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trev:
The introduction to the code for this regex example kept being caught by the Wiki spam cop. I eventually tracked it down to any mention of "phone" number or "telephone" number which I had to change to "contact" number before it was happy.

Is this prohibition necessary?

Kays:

--- Quote from: trev on June 15, 2021, 01:20:28 pm ---[…] I eventually tracked it down to any mention of "phone" number or "telephone" number which I had to change to "contact" number before it was happy. […]
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You’ve had this problem already over a year ago.

--- Quote from: Kays on May 20, 2020, 05:35:53 am ---[…] Phone numbers are evil. […]
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I don’t think writing “phone” (or “loan”) should trigger the spam filter. There are better mechanisms to detect malicious edits (take a look at Wikipedia), yet installing/configuring/maintaining them might not be as easy as a mere blacklist may be.

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