Report:Spam filter problems

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RPG Wikia
I need to report two noticed false positives with the spam filter whilst trying to edit RPG.wikia. It was catching the characters "can ac" and "go to". This is problematic when you want to use phrases like "X rifle can accept Y sized magazines" and "when X go to war with Y".

ShadowDragon8685 00:16, June 17, 2010 (UTC)

/m/
I wish to report a false positive with the Spam filter, but that page is locked to editing. Seems counterproductive. Anyway, I have no idea why I cannot create an article on a wiki I'm an admin on (Cyber Nations Wiki) with the title /m/. The goal is to redirect it to a page entitled \m/ (disambiguation), since most browsers will change a backslash to a forward slash if entered into the address bar. But apparently, I can't do that, since the title /m/ is spam-blacklisted. Any way around this? Cheers, ~ Michael von Preußen (voicemail)
 * cant make pages that end in "/". Is a protection against "stupid" spambots that make malformed pagenames, like "Forum:index/" --Uberfuzzy 03:13, June 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Oh well, thanks for the response :) ~ Michael von Preußen (voicemail)

user:
Excuse me, but I can't edit my own Userpage or any Userpage, because the spam filter has apparently "blacklisted" the pagename/link "user" or whatever. This is obviously incorrect, so someone needs to fix this.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round ~ 16:04, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Same for me on Runescape Wikia "user:" is the string I think. Rich Farmbrough, 16:05 9 June 2010 (GMT).
 * Seems to have been a glitch with the blacklist for titles, should be fixed within 10 minutes (cache) --Charitwo (talk) 16:07, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Good, because no-one on the SFW can edit their userpages.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round ~ 16:11, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

User Page
Hey, this is Nitrous X from the Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki. This spam filter won't let me edit my own userpage! So it directed me here. Could you help me out? --Nitrous X 16:09, June 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * See above. --Charitwo (talk) 16:18, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Spam Filter Problems
The site I work on (Bleach Fan Fiction Wikia) is having problems with the spam filter. Pages are having problems being edited because there is dialogue on them because its an Rp site. The Wikia can't function if we aren't able to use dialogue. Hopefully someone can fix this? --Takeshi (Talk here) 18:33, June 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * This is likely a glitch and has been corrected, if not please submit a screenshot or a paste of the error you receive. --Charitwo (talk) 20:10, June 16, 2010 (UTC)

Wikiality: Spam Filter
Why is http://wikiality.wikia.com/ considers links to http://thinkprogress.org/ to be spam? --Mutopis 00:07, June 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * (this is the link that i tried to used and it blocked it http://thinkprogress.org /2010/06/03/bp-halliburton-buy-)(had to break it or wont post) --Mutopis 00:11, June 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Unblocked.-- Austin (Talk) 21:26, June 27, 2010 (UTC)

Not a spam report, but a report of a false positive with the spam filter
Hi there, sorry this is so long, but I tried to post to Spam filter to report spam filter problems but it told me that I had to request editing here, so I'll just post my problem here instead and hopefully the people who work on the filter will see this message. I was editing the firebat page over at StarCraft Wiki, where I am a frequent and valued contributor, and the page cannot be edited unless a link that is already in the page is removed, because the spam filter mistakenly thinks that any article containing " http://www. blizzpla " is spam. A link using that appears in the text of the article already, and has been there for some time, but now the article cannot be edited at all unless that is removed. However, that link is used to document an interview of Dustin Browder, the lead designer of the game StarCraft II, done by that website blizzplanet.com that supposedly is "spam" but actually is necessary to document things on our wiki about the StarCraft game franchise. Your spam filter needs to first of all not have a filter to ban that website, and secondly you need to allow people to make edits to articles if the parts they are changing do not have anything the spam filter considers spam. I was trying to edit an entirely different part of the firebat article that had nothing to do with this banned url, but the spam filter rejects all edits because of the text the article already contains. This is obviously not the way a spam filter should work. It should block spam from being done, but should not classify any edit to a given article as spam just because it retroactively decided some of the article's pre-existing content is now considered spam. I think this is a bug in your spam filter bot, and blizzplanet.com is a legitimate website that has interviews of Blizzard employees such as Mr. Browder cited as sources by several articles in StarCraft Wiki. Please solve this problem, as it is having a detrimental effect on the StarCraft Wiki, making it so that the firebat article and probably others cannot be edited unless reference links in them that actually document the content to make it verifiable are removed. Thank you very much for reading this, and as this is the first problem I have ever encountered with your spam filter, I don't feel the need to request editing rights, as long as posting problems to you this way actually gets the job done. I imagine the reason that blizzplanet was blocked is probably another wiki documenting another Blizzard game franchise, most likely WoWWiki as it is the biggest wiki for a Blizzard game, decided that they consider that website to be spam, so perhaps you could allow them to block blizzplanet as spam on wikis that don't want it while not making the block for it global for all of Wikia. And please solve the bug in your spam filter that doesn't allow edits to articles already containing pre-existing "spam" that it detects, and have it look at the changes from the previous edit instead. This could be implemented very simply, by checking the current version of the page for spam, and seeing if it fails the same spam filter test as the edited version someone is trying to update the page to. It is not nice to block anyone from editing an article unless something already in it that they didn't even put there is removed. Thanks again for reading this, sorry if my message was a bit long but I was just trying to explain things in detail for you to understand better, and have a nice day! --The Overmind 05:09, June 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * You should request an admin at that wiki add the offending URL to MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. That should allow it to be posted on that wiki. ~ Michael von Preußen (voicemail)
 * There was a lot of trouble, mainly due to not having received this message by email, but also because no one explained how the whitelist actually worked. (I added the link to the whitelist, to no avail.) So, I'm adding the syntax here, perhaps this can be spread to various help pages so other administrators don't run into this problem:

