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Rmhsu[edit source]

Username: Rmhsu (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Structural Biochemistry/Chromatography/Thin Layer (filter log)
Description: 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)[reply]

Aveilleux[edit source]

Username: Aveilleux (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Polymorphic Data Structures in C/Function Invocation (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]; 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)[reply]

Mcld[edit source]

Username: Mcld (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Puredyne/SSH_into_your_Puredyne_system (filter log)
Description: 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)[reply]

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

Rivardau[edit source]

Username: Rivardau (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Peanuts (card game) (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

72.152.244.244[edit source]

Username: 72.152.244.244 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Jeep Liberty/Performance (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

72.205.8.79[edit source]

Username: 72.205.8.79 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Scouting/BSA (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

188.140.132.234[edit source]

Username: 188.140.132.234 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Chess Opening Theory/1. c4/1...e5/2. Nc3/2...Nf6 (filter log)
Description: 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)[reply]

Panic2k4[edit source]

Username: Panic2k4 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): User:Panic2k4/Sandbox/DumpingGround (filter log)
Description: 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)~~[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

93.65.1.207[edit source]

Username: 93.65.1.207 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Editing User:BORGATO Pierandrea (filter log)
Description: 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)
Date and time: 21:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Linasj[edit source]

Username: Linasj (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): [[1]] (filter log)
Description: adding information about escaping special characters in Scala XML processing
Date and time: 21:35, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Comments: Removed offending test that conflicts with XML code. --dark lama 22:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mhorton515[edit source]

Username: Mhorton515 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Transportation Deployment Casebook/The Rise and Fall of the Rail Passenger Car in the U.S. (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

Dcortega[edit source]

Username: Dcortega (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Proteostasis (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 06:07, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Comments

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)[reply]

Gueraurroz[edit source]

Username: Gueraurroz (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): sport innovation/active network tournament management software (filter log)
Description: 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[edit source]

Username: 64.33.154.90 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Game Maker Programming/Variables (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 23:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Comments

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)[reply]

186.114.61.186[edit source]

Username: 186.114.61.186 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing (don't wikilink): Structural Biochemistry/Protein function/Antibodies (filter log)
Description: 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[edit source]

Username: 66.30.95.45 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Parkour/Basic Moves/Underbar (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: I've applied the edit that you were attempting to make. – Adrignola discuss 12:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flyoffacliff[edit source]

Username: Flyoffacliff (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Talk:How to use a Motorola DVR (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

86.112.45.225[edit source]

Username: 86.112.45.225 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Create account (filter log)
Description: 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[edit source]

Username: Benjitheijneb (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User:Benjitheijneb (filter log)
Description: 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)
Comments: 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)[reply]

Janus Kannuberg[edit source]

Username: Janus Kannuberg (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Main Page (filter log)
Description: 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.
Date and time: 22:26, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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Rajmaan[edit source]

Username: Rajmaan (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User:Rajmaan/Jurchen (filter log)
Description: 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)[reply]

Halilkayaduman[edit source]

Username: Halilkayaduman (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: The Many Faces of TPACK/Investigating Turkey's Technology Initiatives with TPACK (filter log)
Description: This is my chapter. I could not change and anything on it.
Date and time: 18:57, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Comments: 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)[reply]

harry potter[edit source]

210.84.27.140[edit source]

Username: 210.84.27.140 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 07:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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Rob smith[edit source]

Username: Rob smith (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: R Programming/Data types (section) (filter log)
Description: I was adding commentary to a page, and updating some of the code to use the preferred '<-' assignment operator as opposed to the '=' assignment operator to reduce confusion for readers. Also, I was contemplating updating the code / output to follow the knitr convention of leaving code raw and output behind '##' comments for readers to have an easier time copying and pasting into their own R consoles but had not yet begun that process.
Date and time: 01:59, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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Rob smith[edit source]

Username: Rob smith (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: R Programming/Working with data frames (filter log)
Description: Was adding content, and added a link to the 'plyr' package for R (Journal of Statistical Software)... I'm thinking I might be doing something wrong on the system level, as I'm trying to add to the R Language book.
Date and time: 03:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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Editing Guitar/Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar[edit source]

87.112.216.208[edit source]

Username: 87.112.216.208 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Guitar/Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar (filter log)
Description: Talk page only contained unrelated song lyrics. Attempted to remove, but unable due to automated filter.
Date and time: 11:12, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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64.131.111.162[edit source]

Username: 64.131.111.162 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Talk:Information Technology and Ethics/Who commits cyber crimes? (filter log)
Description: Create talk page with an initial entry.

