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Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports

Thanks for your note added to the reversion. What filter are you referring to? The user added himself to the page with no other account edits.

Are you sure you've commented correctly? CMacMillan (talk) 01:03, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@CMacMillan: Honestly sorry I made this response so big, I'm on little sleep and can't figure out how to make it short.

I just meant that usually reports aren't reverted because the report is bad, but because the person has an offensive name or is obviously trolling or the "report" is/includes vandalism or something else like that - there have been many reports before, specially specific to the notable people disruption filter, where the person was allowed to make the report and have it stay there, and were eventually told that the filter is there to prevent the exact type of thing they did.

Here's an example: diff:1173630593 (as you can see there's even a template for it).

Granted it's not usually an obvious COI edit as well.

Honestly I reverted it because I thought you made a mistake (that you meant to revert another report that was vandalism - or it was a vandalism that I didn't see) - but I also think that it's more to the intent of the board that users be able to report what they might think is a false positive (even when it isn't) and have it stay there until someone tells them that it's not a false positive, that they can't do what they did.

– 2804:F14:80D6:E401:8446:A38:963E:E7ED (talk) 01:21, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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