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Rmhsu

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Rmhsu (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Structural Biochemistry/Chromatography/Thin Layer (filter log)

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I was editing a wikibooks page on thin layer chromatography under the major headline of structural biochemistry. This contribution in which I was attempting to make was to include a little more information about the retardation factor between a solvent and a compound of interest in climbing up a silica based gel. This contribution also included a descriptive picture, as well as a formula in which to actually calculate the retardation factor.

Date and time

07:35, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

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It was the "retardation factor" that triggered the filter due to it trying to detect vandalism with the word "retard" in it. I've adjusted the filter so that it should not affect you again. I also added the text to the page you were attempting to add. Sorry for the inconvenience. – Adrignola talk 13:05, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Aveilleux

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Polymorphic Data Structures in C/Function Invocation (filter log)

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I was attempting to edit the page Polymorphic Data Structures in C/Function Invocation to create the page, but my edit was disallowed. The current version of the page is located at User:Aveilleux/_Sandbox.

Date and time

21:45, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

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I've moved the page from your userspace into the book. I will look at the edit filter to check why it was triggered. Thanks. QU ^TalkQu 22:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

It was triggering because of the "[]" in the code, which was triggering the "test edit" filter, as the "[]" is a result of one of the buttons you see below the edit box. Sometimes vandals will go and try to edit a page and hit a bunch of the toolbar buttons. That filter was designed to catch that. I removed the portion of it that would look for the "[]" since I see it's used often in C++ code. – Adrignola talk 00:48, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Mcld

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Mcld (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Puredyne/SSH_into_your_Puredyne_system (filter log)

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Editing a page about using SSH connections, I added a simple SSH connection command, like this:

ssh live@192.168.1.74

Clearly that looks a bit like an email address, though it didn't occur to me until the filter shouted at me. I don't know if there's a way to distinguish this from email address entry, so I'm not sure it'll be possible to fix this false positive; but I'm reporting it FYI. Thanks.

Date and time

09:47, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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Hmm... this would be tricky to distinguish from a email address, perhaps we can check to see if a line begins with 'ssh', 'scp', 'sftp', etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thenub314 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I've tweaked the filter to be more like the link spam test and made it only add a tag for manual checking. --darklama 19:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Rivardau

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Rivardau (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Peanuts (card game) (filter log)

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adding a new how-to-play rules book about a card game that i love to play with my family

Date and time

22:19, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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Please refrain from including [[File:Example.jpg]] in your edits. If you do not have an image available, there is no need for a placeholder. Additionally, I would suggest placing a link at Card Games/List following the same convention you see on the page already, making the content you wanted to add a "subpage" of the Card Games book. – Adrignola talk 23:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

72.152.244.244

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72.152.244.244 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Jeep Liberty/Performance (filter log)

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This is a discussion of performance enhancements available for the Jeep Liberty. The last sentence of the paragraph currently states that there is only one vendor of ECU flash updates for the Liberty Diesel. Having been investigating this update for my Liberty, I am aware of at least one other vendor of ECU flash updates: Green Diesel Engineering.

I edited the last sentence to read as follows: "The ECU on the 2.8L CRD is made by Bosch, and at this time there are at least two companies offering a re-flash for the CRD ECU: one is Green Diesel Engineering and the other is INMOTION TUNING."

However, when I attempted to save this edited sentence, it was flagged by the automatic program as being Unconstructive.

Note: Regrettably, due to problems with the login program, I was unable to login with my Wikipedia username, Biscuiteater57, nor was I able to register separately under my Wikipedia username (which I prefer to do). I received error messages that the username already exists in the unified user login, but also that the username does not exist. I have submitted a trouble ticket about this problem.

Date and time

02:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

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Looks like you have made your edits now. You had added ''Italic text'' in your edit, which is what you get when you click the italic link in the toolbar but don't actually apply it to text. Many times people will test the software and just click buttons, so that's what triggered it. – Adrignola discuss 12:06, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

72.205.8.79

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72.205.8.79 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Scouting/BSA (filter log)

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some meritbadge requiremens were not ther and were just red I was trying to show them to another page that as all of the requirments

Date and time

23:33, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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You tried to make edits that were distorting headings on the page and left "== Heading text ==" and "'''Bold text'''" on the page from clicking the toolbar for bold and headings without modifying their default values. Please see Help:Editing and this will improve the appearance of your edits and avoid edits being flagged as test edit from the toolbar. – Adrignola discuss 14:50, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