Add the following entry: Cyber crime and the Healthcare system was added by Bryan Stith as part of an academic assignment for ITMM 485, Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Technology, at Illinois Institute of Technology, and was edited by the course instructor (me). (signed)

Date and time: 21:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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Rvallimont[edit source]

Username: Rvallimont (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Wikibooks, History of Christianity (filter log)
Description: Add a link to http://orthodoxwiki.org/Timeline_of_Church_History_%28Nicene_Era_%28325-451%29%29 which is an Orthodox Wiki page containing an outline of the Nicene Period.
Date and time: 17:52, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
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Marx.edgar[edit source]

Username: Marx.edgar (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: I tried to upload my text about surface reconstruction in this wiki https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Neuroimaging_Data_Processing.

I was not allowed to save my work and I don´t know why. Please allow me to save my work, so that I can contribute it.

Description of the problem: Saving content on a page I created was not possible.

Date and time: 13:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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Albert R. Rice[edit source]

Username: Albert R. Rice (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Clarinet Hisotry (filter log)
Description: Information from two books that I wrote on the clarinet in 1993 and 2002.
Date and time: 19:54, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Write the most accurate information on this subject.

sdgrffg[edit source]

24.104.77.70[edit source]

Username: 24.104.77.70 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 15:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Handbook of Management Scales/Robustness[edit source]

I was unable to create this page, but me and other authors were able to create similar pages of the Handbook of Management Scales since years. The message reads as: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error." Does anybody know why this error occurs? 87.51.169.180 (discuss) 19:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

87.51.169.180[edit source]

Username: 87.51.169.180 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Handbook of Management Scales/Robustness (filter log)
Description: The following error occurs and I am unable to save the page: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error."
Date and time: 19:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Comments: Well, not it worked, after I tried again after a while. Strange error.; It does appear strange. Seems to be some kind of prevention for new or unregistered users adding large amounts of text in one go which might suggest a copy and paste of copyrighted text. Hopefully someone who knows the Filters better can help.--ЗAНИA ^talk 21:35, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]; I believe, after looking a little more, that this filter prevents unregistered users from creating lots of new pages within a short space of time. I have lowered the time that this filter kicks in. The filter will now allow unregistered users to create 2 new pages every 10 minutes. If this is an inconvenience then maybe it could be lowered further otherwise I would suggest logging in or registering an account.--ЗAНИA ^talk 21:46, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

userpage refused[edit source]

Awagner[edit source]

Username: Awagner (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: user:Awagner (filter log)
Description: Before editing substantial pages, I wanted to say a bit about me in my user page. Only text with one single external link to my project's homepage:

I am academic collaborator in the Project "The School of Salamanca. A digital collection of sources and a dictionary of its juridical-political language" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany. Beginning in 2013, we are building an xml/TEI database of ca. 120 texts from the 16th and 17th centuries using eXist-db and a customization of the oXygen editor. In the process, I am learning xQuery, XSLT, a bit of Java here and there and so on...

Date and time: 11:52, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Comments: I'm not great with the edit filter but I may have a look to see what the problem is. I suspect that it doesn't allow very new users to create a user page with external links until they've made a few edits. Anyway, for now, I have copied the above text onto your user page so hopefully you can now edit it to your heart's content.--ЗAНИA ^talk 19:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]; A quick look tells me that you triggered the filter because you created a new account and quickly created a new page with an external link. If you had waited a while (say, 20 minutes) or made edits elsewhere first then it would have allowed it. This filter is necessary at the moment because daily we receive a substantial amount of spam from spambots which make similar edits. I'm sorry you were inconvenienced - hopefully everything will be fine for you from now on.--ЗAНИA ^talk 19:19, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]; Thank you a lot. Probably I was too eager/hasty. Anyway, now all seems fine. Thank you again. --Awagner (discuss • contribs) 14:53, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gmjenks[edit source]

Username: Gmjenks (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Python_Programming/Sorted_Container_Types (filter log)
Description: Trying to create this page:

Maintaining Sort Order[edit source]

Python does not provide modules like C++'s set and map data types as part of its standard library. This is a concious decision on the part of Guido, et al to preserve "one obvious way to do it." Instead Python delegates this task to third-party libraries that are available on the Python Package Index. These libraries use various techniques to maintain list, dict, and set types in sorted order. Maintaining order using a specialized data structure can avoid very slow behavior (quadratic run-time) in the naive approach of editing and constantly re-sorting. Several implementations are described here.

