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I tried to undo the section blanking but I couldn't do that. Manual undo didn't work either.
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04:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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I did the edit for you. The problem is that certain words and phrases are used by vandals; when an anonymous or new user adds them, it's usually vandalism. The filter can't tell, even with the best of tweaking. עוד מישהוOd Mishehu04:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Minor edit improving grammar and adding citation for root beer ingredients. "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error." Never seen that before.
This page has been created before but due to the lack of experience with Wikipedia so it has been deleted as it could not been created properly. Now, i have started to work on this page with adding more wide and wealthy information, references, sources and pictures about the foundation which is important for many audience living in UK as well as in Saudi Arabia and Middle East. The founder is a public figure and has a lot of charitable activities within the Education sector as well as public community in UK, KSA and Middle East. The page is important as it gives a lot of information about the foundation, activities, etc.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance and look forward to your potitive feedback please.
In the "Episode Title Quotes" section, I was trying to add the confirmed title of the upcoming episode, "Hot Poop", but the filter sees this as an unconstructive edit and won't allow me.
Your edit appears to have worked, but the article you created has been tagged for speedy deletion (too short, no indication of importance). —Bruce1eetalk07:23, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I was correcting some incorrect data with the years of some of the events and trying to insert a table but 'a filter dected my post as potentially unconstructive' so can an administrator or moderator please review the filter and allow my edit. Thanks in advance.
You attempted to delete an entire article and replace it with a clumsily-phrased dictionary definition. There is no validity to your complaint. --Orange Mike | Talk03:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
minor edit of wording for clarification and amplification
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01:59, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
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I asume that your refering to anonymous edits which were done to this page; if that's the case, the problem is the fact that the edits included a signiture (four tildas). עוד מישהוOd Mishehu11:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I was trying to correct the mistakes that I noticed. It's called 15-Year-Old Girls because you must be 15 years old or older to start a band of any kind. Hot and sexy were just what I thought on the subject matter.
I removed the link to the Georgia (country) WikiProject since this list is about people from the state of Georgia in the USA. I was advised that this was the best course of action in the Teahouse. I was warned that removing info and leaving the page blank was not good, but honestly I didn't know what else to do. (As a sidenote there is a typo in your instructions; the last line contains "externmal"--I believe it needs to be changed to "external.") Thanks for your time.
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03:52, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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I see that your edit was accepted, though I'm not sure why the edit filter interpreted it as page blanking, because it wasn't. I see also that another editor has added the correct project for the US state. —Bruce1eetalk06:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Unable to give my opinion on a question of when parenthetical clarification is or is not necessary in titles. No idea what language tripped the filter. Help?
I am doing constructive, professional work and my reward is some bureaucracy, please check what I was doing, if this persists I will not contribute to Wikipedia again
"* On 12 September, it was announced that Matteo Rabottini had tested positive for EPO in an out of competition test on 8 August.[1] This was the third EPO positive for the pro continental team Neri Sottoli in 18 months, as both Danilo Di Luca and Mauro Santambrogio had tested positive in April 2013. Rabottini was provisionally suspended by UCI and removed from the Italian line up for the 2014 UCI World Championships.[2]
Most of this section is a definition list, where the defined terms themselves include colons, e.g. "0000: Interrupt Acknowledge". In this context, that is interpreted as wikitext, leading to an awkward presentation. I was converting them the colons to HTML entities, as in "0000: Interrupt Acknowledge" so the colons could appear as apparently intended.
This apparently triggered an "ASCII art" edit filter, but what that filter does or triggers on is not available, so I don't know how to preceed further.
Attempted to post a conventionally formatted discussion comment. It triggered an "ASCII art" edit filter. (Cf. #71.41.210.146 above: something is broken.)