188.140.132.234

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188.140.132.234 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Chess Opening Theory/1. c4/1...e5/2. Nc3/2...Nf6 (filter log)

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I was editing the page > the content under the title "McComiskey"

(McComiskey, Bruce. "Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a)." Rhetoric Review 11 (1992): 79-90. McComiskey concurs that Plato scholars do not contest Plato’s disdain for the sophists. However, Plato’s treatment of sophist rhetoric, particularly that of Gorgias, the Leontini rhetorician, divides scholars: some—Kathleen Freeman, Terence Irwin, and W.H. Thompson among others—read Plato’s treatment of Gorgias the sophist as fair and accurate; conversely, McComiskey, drawing his argument from extant fragments of Gorgias, sees these views as distorted and unfounded. Plato presents this distorted view of Gorgias’ rhetoric to gain the favor of an audience leery of anti-democratic sentiments. Plato’s audience would have memories of the tyranny of the Four Hundred and of the tyranny of the Thirty freshly in mind. These bloody revolts temporary supplanted Greek democracy with a Socrates-Plato endorsed oligarchy. Gorgias the sophist supported democracy; thus, Plato’s readers were unlikely to accept Socrates’ “defeat” of Gorgias if Plato did not depict Gorgias’ rhetoric in a conflicting and absurd light. McComiskey explains that unlike Socrates and Plato whose epistemology is foundational, based on some “external reality or immutable truth” against which to compare, to weigh impressions, Gorgias the sophist adheres to a relativistic epistemology based on the kairotic , the opportune, moment. Since human’s understanding of reality is filtered through the distortion of our senses, a kairotic moment is necessary to “unite disparate subjective” images (205). McComiskey concludes that Plato’s rendering of Gorgias’ rhetoric could never be supported by Gorgias’ the sophist’s relativistic epistemology.)

Date and time

21:07, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

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In the text being added was ":Indented line" which triggers this edit filter as it appears to be a test edit. If you remove this line the edit will succeed. Note, it doesn't appear in the content you pasted here, but it does appear in the edit filter log. Thanks QU ^TalkQu 22:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Panic2k4

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Panic2k4 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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User:Panic2k4/Sandbox/DumpingGround (filter log)

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I was cleaning and moving content between my pages. It triggered a filter. Can reviewers be excluded from the filter ? (Or/And users editing their own userspace)

Date and time

23:48, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

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There is a lack of information on what filter was triggered on the event log. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Ha, the "Specific-page vandalism" bit on the log is the "identity" of the filter Special:AbuseFilter. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:48, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I think it was the URL spam (copy paste of a section of links I had on another page) the filter will not detect commutative edits (of the same content), I've completed the action and I doubt that a change in the filter would be required or result in improvement (even so a reviewer should be considered trustworthy enough to be excluded from this type of spam detection, or at least susceptible to engage in constructive dialog if any deviation is detected, and it would be ground to have the reviewer status removed). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:13, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Don't panic. Pun intended. Was a syntax error in a filter that Darklama has helpfully corrected. – Adrignola discuss 00:52, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

93.65.1.207

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93.65.1.207 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Editing User:BORGATO Pierandrea (filter log)

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After a mistake, I wanted to retrieve a section from a previous version of the same page, and paste it in (so as to cancel the effects of the original mistake)

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21:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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Linasj

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Linasj (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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[[1]] (filter log)

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adding information about escaping special characters in Scala XML processing

Date and time

21:35, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

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Removed offending test that conflicts with XML code. --darklama 22:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Mhorton515

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Mhorton515 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Transportation Deployment Casebook/The Rise and Fall of the Rail Passenger Car in the U.S. (filter log)

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It is my page and it says that I can't edit it

I am trying to create my homework assignment

Date and time

00:23, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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Please refrain from creating galleries that make use of placeholders (File:Example.jpg|Caption1). You should not be using placeholders if you do not have actual images to place within the text. Your edits were seen as someone performing "test" edits by clicking buttons on the toolbar. Removing the empty galleries will allow the saving of the page. – Adrignola discuss 04:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Dcortega

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Dcortega (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Proteostasis (filter log)

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Date and time

06:07, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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Please do not take reference text out from between the <ref>...</ref> tags. Admins, note the relevant edit. – Adrignola discuss 14:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Gueraurroz

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sport innovation/active network tournament management software (filter log)

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I was trying to see which format suits best for my page, either using headings or bullets or paragraph form. But i think i should have pressed page preview to see the changes before attempting to save it. I just kept on pressing save page for each modification i made. Sorry im perfectionist. What to do? I need to save the latest modifications.