Python SortedContainers Module - Pure-Python implementation that is fast-as-C implementations. Implements sorted list, dict, and set data types. Testing includes 100% code coverage and hours of stress. Documentation includes full API reference, performance comparison, and contributing/development guidelines.
Python rbtree Module - Provides a fast, C-implementation for dict and set data types. Based on a red-black tree implementation.
Python treap Module - Provides a sorted dict data type. Uses a treap for implementation and improves performance using Cython.
Python bintrees Module - Provides several tree-based implementations for dict and set data types. Fastest implementations are based on AVL and Red-Black trees. Implemented in C. Extends the conventional API to provide set operations for dict data types.
Python banyan Module - Provides a fast, C-implementation for dict and set data types.
Python skiplistcollections Module - Pure-Python implementation based on skip-lists providing a limited API for dict and set data types.
Python blist Module - Provides sorted list, dict and set data types based on the "blist" data type, a B-tree implementation. Implemented in Python and C.

Date and time: 23:03, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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62.3.239.168[edit source]

Username: 62.3.239.168 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[2]] (filter log)
Description: add SHELL command description
Date and time: 08:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
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ElisaTrippetti[edit source]

Username: ElisaTrippetti (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[3]] (filter log)
Description: I was trying to correct a grammatical error.
Date and time: 21:36, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Comments: The page you are trying to edit is an archived of old discussions - we do not edit them and the filters are there to prevent this happening. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 07:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

69.78.225.201[edit source]

Username: 69.78.225.201 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: correcting a mispelling of words (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 07:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Comments: The edit you made would have removed 90% of the text from the page and was therefore correctly rejected as probable vandalism QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 07:34, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

104.32.193.6[edit source]

Username: 104.32.193.6 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Computer Programming/Hello world (filter log)
Description: attempting to add example of mainframe programming language JCL which is essential to all MVS/zOS (the primary mainframe OS) activities.
Date and time: 16:57, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
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Unicode list of useful symbols[edit source]

72.172.1.40[edit source]

Username: 72.172.1.40 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[4]] (filter log)
Description: I added a large number of symbols I suggested adding to the useful symbols list.
Date and time: 23:05, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
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Oh sure after about an hour's worth of effort on my part I'm going to waste more of my valuable time waiting for editors to interrogate me. Only people with an unrealistic concept of reality would expect me to put up with this. My Wikipedia name is Abitslow, fyi. If I am not mistaken, this is the second time I've attempted to improve content and been prevented to on wikibooks (other was a different topic). It is especially galling when the content I posted was on the DISCUSSION page, not the article page! Hopefully, I will remember your restrictive software and never contribute to WB again. Just a really bad experience.

Grabbityx[edit source]

Username: Grabbityx (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Editing the book: C++ Programming. Chapter 1, section 2: Programming Languages (filter log)
Description: Make corrections to the page and rephrase context into a less redundant form of delivery.
Date and time: 08:23, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Comments

74.105.166.188[edit source]

Username

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

Page you were editing

[[]] (filter log)

Description

Date and time

22:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Comments

Take note that this is false positives. You were blatantly vandalizing, since the filter log is mostly accurate. --atcovi (talk) 22:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

J.Andrews.teacher[edit source]

Username: J.Andrews.teacher (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: KS3_Computing/RoleModels (filter log)
Description: I am trying to build a list of CS role models for the KS3 book. This is being reported as unconstructive - I do not understand why.
Date and time: 19:05, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Comments: When you made the edit you left in the "template" that is generated from the tool bar (e.g., where the text reads "bulleted list item"). The edit filter detects this as an editing test and warns (and eventually blocks if it is repeated) the edit. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 07:48, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting one's own content[edit source]

107.132.57.128[edit source]

Username: 107.132.57.128 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[5]] (filter log)
Description: wanted to delete my own, inappropriate, question
Date and time: 14:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Comments

Lferree1[edit source]

Username: Lferree1 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[6]] (filter log)
Description: I am simply trying to update the references on the website and keep getting this error. "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error. "
Date and time: 15:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Comments: See user's talk page. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:31, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

72.234.9.214[edit source]

Username: 72.234.9.214 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Edit_filter/False_positives

Trying to add a link(1) from the "IT" acronym wiki page to clarify certification terminology to the A+ certification wiki page, and error led me here. (1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology -- tried to add this link to A+ paragraph(related wiki page) to define the rem "IT"-- a colleague in the APA recently asked what the term "IT" meant. Added an extended resource for professionals who are nominally engaged with regard to "IT" community technical terminology. As a highly educated professional editor, I felt this liaison would enhance and expedite the exchange of accurate and timely information.

