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José Miguel mendez Romero
[edit]- Filter
- 1241 (hist · log)
- Log entry
- 44618698
- Affected user
- José Miguel mendez Romero (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page they were editing
- User talk:Jolielover (filter log)
- Description
- Reported by DatBot to AIV/TB2. Just seems like a standard mentorship question, albeit in Spanish.
- Reporting user
- ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me!
- Date and time
- 06:34, 10 July 2026 (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. (automated comment) — MajavahBot (talk · contributions) 06:34, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
Checking with the edit filter managers to see if changes need to be made. We probably should warn users who try to submit non-English text in any namespace, but absent some specific reason that I'm not thinking of I don't see why this should be disallowed outright. – Taking Out The Trash (talk) 15:27, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ignoring the private filter part of this it seems to be working normally. 1233 is designed to catch
Long string of characters with no punctuation or markup
, and things like 44618742 are indeed what the filter is trying to catch. If an EFM or EFH says the private filter is working correctly, this can probably be closed. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 19:40, 14 July 2026 (UTC)- Except that it's not a "long string of characters containing no punctuation or markup"... it's a message written in Spanish. The filter should only be looking for and catching long strings of random characters containing no punctuation or markup (i.e. gibberish). Good-faith but non-English text != gibberish. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 23:58, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
- Based on a quick skim of the filter I see nothing to determine whether the text is English or not; if I wrote a long run-on sentence in English, it would likely be a filter hit too. Rusty Cat (mobile) (talk) 01:35, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- ...Which is not a good thing. If we want to have a filter to detect run-on sentences, that should be a separate filter and should be warn-only. A disallow filter like this one should only be looking for strings of random characters that don't actually make any comprehensible words. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
- I think the issue here is it's hard to distinguish nonsense from valid words/sentences; factor in other languages, and it's impossible. Rusty Cat (mobile) (talk) 03:19, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- ...Which is not a good thing. If we want to have a filter to detect run-on sentences, that should be a separate filter and should be warn-only. A disallow filter like this one should only be looking for strings of random characters that don't actually make any comprehensible words. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
- Based on a quick skim of the filter I see nothing to determine whether the text is English or not; if I wrote a long run-on sentence in English, it would likely be a filter hit too. Rusty Cat (mobile) (talk) 01:35, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- Except that it's not a "long string of characters containing no punctuation or markup"... it's a message written in Spanish. The filter should only be looking for and catching long strings of random characters containing no punctuation or markup (i.e. gibberish). Good-faith but non-English text != gibberish. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 23:58, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ignoring the private filter part of this it seems to be working normally. 1233 is designed to catch
Pinned – This thread has been pinned and will not be archived until this template has been removed. – Taking Out The Trash (talk) 15:27, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- I'll take a look at this, but I'm not confident it needs to be revised. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 14:58, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Jack.riley03
[edit]- Username
- Jack.riley03 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- User:Jack.riley03/Userboxes (filter log) (user filter log)
- Description
- Hello, im wanting to create a subpage for my userbox's. It is not allowing me to publish the page...
- Date and time
- 00:24, 1 August 2026 (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. – – LuniZunie(talk) 02:56, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Done – The edit for this report has been implemented here, but no changes to the filter were made. Nobody (talk) 06:28, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
~2026-42347-10
[edit]- Username
- ~2026-42347-10 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- List of people from Wollongong (filter log) (user filter log)
- Description
- Date and time
- 03:22, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comments
Add boxer Shannan Taylor to notable sportspeople from Wollongong
- Done – The edit for this report has been implemented, but no changes to the filter were made. – Rusty Cat (mobile) (talk) 03:47, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
~2026-42582-12
[edit]- Username
- ~2026-42582-12 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 03:33, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comments
No filters triggered recently. – Rusty Cat (mobile) (talk) 03:47, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
~2026-42494-66
[edit]- Username
- ~2026-42494-66 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- Page not specified
- Description
- Date and time
- 08:07, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comments
- No filters triggered recently. Nobody (talk) 08:10, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
~2026-42575-59
[edit]- Username
- ~2026-42575-59 (talk · contribs) (filter log)
- Page you were editing
- RYB color model (filter log) (user filter log)
- Description
- i was adding the correct info
- Date and time
- 08:47, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comments