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See discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/796903845#Can_someone_more_competent_than_me_take_a_look User:SorinaPopescu tripped [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/279 | filter 279 ]] a dozen times, but they were for the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Mississippi_State_University/General_Biochemistry_(Fall_2017)&diff=prev&oldid=796761664 | same edit ]], and it **wasn't their edit**. The edit was actually made by User:Dilloncoulter whose [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Dilloncoulter | filter log ]] is empty. If you look at the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/19130673 | details ]] of one of the log entries, things are way off. The "Changes made in edit" are completely different than the linked diff, and the timestamp doesn't match any edit made by the aforementioned users (see their contribs: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SorinaPopescu | 1 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Dilloncoulter | 2 ]]), or any edit made by //anyone// to the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Mississippi_State_University/General_Biochemistry_(Fall_2017) | relevant page ]]. Something is very wrong! Filter 279, by the way, is tripped when a user makes a series of edits that failed to save to the same page (checking if their username is not in `article_recent_contributors`), but here both SorinaPopescu and Dilloncoulter's edits //did// save. Not only that, the filter did not tag the edits as it normally would -- and good that it didn't, because it was a false positive :) To recount, we have a number of issues: * [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/279 | Filter 279 ]] is being tripped more times than there were actual actions * The edit the logs point to was made by a different user, different timestamp, and diff doesn't match the actual edit * The filter was tripped when no previous edits by the user were disallowed, which is not how the filter is supposed to work * The edit wasn't tagged as the filter would normally do (probably because of one of the above points) ---- The first thing that comes to mind is T168736 which I filed back in June. Whether or not the filter was malfunctioning there I'm not sure, but similarly the logs reported wrong values. I have a strong suspicion these issues are related. I dug deeper into filter 279, I can't find any entries that are as out place as the above. However [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/19127087 | Special:AbuseLog/19127087 ]] shouldn't have tripped the filter, since that IP had not made previous edit that were disallowed via AbuseFilter. This may or may not be related, but anyway it also appears to be a bug.

See discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/796903845#Can_someone_more_competent_than_me_take_a_look User:SorinaPopescu tripped [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/279 | filter 279 ]] a [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=SorinaPopescu | dozen times ]], but they were for the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Mississippi_State_University/General_Biochemistry_(Fall_2017)&diff=prev&oldid=796761664 | same edit ]], and it **wasn't their edit**. The edit was actually made by User:Dilloncoulter whose [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Dilloncoulter | filter log ]] is empty. If you look at the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/19130673 | details ]] of one of the log entries, things are way off. The "Changes made in edit" are completely different than the linked diff, and the timestamp doesn't match any edit made by the aforementioned users (see their contribs: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SorinaPopescu | 1 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Dilloncoulter | 2 ]]), or any edit made by //anyone// to the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Mississippi_State_University/General_Biochemistry_(Fall_2017) | relevant page ]]. Something is very wrong! Filter 279, by the way, is tripped when a user makes a series of edits that failed to save to the same page (checking if their username is not in `article_recent_contributors`), but here both SorinaPopescu and Dilloncoulter's edits //did// save. Not only that, the filter did not tag the edits as it normally would -- and good that it didn't, because it was a false positive :) To recount, we have a number of issues: * [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/279 | Filter 279 ]] is being tripped more times than there were actual actions * The edit the logs point to was made by a different user, different timestamp, and diff doesn't match the actual edit * The filter was tripped when no previous edits by the user were disallowed, which is not how the filter is supposed to work * The edit wasn't tagged as the filter would normally do (probably because of one of the above points) ---- The first thing that comes to mind is T168736 which I filed back in June. Whether or not the filter was malfunctioning there I'm not sure, but similarly the logs reported wrong values. I have a strong suspicion these issues are related. I dug deeper into filter 279, I can't find any entries that are as out place as the above. However [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/19127087 | Special:AbuseLog/19127087 ]] shouldn't have tripped the filter, since that IP had not made previous edit that were disallowed via AbuseFilter. This may or may not be related, but anyway it also appears to be a bug.