Date and time

15:47, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Comments

You can add the link, you just need to format it properly as a Wikilink ([[w:Information technology|information technology]]) and not as a URL. However, I must say if someone doesn't know what "IT" means it is rather unlikely they'd be reading a book on A+ Certification. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

false positive: add link[edit source]

Alexbatko[edit source]

Username

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

Page you were editing

[[7]] (filter log)

Description

I tried saving an edit, which was the addition of a link to international auxiliary language.

Date and time

21:48, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Comments

The instructions in the warning message should be clear. You should not add links to Wikipedia as "https://..." Use the correct interwiki format [[w:International auxiliary language|international auxiliary language]]. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:05, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

24.215.110.18[edit source]

Username: 24.215.110.18 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[8]] (filter log)
Description: Trying to RESTORE a massive deletion that someone else made. I need to read this documentation. My edit is flagged as destructive. It is not DEStructive, it is CONstructive. Will have to read previous revision. Meanwhile ordinary users will find the documentation is lacking. Unfortunate!
Date and time: 05:30, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Comments

24.170.201.247[edit source]

Username: 24.170.201.247 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: 14.2 (filter log)
Description: I'm trying to post this for my class
Date and time: 20:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Comments

Editing Iodine portion of a wikibook for a class assignment[edit source]

Jasminehan1225[edit source]

Username: Jasminehan1225 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: iodine (filter log)
Description: i was adding information to the page about iodine for a class assignment. Every time i typed the captcha and clicked "save page," the page looked the same. it did not look like i had saved it. so i tried again and was told i was spamming.
Date and time: 00:25, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Comments

Swp2sf[edit source]

Username: Swp2sf (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[9]] (filter log)
Description: I'm trying to add a section to the chapter of the book. This is for a class. My section seems to have tripped some filter as being "unconstructive"
Date and time: 00:50, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Comments: the warning message you received gives clear instructions on what to do. In brief do not add a URL to Wikipedia, instead use the correct interwiki format. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:15, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fractals/Computer graphic techniques/2D/algorithms - false positive[edit source]

Username: Adam majewski (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Fractals/Computer graphic techniques/2D/algorithms (filter log)
Description: put a c program checking area and a aorientation of the triangle
Date and time: 21:37, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Comments

It's not a false positive, you are incorrectly formatting the interwiki link. It should be formatted as [[w:Link to Wikipedia|Link to Wikipedia]]/ No http / https, no URL, etc. - QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 23:19, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok but I use automatic linking so this is not me. --Adam majewski (discuss • contribs) 15:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today a new link : procedure QmnPlane::backray() in file qmnplane.cpp is "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error." Can I swith off this filter ? --Adam majewski (discuss • contribs) 15:50, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have found a cause : filter finds a links in the comments inside the code. I think that it is a bug . --Adam majewski (discuss • contribs) 15:55, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pratyeka[edit source]

Username: Pratyeka (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Basic Photography/The camera (filter log)
Description: Change an existing paragraph, including changing its title, and adding lots more content.
Date and time: 21:47, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Read the instructions on the warning - do not enter a URL to Wikipedia; use the interwiki format. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:51, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I Can't Add a Link In[edit source]

Stafoya[edit source]

Username: Stafoya (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User talk:Stafoya (filter log)
Description: I am doing a school assignment on my user talk page and keep trying to add a link but I keep getting stopped. It says that I am trying to spam it. I keep doing the Captchas but it still won't let me. How do I put this link in properly?
Date and time: 12:05, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Do not add the content to your user pages as this will trigger a (correct) spam filter. If you want to edit a book, put your content there and not on your user page. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Justalex 28[edit source]

Username: Justalex 28 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 14:36, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Please help - trying to add signature and edits to educational project An Internet of Everything? and it's not working because I'm being automatically flagged as unconstructive Justalex 28 (discuss • contribs) 14:36, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do not add your signature - it is not supposed to be in the book. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:49, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting an error[edit source]

Toriettaaw[edit source]

Username: Toriettaaw (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 15:16, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Hi, I have encountered a problem recently. I have tried to submit an article that is part of my university project. The wikibooks would not let me submit as it seems to have detected an email in my article. However this seems to be a mistake since I have not included an email. Would you be able to help me fix it? Thank you.