Date and time
20:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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Looking at the diffs, you appear to be trying to sign your posts with "~ ~~~~" rather than simply the four tildes. That's probably what's triggering it. Black Kite (talk)22:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Sheesh, I had no idea that using a tilde as a "curly dash" was not permitted. Henceforth I shall delimit my signature with an "em dash" lest I be banned for abuse of illicit punctuation, which is apparently a worse offense that failing to sign one's post. — 66.81.255.206 (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Yes, it's a false positive; using the tilde is fine, but obviously something about the single tilde-space-four tildes combination has previously been used as part of something disruptive. That's the problem with edit filters - they work most of the time, but they can never be 100% correct. Black Kite (talk)23:00, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, thanks for identifying the problem. I appreciate the difficulty of getting an abuse filter right. Recognizing also that it can be dangerous to point out when something is wrong, I have decided against posting the comment that originally triggered the filter. I doubt that any community sysop would have a problem with it, but I don't even want to think about how some WMF sysadmin might react. (Besides, I already deleted my draft.) — 66.81.255.206 (talk) 00:55, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
I tried to include this comment on a page with a part of its history missing. I am curious what happened in this case. Did Wikipedia lose a bunch of edits around Nov. 2011? The Talk filter system rejected the comment.
"Here[3] is this page between October and December 2011 (there are no changes in between.) And here[4] is a snapshot from November 2011. Notice (アレフ lit. Aleph/Alef) is missing. I remembered this because I had made this edit myself. Is this a scandal (histories are not kept intact) or did Wikipedia lose its database around this time?--184.63.132.236 (talk) 11:35, 16 September 2014 (UTC)"
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11:35, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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There aren't any deleted, revision-deleted or oversighted edits in between those two dates. If the external site's snapshot is correct for that date, then I would guess some sort of database glitch is the only answer to that. Black Kite (talk)14:02, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my father was a historian at the U.S. Department of State. Shortly before passing away in 2010, he requested that his finished manuscript be published for free use. In accordance with his wishes, his estate has had the manuscript published for several years at www.mabon.net/book
NSC-68 is referenced directly by name 7 times in the book, between pages 107 and 344, per the reference and link below.
I am being blocked from posting this because the filter is misidentifying the entry as spam. Please kindly unblock me and publish the below.
I was trying to create a page about Northern Soul, the film which is to be released on 17th October. It is based on the emergence of black american soul music in the north, which is of particular interest to a lot of people. For some unknown reason, I am being blocked from doing so, even though my article is impartial and for educational purposes only.
I removed the "Defunct Ontario federal electoral districts" category from this page, because the Waterloo federal electoral district is no longer defunct. It was abolished in 1996, but has been recreated and will be in effect for the next Canadian federal general election in 2015.
I was trying to add the picture Klinikum Darmstadt Neurologie2 but it was detected as non constructive. Thank you for checking this question. Also, please note that I have created links to this page, so it should not be an orphan anymore, if you could remove the notice on top it would be great. Thanks in advance. Best regards.
Date and time
07:17, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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Bosnian royal claimant entry from Library of Congress
Add this entry from Library of Congress, but an editor claims it's a hoax while not providing any reference let alone a reliable one. Claims are recorded as are, especially when they are 5 years old any referred to by Library of Congress. Recording them is the job of encyclopedias too.
