Forum:Spam protection blocking legitimate (and desireable) edit

Hey guys,

I was trying to fix a small problem with one of our templates, and the spam protection was not allowing me to. The text that actually hit the filter was not even text that I was editing, but instead was already on that page pre-wikia.

Here is a screenshot of the changes I made:

http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Spamfilter1.jpg

and here is a screenshot of the spam filter message:

http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Spamfilter2.jpg

We are using transclusion to improve performance of the templates (similar to many Wikipedia templates), and the text that was blocked was part of the transclusion code that also allows us to transclude some pages as simpler lists.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not prepared to re-write all of our content pages and templates to work around the spam filter, and I think that renaming the page will require significant changes to our templates.

Could you let me know what my options are?

Thanks!

Completely unrelated, I tried using the Wikia contact form, and it timed-out multiple times in a row, so I'm posting this here.

--Whitelaces 13:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

i did a bunch of testing with the spam blocking stuff, and after partially untangling your template chains, i think i have a solution for now, but not a permanent one.

just move the 'bad' template "Template:Infobox Creature/" to a new name. (like "Template:Infobox Creature-" all the includes will work "through" the redirect just fine. even if the redirected name is "banned".

from what i could tell, nothing is directly calling that one, everything uses the outer "Template:Infobox Creature", so you shouldnt have to change anything else.

--Uberfuzzy 16:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)