Remove the external URLs you are trying to insert because these are triggering the spam filter. It would be better to actually edit the page in the book with the content rather than your user page as this will not trigger the filter. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:48, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

KZillwood02[edit source]

Username: KZillwood02 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 16:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Hi - I'm working on a class project educational assignment as part of a larger wikibook discussion and development. I keep trying to post on my user discussion page and get an error message saying that I'm trying to write an email. Please help!! KZillwood02 (discuss • contribs) 16:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Remove the external link to retina photos from your text - it is this addition of an external URL that is triggering the spam filter. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:47, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

SANGER A2[edit source]

Username: SANGER A2 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[10]] (filter log)
Description: Trying to create the page for the 2016 exam based on the 2015 page.
Date and time: 09:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Please add the text without the URL first. It should then let you add the URL on the second edit. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 10:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

70.98.142.254[edit source]

Username: 70.98.142.254 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: Parathropied esteem is instant talk. Wanted to comment more on transformative agency and its affect on a readers parathropied esteem. There is a correlation to one's achievement and though everyone develops at different paces; esteem is noted in actualization a quality of hard work and understanding. --70.98.142.254 (discuss) 19:25, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Date and time: 19:21, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Raquelita96[edit source]

Username: Raquelita96 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: An Internet of everything?/Public and Private Spheres in the Digital Age https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Internet_of_Everything?/Public_and_Private_Spheres_in_the_Digital_Age
Description: I was indicated that links to wikipedia articles had to be changed into internal links rather than external links, so I was fixing them and changing them to internal links.
Date and time: 18:02, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments

@QuiteUnusual:, hello, I am very sorry to bother you but I was wondering if maybe I could get some help with this, if it's not too much trouble? I'm just trying to complete this educational assignment and it seems very clear that I really do not know what I am doing.

The instructions are given in the message. Do not code "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_(computing) username" instead code "[[w:User_(computing)|username]]". QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:22, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanough[edit source]

Username: Thanough (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[11]] (filter log)
Description: and completed by the Wikinomics European project, both aiming to apply
Date and time: 13:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments

WMiller2222[edit source]

Username: WMiller2222 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Korean War and Vietnam War (filter log)
Description: A page I created with bullet points of information on each war at the request of the teacher that wikibooks be used s the medium for our information.

Create a page for an AP World History Project

Date and time: 18:13, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Osmo recurrent task info disallowed[edit source]

MajorLunaC[edit source]

Username: MajorLunaC (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Osmo_Documentation

I'm trying to make a documentation page on how to use recurrent tasks in Osmo. For now, I wanted to just copy and paste the info from a Puppy Linux forum that's referenced by Osmo devs, just in case it disappears (aka backup).]] (filter log)

Description: I'm trying to make a documentation page on how to use recurrent tasks in Osmo. For now, I wanted to just copy and paste the info from a Puppy Linux forum that's referenced by Osmo devs, just in case it disappears (aka backup).

I love how your automated filter error messages are just as bad and useless as those on Window$! I would fix whatever the problem is myself, but I don't know what it's complaining about. Thank you for Closing books for a still closed world.

Date and time: 18:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Zadrali[edit source]

Username

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

Page you were editing

JsonCpp (filter log)

Description

I tried to copy my JsonCpp page from wikiversity, to no avail.

Date and time

02:24, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Comments

After some experimenting, I succeeded to create the page.

It's because your account was new (here) and the text included a URL and therefore looked like spam. Waiting until the account is 4 days old or adding the URLs as a second edit (i.e., not when you first create the page) will usually bypass the filter. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:22, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

69.49.52.169[edit source]

Username: 69.49.52.169 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: The entire document, Interception (filter log)
Description: Trying to save the changes made
Date and time: 22:00, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Katiechechalk[edit source]

Username: Katiechechalk (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: description = I am editing the Interception page under the introduction to cognitive science (filter log)
Description: I am trying to add more information to the page
Date and time: 22:24, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Follow the instructions given when you try to save the page. Do NOT enter "https://en.wikipedia..." in order to link to Wikipedia. Instead use [[w:name of wikipedia page|name to display]]. Please also note that the Wikibooks style guide discourages adding lots of links to Wikipedia as the whole point of a book is to explain its content within the book itself, not rely on endless links somewhere else. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:43, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

SHELL command rejected[edit source]

62.3.239.168[edit source]

Username: 62.3.239.168 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: Qbasic command Appendix

Attempting to add description of QBasic SHELL command.