# NotASpamURL1.com NotASpamURL2.com MoreNonSpamURLs.com #
 * 1) External URLs matching this list will *not* be blocked even if they would
 * 2) have been blocked by blacklist entries.
 * 3) Syntax is as follows:
 * 4)   * Everything from a "#" character to the end of the line is a comment
 * 5)   * Every non-blank line is a regex fragment which will only match hosts inside URLs
 * 1)   * Every non-blank line is a regex fragment which will only match hosts inside URLs

Be sure to open the edit window and copy/paste what is there, since there's supposed to be multiple lines instead of one huge block of text. Also leave the spaces before the first and last #; apparently that is key. PSH aka Kimera 757 (talk) contribs) 23:24, June 18, 2010 (UTC)

Forever Knight Wiki
I can't save edits made to our webpage for Dorothy Elggren. Apparently something is triggering the spam filter. -- Greer Watson 03:34, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Please, provide the message you get when trying to save your edits. 14:22, June 30, 2010 (UTC)

Wrongly triggering spam filter
This page 'bradfitzpatrick. com/weblog/395/free-beer-mug-icons-for-the-buy-me-a-beer-plugin' is triggering the spam filter. I guess it's the combination of "free", "beer" and "buy" but I don't know. Duskey 04:05, June 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fixed.-- Austin (Talk) 21:26, June 27, 2010 (UTC)

CM-Wiki
On the Critical Mass wiki this links trigger the filter:
 * www.myspace.com/criticalmassbatonrouge
 * www.criticalmassbatonrouge.org

Is there a way to remove them from the blacklist? Thanks --Diamant 20:36, June 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed now.-- Austin (Talk) 08:57, June 27, 2010 (UTC)

Far Cry wiki
There is some page that is written in Cyrillic and I can't edit. Its deletion would be appreciated. Thanks, CoD addict 06:51, June 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Gone.-- Austin (Talk) 08:57, June 27, 2010 (UTC)

False positive on Phineas and Ferb Wiki
I need to update the main show description page and the spam filter is triggering on the links in the External links section. Each one is a valid link to a Disney website. Please give the spam filter a nudge so it will release that page.

Thanks. - RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 14:01, June 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * What is the exact phrase that the filter says is blocked?-- Austin (Talk) 08:50, June 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. 
 * This is probably caused by a blacklisted link or pagename. 


 * The following link, text or pagename is what triggered our spam filter:  http://tv.disney.go.com/ disneychannel/ phineasandferb/ games/ cowabungacandac  


 * If you think this is wrong, please contact us here. 


 * The actual link is  disneychannel/ phineasandferb/ games/ cowabungacandace/ index.html Cowabunga Candace </tt>.


 * If that is removed, the spam filter triggers on the Candace's Quiz link, which is  disneychannel/ phineasandferb/ games/ quiz_candace/ Candace's Quiz </tt>.


 * (Spaces have been added after each / in all 3 links above because the spam filter is triggering here on them and preventing me from saving my edit.)
 * I have removed the two links for now. If you need to view the page with those links in it, go to the June 4th revision. - RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 01:15, June 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed now :)-- Austin (Talk) 03:57, June 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Just tested it and it is. Thanks for fixing that so quickly. - RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 13:39, June 28, 2010 (UTC)

"Welcome to" error
Two of the episodes in our fictional roleplay on the Total Drama Wiki start with the name "Welcome to". We can't save this in the elimination table on the roleplay's forum, however. --<font color="#ff0000">TDIFan13 (<font color="#4b0082">My Talk and<font color="#4b0082">My Contributions! ) 04:01, June 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * What is the error message you get when you attempt to save? Grunny  ( talk ) 06:40, June 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * "The following link, text or pagename is what triggered our spam filter: http://totaldramaroleplay.wikia.com/wiki/ Welcome_to - that, except without the nowiki. --<font color="#ff0000">TDIFan13 (<font color="#4b0082">My Talk and<font color="#4b0082">My Contributions! ) 02:16, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Unblocked.-- Austin (Talk) 05:21, June 30, 2010 (UTC)

UTAU Wiki incorrect spam filter
For some reason, whenever I try to add the following domain "Terraloid.tk" to my own UTAU's page as their homepage, it is reported as triggering the spam filter and it won't be saved. Anyway, could you edit this please? Thanks, it'd be appreciated. --<font color="#ff0000">Jadii 18:25, July 03, 2010 (GMT)
 * I don't see any matches with that phrase. It's not filtered. 22:34, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * When you put it in as a link (e.g. http:// terraloid.tk/ (I have to put a space or it will trigger the spam filter)) it tells me it is filtered and won't allow me to save. Instead, it directed me to here to report an incorrect filter problem. This is the error I get:
 * When you put it in as a link (e.g. http:// terraloid.tk/ (I have to put a space or it will trigger the spam filter)) it tells me it is filtered and won't allow me to save. Instead, it directed me to here to report an incorrect filter problem. This is the error I get:

"The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a blacklisted link or pagename.

The following link, text or pagename is what triggered our spam filter: http:// terraloid.tk/

If you think this is wrong, please contact us here. Return to Spam filter problems."

--<font color="#ff0000">Jadii 00 :07, July 04, 2010 (GMT)

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