Date and time

06:02, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

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64.33.154.90

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64.33.154.90 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Game Maker Programming/Variables (filter log)

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Date and time

23:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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the page is blank

Looks like it has content to me. Why do you keep trying to remove all the content? – Adrignola discuss 04:15, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

186.114.61.186

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186.114.61.186 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Structural Biochemistry/Protein function/Antibodies (filter log)

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http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Structural_Biochemistry/Protein_function/Antibodies&action=submit

Date and time

22:42, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

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Antibody: An immunoglobulin, a specialized immune protein, produced because of the introduction of an antigen into the body, and which possesses the remarkable ability to combine with the very antigen that triggered its production.

66.30.95.45

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66.30.95.45 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Parkour/Basic Moves/Underbar (filter log)

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I had seen a video of how to do the move, and I thought the description in the article was faulty. It said to swing your body weight over the rail, when in reality you have to swing it under. That's why the moves's called an Underbar, not Overbar.

Date and time

04:39, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

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I've applied the edit that you were attempting to make. – Adrignola discuss 12:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Flyoffacliff

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Flyoffacliff (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Talk:How to use a Motorola DVR (filter log)

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I am try to blank this page, because their is only one question on it, and it is almost 4 years old, and whoever asked the question does not have an account and did not sign it.

Date and time

20:42, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

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Blanking pages is not the correct way to proceed. You either need to add {{delete}} to the page to request speedy deletion or raise a request for deletion QU ^TalkQu 21:39, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

86.112.45.225

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86.112.45.225 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Create account (filter log)

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I am a user on Wikipedia. I tried to create an account here using my Wikipedia user name and a different password. Whatever I try I get Login error: An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive. I cannot see that I am doing anything incorrectly - I enter the Captcha word, my Wikipedia user name, a strong password in excess of 12 characters, confirm it and then enter a valid e-mail address. I have closed the Wikibooks tab on my browser and reopened but this makes no difference.

Date and time

14:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Apologies, please disregard this request. I have just found out about account unification and set it up successfully. It has been several years since I last looked at My Preferences in Wikipedia - having just viewed it, I got the clue as to what to do.

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Benjitheijneb

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User:Benjitheijneb (filter log)

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Trying to create a user page in line with those on my other Wikimedia Foundation wikis (though with differences as per the different wiki).

Date and time

17:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Looks like the number of external links you were adding in one go triggered the anti-spam abuse filter. I've now created the page for you. The problem can be avoided by creating the page with no links, then adding them one by one. But you weren't to know that! Apologies, and welcome to Wikibooks. QU ^TalkQu 17:58, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Janus Kannuberg

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Janus Kannuberg (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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Main Page (filter log)

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I wanted wikibooks to have black background and pasted code from here: http://blog.obelisk.ro/2010/08/wikipedia-black-background-with-syntax.html. I worked, like on Wikipedia but this time an error message came.

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22:26, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Rajmaan

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User:Rajmaan/Jurchen (filter log)

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I was creating a user subpage to work on a Jurchen, Chinese and English glossary. I was repeatedly blocked by the filter.

The content of the subpage was as follows:

Die sprache und schrift der Juc̆en By Wilhelm Grube

http://annotator.jiang-long.com/

3.

Jurchen character (not in unicode yet)

Chinese transliteration

一能吉 yī-néng-jí

Chinese Translation

日 rì sun

Date and time

23:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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Your problem is caused by creating the page with a URL included as this is a common spamming behaviour. If you create the page without the URL you will be able to add it afterwards QU ^TalkQu 08:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Halilkayaduman

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Halilkayaduman (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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The Many Faces of TPACK/Investigating Turkey's Technology Initiatives with TPACK (filter log)

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This is my chapter. I could not change and anything on it.

Date and time

18:57, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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I see that you have now created the page. The issue was that new accounts aren't permitted to create new pages with links in them, to combat spammers. As you've discovered, this no longer applies after your account has aged sufficiently. – Adrignola discuss 20:44, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

210.84.27.140

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210.84.27.140 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)

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[[]] (filter log)

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07:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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