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Seriously? "common security guidelines recommend hiding the usernames of privileged accounts" and " MediaWiki truly can’t rely on any 'security through obscurity' tactics"? As our article on Security through obscurity article makes clear, "Security through obscurity is discouraged and not recommended by standards bodies". All competent security consultants follow Kerckhoffs's principle and make everything except the system keys -- system architecture, source code, the usernames of privileged accounts, etc. -- completely open. The system needs to be secure against insiders who know the usernames of privileged accounts as well as from external threats. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:29, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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• "10 having made edits within the previous 12 months". 10 out of 3?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed Having made ten, thanks. ResMar 21:14, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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• I noticed after I added <nowiki> ... </nowiki> in an article there was a tag saying so. But I couldn't achieve what I was trying to do without it. I wanted an actual asterisk, not a square like here, to use in the way an asterisk is normally used.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:46, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

If you mean that an edit filter item was attached to it, I believe that is because VisualEditor has had a problem with nowiki spam, and to help monitor progress on the problem an edit filter was applied to it. ResMar 21:14, 24 April 2015 (UTC)