Paste Check not appearing if choosing browser's "paste and match style" option
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	ppelberg
	Sep 22 2025, 10:47 PM

Description

Behavior

Meta

Browser: Chrome
Platform: Desktop

Steps

Visit https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/w/index.php?title=Cats&veaction=edit&ecenable=2
Copy a minimum of ≥50 characters of text from a source that is NOT from Google Docs, Libre Office, Microsoft Word,
Paste the text you copied in "2." into the editing session you opened in "1." using the browser's "Paste and Match Style" option

✅ Expected

Verify Paste Check appears

❗️ Actual

Paste Check does NOT appear

Done

"Expected" behavior is implemented and/or reason why it is not feasible is documented

Thank you to @Johannnes89 for making the Editing Team aware of this issue here,

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences
In Progress	nayoub	T359107 [EPIC] Paste Check: Prompt people pasting text to consider risk of copyright violation
Open	None	T405297 Paste Check not appearing if choosing browser's "paste and match style" option

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ppelberg created this task.Sep 22 2025, 10:47 PM

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ppelberg added a parent task: T399669: [WE 1.1.1] Run an A/B test to evaluate impact of Paste Check.Sep 22 2025, 10:47 PM

Makes sense -- it's pasted as complete plain text, which we recognize and don't show paste check for. (On the logic that this is how it appears for people who go write something in a regular text editor.)

In T405297#11203888, @DLynch wrote:

Makes sense -- it's pasted as complete plain text, which we recognize and don't show paste check for. (On the logic that this is how it appears for people who go write something in a regular text editor.)

Understood.

Per what we discussed offline today, we'll consider revising this logic if/when we come to find – via T400098 – Paste Check is activating in a relatively small proportion of edit sessions.

ppelberg edited parent tasks, added: T359107: [EPIC] Paste Check: Prompt people pasting text to consider risk of copyright violation; removed: T399669: [WE 1.1.1] Run an A/B test to evaluate impact of Paste Check.Sep 29 2025, 10:02 PM

ppelberg removed a project: Editing-team (Kanban Board).Nov 8 2025, 12:04 AM

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