Date and time
22:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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It's not the other editor's job to provide a reference to disprove your claim - you need to cite a *verifiable* reference to support your claim. Just saying "The Library of Congress" isn't enough information for us to verify your claim (it could mean that you just wrote something yourself and filed it with the Library). What's your specific source? NawlinWiki (talk) 00:48, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, in any case, that discussion does not belong on this page. What's relevant here is that you accidentally added ~~~~ to the article in your edit, which the filter was designed to catch, so this isn't a false positive. --Jasper Deng(talk)22:46, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Regardless, this page is for discussion about the filter. Content questions should go to the appropriate talk pages, such as the administrator's talk page.--Jasper Deng(talk)01:06, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
I've looked at the sources, and they are all *you* -- i.e., the self-proclaimed King of Bosnia (as well as a self-proclaimed scientific genius whom the world is conspiring against, etc etc etc), issuing your own press releases and sending your own materials to the Library of Congress. We require *independent* sources, see WP:V. In any case, Jasper is right about the use of this page. Any further discussion should be on my talk page or the talk pages of the article at issue. NawlinWiki (talk) 13:00, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Not clear what you mean by "you" but I have no personal interest in the affair whatsoever. All I am saying, is that the Omerbashich's claim is as valid as the next person's. It is actually required under the law that the claimant himself (or his authorized representative) makes the claim. The table in question records only claims and nothing else, meaning only the claim's existence needs to be verified. You do not do that based on third-party sources but on the original claim, period. In any case, I did provide the Library of Congress as well as independent local media sources, which obviously are not "him". That is more than what other entries have, such as the obviously bogus Ukraine entry. As I said, double standards. You now admitted it, so going to your talk page to continue this nonsense would be a waste of time. An encyclopedia whose administrators play mind games and do not assume good faith is not open. 85.234.144.92 (talk) 13:17, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
A press release this morning confirmed the full track listings of the Queen Forever album. I tried to add these under the new heading "Track Listing", replacing the "Confirmed Tracks" heading. I also tried to reference the link to the press release, which backs up my edit.
Added new content and a few recent media appearances and coverage and citations. I also attempted to add
Date and time
16:33, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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I suspect this is a false positive, but I would point out that your edit does not appear to be resolving the issues brought up at the AFC page. (IMDB is not a reliable source, by the way). Black Kite (talk)13:49, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Attempted to add another example of a recursive acronym company name, "VISA, VISA International Service Association, pre-IPO name of credit card association". I was not logged in, and clicked the "Signature and timestamp" icon before saving (don't know if that is relevant).
I tried to save a draft page and received an error message like "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive ..."
Date and time
22:20, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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It is almost certain that a random letter combination in an article written in German is producing a false positive. I would suggest you try translating it before attempting to store it in an English Wikipedia page. Black Kite (talk)13:46, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
I am attempting to create a word that describes a condition that many black and or dark skinned people face. although discrimination and racism exists, this word describes the reason way black and dark skinned people are profiled, discriminated against, and hated for no other reason than their skin color. It is a real problem, and I would like to create an article that others can add to, to help create this word.
I tried to delete this page due to the fact that Suzanne Banay Santo is not a public figure, and is relatively unknown.
The references for the information are not factual and in some cases fake.
This page was likely written by Santo, therefor making it entirely biased and irrelevant.
I was in the middle of a large edit to a page and needed to log off of the computer I was using so I was attempting to save my work for later by making a copy as a userspace draft instead of submitting the edit partially-done in the article space.
Your edit wasn't really vandalism, but that doesn't really matter; in the end, I have deleted the page due to misuse of user talk space. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 16:27, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
I am adding relevant information about the projects and reference links about Shri group achievements. Please accept my edits.
Date and time
11:24, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
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@Pratyushkmishra: Please don't repeatedly revert to your preferred version of the article; see the manual of style if you want to know why your change is inappropriate. And text like "This page has been updated with all the relevant reference links" has no place in the article. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 18:40, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Attempting to reference a documentary on YouTube as a source for information about the song. The documentary is about this song, and clarifies something in the lyrics that pertinent, interesting, and rare knowledge, valuable to fans of the song.
Trying to delete the *'s that were blanking out Kevin Smith's exact quote about Clerks III financing at the end. Profanity in quotation form is not censored in any other good Wikipedia article.
