Report:Spam filter problems

Use this page to report possible false positives for the spam filter.

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Reports
spam spam filters vandalism wikis

Bug Encountered

I got this error message like the others users on w:c:zh.pad. We cannot edit ANY pages or leave messages on Wall. I suspect the problem is about the foreign letters (characters) except English ones. Hopefully Wikia could fix this problem ASAP.

Can you check this again and see if this issue is fixed now? Rappy 21:33, May 27, 2013 (UTC)

Blocks the adding of scripts

Today I created a script, while uploading it to the developer wiki it was blocked by the spam filter due to the way it appends the button.

$('#WikiHeader').append('<a id="Temp" class="wikia-button" onclick="this.innerHTML = \'Added\'; addTemplates();">Unsigned</a>')

The script itself automatically adds the unsigned template to the last message on a page.

Template:RShining-Armor ^talk  16:52, May 28, 2013 (UTC)

We can edit this in if needed - can you put it in pastebin and link us? -- RansomTime 17:31, May 28, 2013 (UTC)

http://pastebin.com/aRHxh4sF

Template:RShining-Armor ^talk  13:08, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, where do you exactly want this? -- RansomTime 13:11, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Checkuser-log-ipedits

Any edits to MediaWiki:Checkuser-log-ipedits appear to be blocked because the spam filter is picking up on the link, even though it's a link to a wikia page. It also appears that formatting the link as wikitext doesn't work. Is there a way to get around this? Suppa chuppa (talk) 07:06, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Update: While this specific problem has been fixed by having a VSTF member perform the edit for me, the larger problem remains. First that the spam filter picks up on a MediaWiki edit isn't very reassuring. Secondly, it seems that all <a> tags blocked. Since mediawiki doesn't use this syntax for linking, I feel like the tag has limited valid use. However, the fact that it would block regardless of the target seems to be bad practice. At least links that stay within wikia or even the same individual wiki shouldn't be considered as spam in my opinion. Suppa chuppa (talk) 05:04, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

Spam filter

I'm on the idea wiki and whenever I try to publish something it says I can't because the spam filter will not let me.

<a href=http://keepvid.en.softonic.com/ >keepvid</a> —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheIronLantern (talk • contribs)

Seems to block all <a> tags. You don't need the tags with wiki syntax. Suppa chuppa (talk) 17:37, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

Anchor tags are not supported by MediaWiki, please use wikitext.TK-999 (talk) 19:03, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

Facebook Badge Problem

I can't put my facebook badge due to this filter....

What is the error that you see? As per the top of this page, post all of the relevant information please. -- sulfur (talk) 18:29, June 2, 2013 (UTC)