Viewing abuse filter 8: Section blanking

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8

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(publicly viewable)

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Of the last 26 actions, this filter has matched 0 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.04 ms, and it consumes 2.2 conditions of the condition limit.

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length(added_lines) < 1 & page_namespace == 0 & ( ( rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike "==\w+==" & ( rmwhitespace(old_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==") & ! rmwhitespace(new_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==") ) ) | ( rmwhitespace(old_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace("==" + removed_lines + "==") & ! rmwhitespace(new_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==") ) )

length(added_lines) < 1 &
page_namespace == 0 &
(
  (
    rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike "==\w+==" &
    (
      rmwhitespace(old_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==") &
      ! rmwhitespace(new_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==")            
    )
  ) | 
  (
    rmwhitespace(old_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace("==" + removed_lines + "==") &
    ! rmwhitespace(new_wikitext) contains rmwhitespace(removed_lines + "==")
  )
)

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Adopted from Wikipedia filter 172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/172

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21:47, 1 July 2026 by Kkuo (talk | contribs)

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