This is not the first time my attemmpt to improve the Appendix is been rejected, so I'll not be wasting my time further until SHELL appears.

Date and time: 10:37, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Chi Sigma[edit source]

Username: Chi Sigma (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[12]] (filter log)
Description: Replace the dull, pedestrian wall of text I wrote 10 years ago with something much more lively and concise that illustrates what opening theory is rather than simply describing it.
Date and time: 09:19, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Comments

DiogoCosta1998[edit source]

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True positive: Special:AbuseFilter/19 had detected example.com and not YouTube. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:17, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: DiogoCosta1998 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[13]] (filter log)
Description: Can't seem to put YouTube links
Date and time: 19:20, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Comments

71.3.137.126[edit source]

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True positive: an IP page is not a pedagogic book at all. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: 71.3.137.126 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: I was trying to create my user page but it failed. 71.3.137.126 (discuss) 15:04, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Date and time: 15:04, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Comments

NVQ candidate[edit source]

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True positive: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:27, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: NVQ candidate (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: All pages I am putting bold to the questions of exemplar answers for NVQ candidates to study How do I get the page displayed for learners to access?(filter log)
Description
Date and time: 07:22, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
Comments: @NVQ candidate: you just have to remove '''Bold text''' from your post, the filter works properly. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:26, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bryce Chinault[edit source]

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True positive: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:10, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: Bryce Chinault (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[14]] (filter log)
Description: I was trying to make the subcategory titles beneath the Annotated List of Actors section be larger than the text below each subcategory title. It looks nice in the preview when I click on it, but it says, "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error," when I click Save Changes.
Date and time: 01:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Comments: That was a true positive because your text contained "* Bulleted list item". JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:10, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Contributor es: Admin rights for the main editor of a book or faster (instant) reviews[edit source]

The following discussion has concluded. Please open a new discussion for any further comments.

True positive: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:31, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: Contributor es (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[15]] (filter log)
Description: Hello, I am the editor (contributor_es) of the GB Manual. and Additions have been pending since month, now I cannot overwrite not granted changes.

This makes no sense, can you plz grant me admin rights for the page to be able to edit without reviews - while other edits might keep the current status? Thanks.

Date and time: 13:12, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Comments: @Contributor es: we can see that you're good willing but way below the level of trust required for the Wikibooks adminship.; Moreover, the filter n°44 just expects the utilization of w: instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, so please follow this recommendation. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:31, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GenericName123[edit source]

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True positive: antispam rules. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:15, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: GenericName123 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Exercise as it relates to disease/An intervention to increase physical activity in children (filter log)
Description: I am creating the page as part of a university assignment for health, disease and exercise at the university of canberra. I am creating my own page as a summary of previously acquired information for said assignment.
Date and time: 14:04, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Sorry but in order to counter the many spams attempts, we can't allow the new user, with no books contribution, to post their URLs. @GenericName123: so I invite you to split your post in order to avoid to post any URL during the two first editions. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:15, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to add pages to the Handbook of Management Scales[edit source]

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Kind of rare false positive. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 12:50, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

filter log

An automated filter repeatedly prevented me from adding new pages to the Handbook. It reads: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error." So, I hereby report this error and hope that I will be able to add new pages to this useful resource in management research. Let me know when the problem is resolved. 95.166.61.216 (discuss) 09:35, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see, it's the first false positive for more than one month with Special:AbuseFilter/46, which has blocked many spam attempts during this period. As finally you could successfully post Handbook of Management Scales/Performance measurement system design for turbulence, I invite you to create an account or to persist the next time until your new IP grows a few minutes old. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 12:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Again: Unable to add pages to the Handbook of Management Scales[edit source]

