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176.108.139.1 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Horace M. Albright (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Poorly constructed filter that cannot understand acronyms like ISBN, DOI, ISSN & OCLC.

Date and time

06:02, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Edit was not disallowed though a change to the filter may be needed. Using acronyms in a edit summary shouldn't trigger the filter. Nobody (talk) 06:31, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think we could add a second check below the first summary check that looks something like this: !(summary rlike "DOI|ISBN|ISSN|OCLC") – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 13:44, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, PI7. Using contains on a regex exclusion means that it must look for the exact string, and using rlike (using regex) should look to exclude summaries that have DOI, ISBN, ISSN, or OCLC. Codename Noreste (talk · contribs) 16:32, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah you are right. I had copied some earlier code with contains in it on accident. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 17:59, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2409:4073:11D:6607:61B4:B34E:B981:E7F6 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Pegging (sexual practice) (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

I believe this error occurred because I edited some existing content, including quotes. However, as you can see, I corrected it according to the original sources and also made some copyedits elsewhere. You can verify the changes against the cited references. Additionally, I have added new content, all of which is accurately sourced.

Date and time

14:03, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

This was filter 614, one of EFFPR's mainstays, and was triggered by the word "femboy". Leave it out, and I think the edit should go through. Duckmather (talk) 16:53, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done – The filter is working properly. Technically a false positive, but not worth to change the filter over this. Nobody (talk) 09:12, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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73.108.26.197 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Philip Proctor (filter log) (user filter log)

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Date and time

21:34, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 01:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Eunicedanny (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Brassic series 1 (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

I was adding the correct Title of the six episodes in series 1

Date and time

23:53, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 01:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2607:FEA8:42DF:6E10:104C:F3CB:8DE7:1EE (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Tina Turner (filter log) (user filter log)

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Date and time

03:53, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done – The filter is working properly. Annh07 (talk) 03:57, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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151.73.62.36 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Time in Italy (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

The current iteration of the page is a long winded AI generated text that barely conveys useful information and the information it does provide is repeated multiple times, it also containts useless fluffy descriptions (for example calling it "important" at the start of the article for no discernable reason and also describing in weird detail what italians could do with their time gained by daylight savings)

I was hoping to revert it to the last iteration of the page that is not written like that, but it is being flagged as disruptive (and i think it for some reason believes I am removing all content and putting nothing in its place? even if I am putting the old iteration using the same manner described on the Help:Reverting article, where it says "you load the text editor with a past version of the page, and then publish that, making it the current version")

I am ultimately not a usual Wikipedia editor though so this is up to whoever ends up reading this!

Date and time

06:19, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. I agree that the recent changes to that article have too many issues to be called an improvement. Nobody (talk) 09:07, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think of expanding filter 3's edit summary check so that it sees "revert" after any word boundary instead of only at the beginning? Should Time in Iraq also be reverted? Jruderman (talk) 09:12, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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103.53.118.205 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

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Viking ship (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

I was trying to add an important peice of information about the ship and I did nothing wrong.

Date and time

08:07, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Declined – Edits were vandalism. Nobody (talk) 09:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]