding images to infoboxes, and you got around it by avoiding brackets. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Further comments from others about whether this filter was behaving as intended are welcome. Bradv🍁 15:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Crow:, could you take a look at this? It probably shouldn't be doing this for ExtendedConfirmed users. [Username Needed] 09:49, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Working fine, as of now. ∯WBGconverse 12:14, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- The filter in question was a bit too aggressive and the creator has disabled it. CrowCaw 18:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Working fine, as of now. ∯WBGconverse 12:14, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Crow:, could you take a look at this? It probably shouldn't be doing this for ExtendedConfirmed users. [Username Needed] 09:49, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Glad you figured it out. I believe this filter restricts users adding images to infoboxes, and you got around it by avoiding brackets. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Further comments from others about whether this filter was behaving as intended are welcome. Bradv🍁 15:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
- I tried several various test edits with slight changes (a different image, changing the "file" parameter with the "image" one), with the filter popping out at every attempt. However, I got rid of the
- I just tripped the same filter trying to perform this. Any admins here that can help? Bradv🍁 15:07, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Addwhereican
- Username
- Addwhereican (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- List of comedy clubs in the United States (filter log)
- Description
- Add in North Carolina clubs that were not listed including the Dead Crow in Wilmington and the Idiot Box in Greensboro as well as adding a North Carolina listing for Helium clubs.
- Date and time
- 20:16, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- @Addwhereican: The filter tripped on the word "idiot", so this is a false positive. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we have articles on either Dead Crow or The Idiot Box (comedy club), so these clubs should probably not be listed until articles are written about them. Otherwise, the page will become hopeless spam magnet. If you think either is notable, you can try creating short articles at Draft:Dead Crow and Draft:The Idiot Box (comedy club) and submit them for approval through the articles for creation process. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:38, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
213.135.59.12
- Username
- 213.135.59.12 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- HTML5 (filter log)
- Description
- Titles for the references for the rb and rtc elements in the second table in the section "W3C and WHATWG conflict" contain the relevant tags. When they were unescaped this did not work well - they were present unescaped in the resulting page. When I escaped them using < this got flagged by https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/879
- Date and time
- 10:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- My understanding is that there are some badly-configured proxies out there that mangle text in a way that looks exactly like what you were doing. So, off the top of my head, I can't think of a way to fix this, but suggestions are welcome. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:06, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm, unless there are proxies that only convert > to > or & to & but leave the < alone, or proxies that convert some of the < but not all of them, then checking for
!("<" in added_lines)
might stop some FPs. But I'm not totally familiar with this filter; there may be proxies that do exactly that. @Zzuuzz: Your thoughts? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:25, 18 December 2018 (UTC)- I've pared it back to only check for < and < (as above). On a side note, this problem doesn't seem as widespread as it once was. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:30, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm, unless there are proxies that only convert > to > or & to & but leave the < alone, or proxies that convert some of the < but not all of them, then checking for
Bruce Hochstetler
- Username
- Bruce Hochstetler (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Dismissal (filter log)
- Description
- trying to correct a factual error in description of Rocket"s f-bomb done live that led to his dismissal.
- Date and time
- 11:29, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Not done Good-faith edit but not a false-positive. Generally claims like that need a reliable source. [Username Needed] 13:45, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Jockandcup
- Username
- Jockandcup (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 06:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
Good grief, I was talking about Conrad the Sailor, a well known cartoon character. He is kind of a mini-hero amongst the US Navy. Whatever you folks are up to, you can be sure we will not be part of it. Sad, because we risk our lives every day for your freedom.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jockandcup (talk • contribs)
- @Jockandcup: The article is not a forum or a blog for you to reminisce on. In fact, no part of this website is a general discussion forum. Ian.thomson (talk) 06:39, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
72.160.58.200
- Username
- 72.160.58.200 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Natural Balance Pet Foods (filter log)
- Description
- Correcting a vague statement by identifying a previously unnamed individual. Specifically, I wanted to change the sentence "...lunch with the show's band drummer[who?]" to "...lunch with the show's band drummer, Joey Herrick." I also provided a reference for this addition.
- Date and time
- 18:06, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
I just added the content that you were trying to add, it looks like the filter objected to a new user adding a reference that included the word "dick", which was being used as a name, not a vulgarity. Tornado chaser (talk) 18:13, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
Jajijacja
- Username
- Jajijacja (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- KeSPA_Cup (filter log)
- Description
- add 2018 LoL KeSPA Cup 100,000,000 KRW => 90,823 USD Prize pool
- Date and time
- 17:27, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
@Jajijacja: looks like the filter objected to a new user adding "LoL" but in this case adding "LoL" made sense, so I have done the edit for you. Tornado chaser (talk) 18:15, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
71.54.133.237
- Username
- 71.54.133.237 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 08:31, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- For reference, he was trying to replace "Negative reviews" with "Mixed reviews". It tripped the "Bad words or other vandalism" filter. [Username Needed] 17:40, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
2602:304:CF8C:4980:90DB:8B01:AE26:540B
- Username
- 2602:304:CF8C:4980:90DB:8B01:AE26:540B (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- penor (filter log)
- Description
- of what???
- Date and time
- 17:17, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- Description of the edit you were trying to make. I cannot see it (the edit) since it tripped a private filter. [Username Needed] 17:38, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Not done Bad faith attempted edits and report. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:42, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
108.4.244.174
- Username
- 108.4.244.174 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- OH-6 Cayuse (filter log)
- Description
- On 2018 December 22 at 18:38 GMT was editing the list of variants because a link was not formatted properly. Rearranged some all caps text. All caps is the correct formatting in this case. Was flagged for submitting an all caps edit. Pushed through edit anyway. This issue is probably not easily fixable.
- Date and time
- 18:42, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments
- Thanks for the report. FWIW, this filters hits whenever the
added_lines
consists entirely of capital letters, punctuation, and whitespace, and theremoved_lines
does not. Problem is, you removed a pipe character (|
), and that's considered a "Math symbol" instead of punctuation, so the only theadded_lines
matched. Of course the pipe character could be added to the regex, but that may very well introduce more false positives. If the user has figured how to pipe wikilinks, chances are they're not a SHOUTY VANDAL. - I'd say that if this is a one-off occurrence, the filter is probably not worth fixing, but if this kind of thing is common, perhaps it needs different logic. A quick skim of the recent hits reveals nothing but garbage, apart from this edit, so I'm not going to suggest any changes at this time. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
2600:6C64:617F:CBD1:4DD7:DD7B:4026:D89C
- Username
- 2600:6C64:617F:CBD1:4DD7:DD7B:4026:D89C (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Z Berg (filter log)
- Description
- I was trying to add information about Z Berg's new single which she released in 2018 with Ryan Ross.
- Date and time
- 20:53, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comments