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It's the same as above, please read it by clicking on its blue title. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Today I, again, tried to edit the Handbook of Management Scales. To be honest, this is an annoying bug. You might need to analyze why the software prevents people from editing the Handbook. I was able to edit the start page of the Handbook, but I could not create new pages. This was possible last time, but only after waiting several minutes between the edits and trying it several times. Today it does not seem to work at all. Really frustrating! 95.166.61.216 (discuss) 14:54, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Eventually it worked, after I have tried over and over again~, with long breaks in between. Not sure what to do. This is certainly related to the special format of the Handbook. I really ask you to analyze and improve the software that prevents people from editing here... 95.166.61.216 (discuss) 15:27, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently you didn't read my previous answer above. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Attempting to add SHELL command and explanation was rejected[edit source]

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Exceptional true positive: SHELL is interpreted as HELL. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username

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

Page you were editing

[[16]] (filter log)

Description

add SHELL (only)

Date and time

12:58, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Comments

I apologize but as it's pretty exceptional to write this word in capital, I don't want to touch this filter. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Building the Root 2 CNC Multitool Router[edit source]

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True positive: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 23:06, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: Sorvis (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Building the Root 2 CNC Multitool Router (filter log)
Description: I'm trying to create new book, but the edit filter is blocking me from creating the first page. Would it be possible to allow me to add the book please?
Date and time: 17:11, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Comments

@Sorvis: thank you for your patience, actually you have the right to create your book without the hyperlink to thingiverse.com in your first two editions. This filter can't be removed because it avoids Wikibooks to be just a link farm for spammers. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 23:04, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@JackPotte: Thank you for getting back to me. I think I understand. So I can just remove the links for now. Write the book then later on it should not be an issue to add the links once its established as a mature and useful book? Sorvis (discuss • contribs) 00:16, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Sorvis: yes, that's pretty much it. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:38, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

178.42.216.250[edit source]

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True positive: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 23:06, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: 178.42.216.250 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: User:178.42.216.250/vector.css (filter log)
Description: i was hiding the hand message on cookbook
Date and time: 21:08, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Comments

The personal CSS and JS are only available to the connected users. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jordank4[edit source]

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False positive: please avoid the URL while you are new, because of the spam filter. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:17, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: Jordank4 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[17]] (filter log)
Description: add to Chapter 8: Health and Healing a section about Fitness and Body Image
Date and time: 04:09, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Sorry but we are forced to let a URL filter for the new contributors because of the huge number of spams we had, it may work tomorrow. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:17, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I believe what I added is constructive, and do not understand what flagged it.[edit source]

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False positive: please format the Wikipedia links with w:. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:17, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: W01140629 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[18]] (filter log)
Description: ===Currency===

Currency refers to any form of money when it is actually used as a medium of exchange, most commonly represented in banknotes, coins, and now digital forms. A currency is a system of money where in most cases is produced and monitored by governments. The European euro, US dollar, Australian Dollar, Russian Ruble, Bitcoin and many other things fit under this definition. The values of the independent currencies often are influenced by each other in a global market driven by trade and foreign exchange markets. Governments often give value to banknotes, referred to by some as fiat money. Some currencies, like the US dollar, is used as a form of currency in some lesser developed nations over the hyper-inflated money printed by their state. Usually monetary values remain within the boundaries of its intended nations and states.

Alternative Currency[edit source]

Some forms of currency are given value by the global market and have no tie to a state, namely commodities such as gold, silver, and oil as well as stocks, bonds, derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. These currencies can be traded on the global markets, some being traded at every hour of the day. Physical commodities are given value by their practical uses, appearance, and even superstitions, regardless, they are transacted with and accepted as payment.

Bitcoin is a form of cryptocurrency, it is given value via the inherent principle of scarcity programmed at its core. Bitcoin is limited by computing power of its competitive network and the collaborative confirmation by the millions of nodes in its network of every single transaction. Each in every bitcoin transaction is in a sense, public information.

Date and time: 04:52, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Comments

Sorry but it had been decided that the Wikipedia links had to be short (w:example). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:13, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think we entered a positive addition and it was flagged[edit source]

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True positive: because it's more likely a bot job, the second report for two weeks, and a cosmetic detail which prevents the writers to save their works before reading a long policy, I've unticked the user prevention, so the filter will only warn in the future. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 12:40, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: Cwh3 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: Adding a new section on Nanoweapons, editing the preliminary info to expand and include more references.
Date and time: 02:28, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Comments: Done The Wikipedia URL should applead with "w:", but I've removed the blocking. Please try again and there will only be a warning to accept. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 12:40, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

50.109.159.27[edit source]

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False positive JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Username: 50.109.159.27 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Talk:Zoboomafoo: Zobooland Collection! (filter log)
Description: I have tried to create and complete a page, but you have blocked it.
Date and time: 13:17, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Comments

I was trying to complete a webpage, but it has been denied.