The filter has no way to know that you are the same person as the user whose page you were trying to edit. In any case I have now deleted the user page. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 05:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
It's disallowing me to use a reference of some sort, but I am not using any reference abusively. Please fix the edit filter to something less than "disallow" to allow for editorial discretion. It seems unreasonable to disallow constructive edits in this way. Individual references should be open to discussion, but this filter is blocking some sizable fixes I have made to an article. Please take this down from "disallow" to something like "warn" and "tag" or some such. --Jayron3214:14, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Doing some additional research, it seems I've tripped filter 554, designed to block the use of unreliable music charts. The edit I am making has nothing to do with music charts. Can the filter be tweaked so as to allow my edit? Thanks! --Jayron3214:20, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
It can be clearly seen that this page is written by the Islamic State supporters. ISIS is a terrorist group and they have killed many people, and raped thousands of Yazidi and Christian (non Sunni) women. Therefore I tried to remove some of the parts of this page and show the real face of the ISIS. The description of the ISIS on Wikipedia must be changed as soon as possible. ISIS must be described as a terrorist group on Wikipedia.
Date and time
13:26, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
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Please discuss your changes on the article's talk page first. You are replacing sourced content with unsourced text. —Bruce1eetalk13:43, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
(I merged your two reports together, they both have the same cause.) These do look like false positives; what happened is that the paragraph you edited already looked suspicious to the filter. As it's written at the moment, the filter can't distinguish between things you added, and things that were there already.
According to the filter notes, attempting to take the old contents into account too caused too many false negatives, so I think we're probably just going to have to live with the occasional mistake in reporting like this. --ais523 10:48, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I want to alter the whole page as it is a combination of interview transcripts, an not really up to date, so I pasted Scott Vickers's bio into the field and it disallowed it. Please let me alter the whole page.
Don't sign your name in articles (you must have accidently hit the "Sign your posts" link). BTW "aging" is spelt correctly. —Bruce1eetalk06:29, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
reverting to originally created blank page—all subsequent edits have been meaningless gibberish, most likely vandalism, absolutely NO discussion of the attached article
I was trying to use a warning template to warn technopat not to impersonate admins, the same way as (s)he somehow used a similar warning on someone without getting it blocked. Why is there this double-standard?
I wanted to tell this user they had a nice username, and it wouldn't let me do that for some reason. I know it's not *constructive* exactly but that should be allowed.
My understanding is that there is no problem, and that within a given generation/socket (e.g., DDR3, DDR2, DDR, SDR, etc) the socket and the RAM sticks negotiate with each other to find an acceptable clockrate. according to synergy513 from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/531369/use-1066-ram-in-a-1333-slot/ , you can't put slow ram in a fast slot but "RAM is mostly compatible in the other direction (faster RAM to slower slot)." Make of all this what you will. 75.140.88.172 (talk) 05:38, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
I am Ana Pasti. I actaully want to deleted the page.
I have problems logging in my account. The system doesn't have any email associated with my user Ana pasti.
I am trying to add in information on the talk page on what my group and I would be adding into this page to further improve it for a university project. Examples of what we will be adding includes adding in a section on Higher Mother Tongue in Singapore, adding more information for the existing languages and a section on the controversies revolving language education in Singapore.
I was trying to clean up and add verifiable references to the current article. It was deleted before I could complete. The current references were to YouTube, MySpace, dattpiff.com etc. I have been adding more notable references amongst cleaning up the current verbiage.
Editing the phrase "male genitalia" to "penises": this is more accurate and specific, and does not presuppose that every person with a penis is a male and that every male has a penis.
Please forgive me if I'm being stupid, I am very new to wiki. I am trying to create a page in my sandbox for the artist Boris Chetkov. However I am still getting the "unconstructive edit" message every time I save. The page is in no way ready to publish so I don't understand why I am getting the 'unconstructive' message. (filter log)
Description
Boris Chetkov: adding links and references
Date and time
10:00, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
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my apologies, I have resolved the issue. Incorrect use of square brackets.
