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204.100.235.104

Username: 204.100.235.104 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: How To Assemble A Desktop PC/Choosing the parts (filter log)
Description: Adding updated information about modems
Date and time: 22:01, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
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AidenPrydeJF

Username: AidenPrydeJF (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Haskell/Getting set up (filter log)
Description: Eliminated verbosity. Added links to Haskell Discord and IRC for Haskell environment installation assistance
Date and time: 17:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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Jacobdgm

Username: Jacobdgm (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[User:Jacobdgm]] (filter log)
Description: Trying to add a link to my Wikipedia User page. I also tried to add a link to my personal website, similar to the link present on my Wikipedia User page, but even when I removed it, I continued to get the error message upon clicking "Publish".

(Notably, I'm not even able to add a link to my Wikipedia User page [or, for that matter, my Wikibooks User page via URL] here. It's the same username, just in the Wikipedia domain.)

I'm guessing the main reason I'm getting an error message is because my Wikibooks account wasn't activated until a few minutes ago, when I made an edit to a recipe. But it does seem a bit silly that I should not be able to link to other Wikipedia/Wikibooks pages...

Date and time: 17:01, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
Comments: Done and a change to the filter may be needed. The problem here is that you wrote the link to Wikipedia as https://..., which falls under the regular expression for external links. I will look into the possibility of exempting links to Wikimedia projects from the filter. – JJP_{Mas_ter} (she/they) 17:49, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We would rather prefer not using bare links and rather use relative URLs (i.e, wikipedia:) Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 02:30, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do think we should allow bare links, since those are often used when linking to diffs or log entries (including on the local project). JJP_{Mas_ter} (she/they) 02:34, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK fair but that's not usually the case from my experience. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 03:02, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are there not ways to link to these without bare linking? Like Special:Diff? It seems like unambiguously valid cases of bare-linking are rare, and discouraging bare-linking seems like a useful way to help reduce spamming. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 16:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those options do exist, however it took me quite a while to learn about them when I was new to the Wikimedia movement, and new users are precisely those users to whom this filter applies. Equally, users might not be aware of interwiki links (example), or the [{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} edit] trick to link to a page's edit box (generally, only relatively advanced MediaWiki users are familiar with that one). Also, I find it hard to understand how exactly you could spam by linking to a Wikimedia project. Most spammers that we attempt to catch with this filter are attempting to use Wikimedia for search engine optimization purposes, and linking to other Wikimedia projects seems like a very poor way of doing that. JJP_{Mas_ter} (she/they) 17:05, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1.46.150.177

Username: 1.46.150.177 (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations (filter log)
Description: I did not attempt to make this edit, but I found it while patrolling Special:AbuseLog, and the "Repeated vandalism attempts" filter should not have applied. The user previously made two legitimate edits that were not caught by the filter a minute prior, but the RVA filter disallowed it.
Date and time: 00:30, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
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Backofficeaccountant

Username: Backofficeaccountant (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count) (filter log)
Page you were editing: [[]] (filter log)
Description: i want a edit a external link on my main page as a reference . please allow my page to do it it is necessary because of copyrights.

Date and time: 11:25, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
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i want a edit a external link on my main page as a  reference . please allow my page to do it it is necessary because of copyrights.

You are trying to spam a link to your website, which isn't allowed. And now you are blocked, goodbye. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 09:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]