Special:AbuseFilter/46 is a throttle to vandalism which has worked properly.

Special:AbuseFilter/18 has pretty much the same role.

Could you please explain why Zoboomafoo would be a home-made pedagogic book rather than a fiction? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:18, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IP has been blocked for continuous acts of vandalism (see his deleted contributions). This user and many others are creating spoofs/cartoons/tv channels that are most likely promotional/or the like (I really don't know why but it's disruptive). The abuse filters that have prevented this IP to create his page about "Zoboomafo" (American-Canadian tv show) has done its job. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 22:17, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I was afraid to hypothesize this here without any proof. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unsaved Git/Systems[edit source]

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False positive but the filter is still needed. JackPotte (discuss • contribs)

Username: IM Serious (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Git/Systems (filter log)
Description: several hours of work looking fine in preview and no idea how to get them through

Creating Git/Systems

Your action has triggered the Edit Filter An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error. BoldItalicunderlinestrikeoutLinkEmbedded fileReferenceAdvancedSpecial charactersHelp

Date and time

09:23, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Comments

Done @IM Serious: I could move your post into the spam-protected page, because my account is old enough to be allowed to post URLs. Sorry for the disturbance but we had many many unproductive URL posters by the past (and still a few everyday). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:02, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jack Potte: Sorry, while i did understand your reasoning, i did not fully understand your vocabulary what action i had to take now, but your contribs to Git/Systems clarified it thankful for your help and this life-saving spam asylum: IM Serious (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RockyHIll[edit source]

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True positive, import process. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:03, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username: RockyHIll (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[19]] (filter log)
Description: I was moving this wiki article from wikipedia because this article is more of a howto than an article. It was suggested that wikibooks is the appropriate place for this.

I attempted to copy into my sandbox but was not allowed

Date and time: 14:05, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Comments

Please request an import at WB:RFI to retain the edit history. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
i had also failed with my sandbox before i resorted here which couldve been short-circuited with a clear warning: the edit filter will only let you to introduce your text to the edit filter editors directly and nowhere else on this site! --IM Serious (discuss • contribs) 23:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

208.131.186.33[edit source]

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True positive. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username: 208.131.186.33 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 16:50, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Comments

I am Vincent I am trying to sign in but I cancan.208.131.186.33 (discuss)

Please create your account, this one is taken. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:03, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sardonic tradesman[edit source]

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False positive: but the spam filter is still needed. JackPotte (discuss • contribs)

Username: Sardonic tradesman (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Corporate wiki (filter log)
Description: Trying to create a page
Date and time: 16:41, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Comments: Apparently you could post your links in a second time, so case closed. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:51, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

185.36.25.46[edit source]

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False positive on MetaWiki. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username: 185.36.25.46 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: meta:Special:AbuseFilter/131 (filter log)
Description
Date and time: 15:41, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Comments

This filter is not managed from Wikibooks, could you please split your post in a few pieces < 4,000 characters to bypass it? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Psequeirag[edit source]

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True positive. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:05, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username

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

Page you were editing

Talk:Basic_Computer_Security/General_Security_and_Passwords (filter log)

Description

I was trying to add the following comment:

I'm thinking it would be very useful to describe a concrete password policy that could be generally useful to anyone for personal use. For example, my current favorite is the one advocated by https://xkcd.com/936/, implemented with the aid of a password generator like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.me.eddies.apps.passphrase or http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html . This should be the policy that could be used for the master key of the password manager.

Date and time

05:49, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Comments

By trying to add 3 URLs in one edit, and as a new editor, it is being detected as potential spam. Make the edit without the URLs first. However, also bear in mind we don't allow promotional links or ones of little value. Adding a link to Google Play almost certainly falls into this category. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, thank you for the clarifications. I'll do as you suggest. --Psequeirag (discuss • contribs) 14:22, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

JayWikiDude[edit source]

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False positive. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:05, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username

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

Page you were editing

User:JayWikiDude (filter log)

Description

Tried to create my user page.

Date and time

12:42, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Comments

JackPotte, this does not look spammy at all, but I don't know how to solve this problem for this user. Can you help? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:45, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this is a false positive, I propose to allow the URL to the sister projects to solve it. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done @JayWikiDude: you can retry now. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:05, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]