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False rate limit error using SUL3 to create certain accounts
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Be an account creator on enwiki (and therefore have the noratelimit right).
  • While logged in, attempt to create a particular account (but not most accounts).

What should have happened?:

Account created, or non-misleading error message provided.

What happens?:

A rate limit error message is displayed:

Screenshot 2025-11-06 220536.png (709×949 px, 152 KB)

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

I believe that this is a regression of T397244. (Unless I am misremembering something, the error messages were indeed made accurate before.)

X-Request-Id of an affected request: 53c6c90b-5268-401b-b09b-4601712b2135

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mdaniels5757 renamed this task from False rate limit warning using SUL3 on certain accounts to False rate limit error using SUL3 on certain accounts.Nov 7 2025, 3:19 AM
mdaniels5757 renamed this task from False rate limit error using SUL3 on certain accounts to False rate limit error using SUL3 to create certain accounts.Nov 7 2025, 3:50 AM

Yeah probably the same issue, but I don't think it was ever fixed.

I just went through some records, and I don't see the promised error message (T397244#11090876) in any logs I can see. So I now suspect (but can't tell, because all related code, along with the blacklist itself and the main Phabricator task, is private) that it was never implemented. If that's true, then this is indeed a duplicate of T397244. But I'll leave this open, because (since everything's private) I have no way to actually confirm that it's a duplicate.