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Filter

391 (hist · log)

Log entry

42832260

Affected user

~2025-36701-02 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page they were editing

Dell Palomata (filter log)

Description

A change was made outside of the height/weight. The edit looks constructive, but was incorrectly tagged as changing the height or weight. Supposedly there is already a check for a reference that happens to be on the same line, but it doesn't seem to be working in this instance.

Reporting user

- Umby 🌕🐶 (talk)

Date and time

00:24, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Edit was not disallowed though a change to the filter may be needed. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 00:55, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Pinned – This thread has been pinned and will not be archived until this template has been removed. – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 00:55, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Obviously, this is a false positive, but is there actually a way to prevent the filter from triggering when the infobox properties are on the same line? I can't say I know of one, but I am frankly still a little rusty. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 02:25, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Illusion Flame: Perhaps we want to check for a pipe after the height/weight? The regex would need to consider the usage of {{convert}} (see Template:Infobox sportsperson#height) though, so it can quickly get complicated ~ Rusty ^meow ~ 00:29, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Ajsanzacr83 (talk) 14:51, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

Ajsanzacr83 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Special:MovePage (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Date and time

14:51, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done though a change to the filter may be needed. Your article was also previously deleted in draftspace. That said, draftspace moves shouldn't be blocked by this filter. – HurricaneZeta^C 14:53, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

(pin removed) – HurricaneZeta^C 14:53, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I may be missing something, but it appears that the attempted move was to the project space, which is intended. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 15:02, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

This move is to draftspace HurricaneZeta^C 15:12, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I missed that one, thank you, - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 15:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

@HurricaneZeta: I think this is probably one of those that is a true positive. Moving to Draft:Ajsanzacr83 is certainly disruptive and unnecessary, and the page title would most likely be Draft:(whatever their draft is about), rather than their username. No filter change applied. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 23:21, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, true. Though in some cases moves to draftspace are legitimate and also encouraged by the AfC template. HurricaneZeta^C 23:34, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Filter

735 (hist · log)

Log entry

42980979

Affected user

~2025-40550-70 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page they were editing

Birmingham Phoenix (filter log)

Description

This edit was tagged as "possible vandalism", even though it doesn't look like it is. It just appears to be changing a comma into a <br/> markup. This also happened with the London Spirit and Manchester Originals pages, with the log IDs being 42980949, and 42980952, albiet with the former having more changes. Nonetheless, all of these edits seem constructive.

Reporting user

NotJamestack (✉️|📝)

Date and time

02:34, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Username

Gengar74 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Red Bull BC One (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

I was not attempting to make unconstructive edits, I was adding judge votes like I was with every other year and the filter lets me do it for every other year besides 2018 for some reason

Date and time

04:40, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 21:18, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

~2025-41235-88 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Talk:Murder of Nguyễn Xuân Đạt (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager. – I am not LTA 1307. I was attempting to oppose a DYK nomination for having egregious amounts of WP:UGC and clearly failing a DYK's basic referencing criteria but I'll assume that the only reason for this is that the last two digits of my temporary account are racist. I can't see how else I might have triggered the abuse filter unless there was an LTA that opposed DYK/GA/FA nominations or was of that similar sort of inclination.

Date and time

14:16, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager. Annh07 (talk) 14:31, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

I'll look at this. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:17, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Not done – The filter is working properly. @~2025-41235-88: It's not your username. Please make your comment without the .tv part of the domain name. Also please consider creating an account. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:54, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

~2025-41212-92 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Rush Hour (1998 film) (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Wikipedia is WP:NOTCENSORED

Date and time

14:42, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done – The filter is working properly. Yes, WP:NOTCENSORED, but is the change really necessary? – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 17:02, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

~2025-41235-88 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

User talk:Mfield (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

False positive again, this time relating to a userblock direction given being construed as a personal attack on a user talk page (the filter name reveals the trigger word being "Nazi").
Private – One or more of the filters triggered are private, and the request needs to be evaluated by an edit filter helper or manager.

Date and time

15:00, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. – - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 15:44, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

~2025-41052-45 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Talk:Evergreen, Alabama (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

If someone wanted to redirect a page for a valid reason, it would be reasonable to let them merge a page into another page.

Date and time

16:05, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done – The filter is working properly. That page is for talking about the disambiguation between the 2 evergreens. – MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 16:10, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Proof – Special:Diff/1327875162 – ~2025-41052-45 (talk) 18:07, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Thats a redirect you just made? MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 18:09, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes ~2025-41052-45 (talk) 18:09, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

@~2025-41052-45 If you think something is the WP:PRIMARY topic, you should provide evidence and make a WP:RM. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 19:03, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

Mmv01 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Special:MovePage (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

I’m trying to move my wiki edit live

Date and time

17:05, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done – The filter is working properly. Please submit to WP:AfC, it's likely they will move it to draftspace for you, and only move it to mainspace if it gets accepted. – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 17:06, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

~2025-41156-63 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Christchurch mosque shootings (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Was trying to make an edit further elaborating on the definition of shitposting. In the Manifesto subsection of the Preparation section, in the third paragraph, for the first sentence definion, requested to change “trolling designed to engender conflict between certain groups and people” and replace it with “trolling designed to derail conversation in an ironic matter or elicit a response from people not getting the joke”. The previous definition does not clearly define shitposting as it is not always about igniting conflicts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190315173610/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/the-shooters-manifesto-was-designed-to-troll/585058/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/a-mass-murder-for-the-age-of-shposting/

Date and time

19:09, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. I added your request to the talk page, but I'm not going to implement your request as I don't believe it's an improvement. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:50, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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Username

~2025-41100-17 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Page not specified

Description

Date and time

20:54, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

No filters triggered recently. – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 20:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

Acnurrahmat74 (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

User:Thumperward (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

Date and time

20:56, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments

Not done – The filter is working properly. – --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 20:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Username

AlterSkye (talk · contribs) (filter log)

Page you were editing

Judy Blume (filter log) (user filter log)

Description

was trying to rewrite it.

Date and time

22:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments