Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Rolling archive

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This page contains a rolling archive of recent edit filter false positive reports. This page is updated by a bot; please don't edit this page unless you are manually unarchiving a thread to continue a discussion. By default, 25 most recently archived reports can be viewed here, and older reports will be removed. Currently, no permanent archive of false positive reports is kept. To see older reports, you can search through the revision history of Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports.

Wishyouwerehere87

Username: Wishyouwerehere87 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Thomas Docherty (politician) (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: yall a bunch o adam blacks for banning me
Date and time: 16:37, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments

User blocked – Wishyouwerehere87 (talk • contribs) blocked by Ad Orientem. (automated comment) — MajavahBot (talk · contributions) 16:55, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2601:283:C480:4460:BCA0:F253:2048:F483

Username: 2601:283:C480:4460:BCA0:F253:2048:F483 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Demographics of Chile (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Idk
Date and time: 16:55, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Declined – Edits were vandalism. –HirowoWiki (📝) 18:16, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2A02:A03F:65D7:1100:498B:7C96:855D:8843

Username: 2A02:A03F:65D7:1100:498B:7C96:855D:8843 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Holes (film) (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 11:56, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. Definitely a false positive, but the tone of your addition is unencyclopaedic. Specifically, read WP:COLLOQUIAL. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 14:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

120.89.81.4

Username: 120.89.81.4 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User talk:NZSA10 (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 13:01, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 14:37, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2600:1017:B825:2007:24E8:3331:5DB8:FB7

Username: 2600:1017:B825:2007:24E8:3331:5DB8:FB7 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marie-Rose Tessier (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 17:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments

User blocked – 2600:1017:B825:2007:24E8:3331:5DB8:FB7 (talk • contribs) blocked by Nthep. (automated comment) — MajavahBot (talk · contributions) 17:35, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

73.108.26.197

Username: 73.108.26.197 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Philip Proctor (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 13:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 14:36, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dyop2020

Username: Dyop2020 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Technology (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: I was hoping to add a simpler and more relevant definition of "Technology." But I am not a programmer and do not know how to "properly" edit the Wikipedia page.
Date and time: 15:16, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Edit was not disallowed and the filter appears to be working properly. Why put that info on a projectspace redirect page? – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:15, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2603:8000:2200:5491:5480:D471:D4F8:ED0E

Username: 2603:8000:2200:5491:5480:D471:D4F8:ED0E (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 17:34, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – In general, "notable people" lists and similar are only meant for people who already have articles about them. If you think this person meets our notability guidelines, please see Help:Your first article. If you think an exception should be made here, please discuss the matter on the article's talk page. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:15, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tobggg

Username: Tobggg (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Spamming (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: I was trying to add a section that detailed the information on online message spamming, and demonstratign thedifferent types of spamming whether they be keyboard smash spam, or repeated copied and pasted spams
Date and time: 22:46, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. Not the correct article for that. See Glossary of video game terms#Spamming for the term you are talking about. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:08, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marco Keiner

Username: Marco Keiner (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Marco Keiner (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 18:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. @Marco Keiner: Don't blank the article while adding the template and your edit should be allowed. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 00:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

70.162.133.122

Username: 70.162.133.122 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Page not specified
Description
Date and time: 00:15, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. Annh07 (talk) 00:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah right

Username: 78.101.188.214 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: German-occupied Europe (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 06:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Declined – Edits were vandalism. Annh07 (talk) 06:17, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

130.234.240.119

Username: 130.234.240.119 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Nemtsy (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Changing the redirect for this term: new target has more content about the ethnonym Nemtsy. The reason why I am restoring many of my edits is explained at User talk:Materialscientist#Mass reverts.
Date and time: 14:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:14, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IslaAntilia

Username: IslaAntilia (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Wu Chun (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 18:02, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager. Duckmather (talk) 01:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Not done – The filter is working properly. I highly doubt that's an appropriate source for that content, but you can suggest it on the talk page if you wish, I suppose. EggRoll97 ^(talk)05:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

47.153.179.242

Username: 47.153.179.242 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Self-regulated in learning (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 20:59, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Already done. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 00:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2601:280:5C00:2220:F42D:3B04:EF85:D7AD

Username: 2601:280:5C00:2220:F42D:3B04:EF85:D7AD (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Forney Museum of Transportation (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Correcting information on Henschel locomotive that was discovered through extensive research, and adding links for various things, including wikipedia page linked to locomotive type, link to information on place where locomotive ran, etc. (I am the Collections Manager of the museum in question.)
Date and time: 04:23, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: This looks like it might be a genuine false positive (it was triggered by the gs_lcrp parameter). But your edit was unsourced anyways, so Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. Duckmather (talk) 02:03, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

14.194.186.101

Username: 14.194.186.101 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Novalnet (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 07:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. Annh07 (talk) 07:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uncle Bash007

Username: Uncle Bash007 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Poonpirom Liptapanlop (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: This source is gotten from the Wikipedia library in the link below - https://eds.p.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=70098aa4-b919-4634-a521-294dac74e7b6%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=32618367&db=bth
Date and time: 09:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. From what I know the linkprocessor url should always be used for EBSCO sources from TWL. Nobody (talk) 10:05, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

46.188.136.172

Username: 46.188.136.172 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: List of ethnic cleansing campaigns (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Fascist Italy war crimes in occupied Yugoslavia
Date and time: 12:04, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager. – – DreamRimmer ◆ 10:14, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. I'm not necessarily interested in making this large edit to a page marked so heavily with CTOP notices without deferring to the talk page, and I doubt anyone else wants to either. I don't think what you're adding is covered under PIA, but I'd...rather not. EggRoll97 ^(talk)05:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2601:646:203:E7B0:A26B:8CD1:B6E4:B736

Username: 2601:646:203:E7B0:A26B:8CD1:B6E4:B736 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Girls on Top (British TV series) (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item?item=T%3A06733
Date and time: 23:03, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager. Annh07 (talk) 01:11, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. EggRoll97 ^(talk)05:30, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2601:3C3:C180:3A50:3C6B:B3C3:7AD7:FA01

Username: 2601:3C3:C180:3A50:3C6B:B3C3:7AD7:FA01 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Hebert Box (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Changing the very first "A" to "An", as Hebert begins with a vowel sound (AY-bear).
Date and time: 10:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Done – The edit for this report has been implemented here, but no changes to the filter were made. –HirowoWiki (📝) 10:32, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

66.244.123.115

Username: 66.244.123.115 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Mountaintop removal mining (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 19:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Declined – Edits were vandalism. Annh07 (talk) 20:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

168.86.208.8

Username: 168.86.208.8 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Page not specified
Description: kna.n asdio;jh dasica line, describe what you wesjx;nbnehildc;nqwjre trying to do. Do not addsasasasaaas your signature, please.

Leave the rest of this page intact -->

Date and time: 20:32, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Declined – Edits were vandalism. Annh07 (talk) 20:43, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

208.58.209.77

Username: 208.58.209.77 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Nigger Rock (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 20:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Declined – Edits were vandalism. Knitsey (talk) 20:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

31.190.145.56

Username: 31.190.145.56 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Page not specified
Description
Date and time: 16:27, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: No filters triggered recently. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 16:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]