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Thank you for getting that going. I was still poking around trying to figure out how to do one. —The preceding comment was added by Ground Zero (talk • contribs) 00:55, July 6, 2024
 * no worries – I will admit it's not as easy as creating a new thread on or COM:ANU (the instructions on both pages are far clearer than what we have here), but at least we've kicked the convo going. --  SHB2000  (t &#124; c &#124; m) 01:31, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

False positives?
Please check these yesterday edits and apologise if that seems warranted. It seems there was a careless edit of filter 46 back in April. The edits by this user were also caught by m:Special:AbuseFilter/344, but I don't see why (I checked one of the edits, not the latter filter, which is quite complex). –LPfi (talk) 10:51, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I left them a short note (it seems you can't get it to filter "fag" on its own). Regarding filter 344, it is primarily a tracking filter aimed to catch the edits of a certain pesky LTA (which makes it easier for x-wiki patrollers). -- SHB2000  (t &#124; c &#124; m) 11:02, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. See my last change of the filter. –LPfi (talk) 11:24, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ...and thank you for picking that up – that was fully my oversight and I do take full responsibility for that. In hindsight, I know a lot more about abuse filters now then I did back in April. -- SHB2000  (t &#124; c &#124; m) 11:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * We have few admins who really know the ins and outs of the syntax, so we mostly have to live with it, but it may be worthwhile to call attention to any changes, so that the few of us do check them (I did a bit of w:Perl programming once). –LPfi (talk) 11:37, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Agreed – I should try to learn proper regex sometime sooner or later. -- SHB2000  (t &#124; c &#124; m) 11:46, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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Please look that up. It's nothing to do with Jell-O! Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:43, 14 July 2024 (UTC)


 * See Jollof rice or just do a web search. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:44, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I see – guess we learn something new every day. -- SHB2000  (t &#124; c &#124; m) 04:26, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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