User talk:Squab chowder

Explaining

I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS (talk) 12:35, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

As for the "possible self promotion" thing -- there are "edit filters" which screen out a lot of the more obvious vandalism and spam. The most obvious stuff simply gets prevented. The slightly less obvious stuff gets allowed and then instantly reverted by a bot; the bot then leaves a note saying "I instantly reverted your edit because the filter judged that your edit was not useful; if that was a false positive, I'm sorry, and please let my operator know about the mistake". Then there's the stuff that the filter deems "suspicious"; such edits get a brief descriptive tag in the edit summary to call it to the attention of human eyes.

I really don't know what criteria the filters use for making the subtler distinctions, but in your case it's a false positive. Sorry if you found the evaluation offensive. DS (talk) 13:35, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Goodness, Wikipedia has certainly become a lot more complex since I did some editing seven years ago. Thanks for explaining patiently and with such detail! Squab chowder (talk) 16:20, 9 November 2013 (UTC)