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176.108.139.1

Username

176.108.139.1 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

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]

Pinned – This thread has been pinned and will not be archived until this template has been removed. Pin for EFM. Nobody (talk) 12:11, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

151.73.62.36

Username: 151.73.62.36 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: 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]

Don't think it's worth it. This is the only false positive in the last 5000 filter hits that was affected by this. As for the edit to Time in Iraq, I've reverted it as it's clearly AI slop. Nobody (talk) 12:09, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

004bvan

Filter: 1328 (hist · log)
Log entry: 40734998
Affected user: 004bvan (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page they were editing: Jonathan Tyers (filter log)
Description: Reported by DatBot to AIV/TB2
Reporting user: 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me)
Date and time: 10:37, 8 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. Looks like a false positive. Nobody (talk) 11:47, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

5.44.170.181

Username: 5.44.170.181 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Casey Means (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: i was trying to revert this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casey_Means&diff=1289408920&oldid=1289408384
Date and time: 12:38, 8 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. Nobody (talk) 12:40, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Already done by FarmerUpbeat. Nobody (talk) 12:40, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

49.245.71.132

Username: 49.245.71.132 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: 1933–34 Serie A (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: Fixing incorrect remark that Juve dominated the decade. They only dominated until 1935.
Date and time: 16:11, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Already done. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 17:06, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

173.235.255.87

Username: 173.235.255.87 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: List of depictions of Steve Jobs (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: I didn't even do anything wrong I just wanted to share a very obscure topic to the public so more people can join,also the show is peak
Date and time: 17:14, 8 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) 18:26, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. Sources are the main problem here. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 19:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

201.189.190.82

Username: 201.189.190.82 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User:Waxworker (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 18:56, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 19:06, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deciplenov2

Username: Deciplenov2 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Draft:Ridiculamism (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: i was adding more detail about the holy scrippture
Date and time: 19:03, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. Hoax. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 19:06, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

73.108.26.197

Username: 73.108.26.197 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User:Waxworker (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 19:53, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments

Not Error Please

Not done – The filter is working properly. – Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 19:54, 8 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: 20:01, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Report fixed – Another user has added the page title from last triggered filter to this report. YouTubeFans2002 (talk) 20:02, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]; Consider requesting on the article's talk page; please provide the necessary references. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 00:00, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Raisønne

Username: Raisønne (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: japanese profanity (filter log) (user filter log)
Description: watching TV show Sunny, character describes insult “busu,” come to page here, note “Bullshit,” is spelled “Bulshit” (absolutely incorrect, english being my first language), it is also the only word in the list capitalized or followed by a period. i lowercase and remove period to make it consistent with the rest of the list.
Date and time: 22:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. @Raisønne: Sorry for the inconvenience. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MC Dispatch

Username: MC Dispatch (talk · contribs) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User talk:MC Dispatch/sandbox (filter log) (user filter log)
Description
Date and time: 23:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Not done – The filter is working properly. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:58, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]