[[As I have said in my earlier attempts to edit my page, I am Richard Sinnott and my latest edit reflects my true present circumstances. I am not vandalising my page, I am updating it and do not wish user 78.150.203.244 to be believed over myself, especially as they are not identifiable by name. Thanks.]] (filter log)
The slogan for WPGU in 1993 was not "Either You Rock or You [Censored]". It was "Either You Rock or You Suck." When WPGU purchased bus boards on MTD, "Censored" stickers were eventually placed over the word "Suck". Frustrated listeners began peeling the stickers off the buses in protest.
Needing to upload final edit for pied honeyeater which included maps. All fine in the preview but issue saving (message similar to not appropriate edit)
The plot summary was badly worded in places, so I went through and reworded a lot of it, adding some details. When I tried to save it, it told me it would be unconstructive and wouldn't let me.
This is a page I created years ago. Due to privacy and safety issues, I need to delete it but do not remember the email or password. I can prove my identity, of course, and would like this page deleted altogether, ASAP.
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13:54, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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This appears to be a good-faith request, the userpage in question is old, and the user is inactive. Therefore I have blanked the page for you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
I was trying to revert changes and the page was flagged because there's a link to the Transamerica YouTube page. If that's a problem, it can be deleted but I don't see how this is unconstructive.
I tried to query being classed as a Troll for a polite comment, supported by independent evidence, raising genuine concerns for Wikipedia's reputation. I assume whoever reviews this report has access to the full text, which I will happily provide on request.
Date and time
08:48, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
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You did not make a query, you made a statement of your personal opinion as if it were a statement of fact, then attempted to support your assertion by linking to a public opinion poll. Looked like classic trolling to me. --Orange Mike | Talk21:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
The evidence demonstrates that, in everyday usage, "feminism" is not synonymous with "gender equality". That's not a matter of opinion (unless the meaning of words is to be determined by the elite for the benefit of the ignorant majority). Bob Hammersley (talk) 06:31, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
I was trying to create a page about my esoteric programming language "PZAB", loosely copying the information from it's entry on esolangs: esolangs.org/wiki/PZAB
I notice from the filter log that my example code triggered the "ASCII Art" filter. It isn't ASCII art, just examples of the language's obfuscated code.
Date and time
19:55, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is not for things that you and/or your friends made up. If you have invented something in school, in your university lab, your garage, or the pub, and it has not yet been featured in reliable sources (which most emphatically does not include wiki entries or webforums), please do not write about it in Wikipedia. Write about it on your own website or blog instead. --Orange Mike | Talk21:06, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
I was writing an article on the brand new 3 player version of Chess, called Ch3Xs. I belive this is the best version of 3 player chess yet, and that it deserves an article. I have just spent several hours writing the article, and don't want to lose anything. I own all the photos. Due to it being a brand new game, there are not many published articles yet, but I added reference links of what I could find. I hope I did not do anything wrong. Please help.
I was trying to add in more info on the receptions, including one youtube link to a podcast that got instantly flagged only for the fact that it was a youtube link.
Date and time
17:56, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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You have to be very careful about using YouTube links on Wikipedia; it's rare for them to meet the standard for reliable sources, unless they're basically just an official copy to YouTube by a television news organization or similarly reputable site. A podcast isn't going to count. --ais523 20:46, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Programming language, Brainfuck, was incorrectly named "brainfart". Attempted to correct, but assume that profanity filters prevented correction. The entry should also link to existing wikipedia page for Brainfuck - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck.
Date and time
15:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for your report (and attempted contribution). User:Pokajanje made the edit for you. In a situation like this one, where two unregistered users are changing a page back and forth and one of the edits contains profanity, it's normally a safe assumption that the version with profanity is the vandalised one, but not in this case; I can't blame the edit filter too much for making the wrong decision here. --ais523 12:35, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
I was trying to add new works by Keenan MacWilliam (me) there are some flaws in the Wikipedia page and updates that should be included. The main update is to her new web series. I tried to post the youtube link but wikipedia wouldn't let me.
Done removed the offending condition --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 15:18, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
