User:ClueBot/FalsePositives

This is where false positives should be reported.
Reports not following these instructions will be deleted.

To report a false positive:

You need to get ClueBot's revert ID, there are two ways to do this: From the article: Click the history tab at the top of the article. The revert ID is in parenthesis right after "Thanks, User:ClueBot". From your talk page: Click the "edit this page" tab at the top of the page. The revert ID is in the text right after "MySQL ID:".

Now, click here and put the revert ID in the box when prompted.

False positive

Cluebot objected to a redirect that I put in to correct an incorrect title created by someone else (last word of page title should be "experiments" not "research" "The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Research was changed by FRAME UK (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2009-03-16T15:46:43+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 15:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:FRAME_UK" " FRAME UK (talk) 15:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (no revert id) UserTalk: Andean Cat / Andean Mountain Cat

Can't Revert, http://24.40.131.153/cluebot.php not reachable ... Also, no revert ID listed.

Entry states: 20:12, 7 March 2009 ClueBot (talk | contribs) m (2,414 bytes) (moved Talk:Andean Cat to Talk:Andean Mountain Cat over redirect: Reverting possible vandalism by Usrytregre to older version. False positive? Report it. Thanks, [[User:ClueBot|Cl)

Moved the main article from "Andean Mountain Cat" to "Andean Cat" per the articles on all the references and links I added. The world's authority on small wild cats, Jim Sanderson states the proper name is "Andean Cat". system asked if I wanted to move Usertalk: Andean Mountain Cat to Usertalk: Andean Cat. I said yes. Your cluebot reverted it and marked it as vandelism. I put it back.

--J Tregre (talk) 17:51, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (604824)

Can't Revert, http://24.40.131.153/cluebot.php not reachable ... Some of the explanations are simply redundant with the text on the main page, which should have been moved at the time when the main page was created.

False Positive (581903)

The following log entry states that my change (adding complete specifications for the Yamaha FJ1200) was "browser crashing". It's not. My browser's fine. :-)

Yamaha FJ1200 was changed by Gregmarch (u) (t) adding huge, browser-crashing tables on 2009-02-11T12:45:08+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 12:45, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Greg March (talk) 12:53, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

False positives

I reported at false positive, reverting User:Chriszwolle (and placing a warning on user talk page) at Andorra. The report doesn't seem to have registered. __meco (talk) 09:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Yellow Evan List of Pacifc Hurriucanes

This was a false statement if you look at List of Atlantic hurricanes.--Yellow Evan (talk) 23:42, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Language Purification

Hi,

this was a false positive. I cant find a report on the talk page of the user, so I'll do it this way. effeietsanders 18:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Criterion of multiple attestation

Hello,

I would like to report that revert 350003 is a false positive. I suspect that this accusation is being inappropriately assigned to all users of my school's LAN. I performed no such edits on any of the aforementioned subject, nor do I have any idea as to why these messages are showing up on my account. I would suggest the usage of unique tracking cookies to help differentiate IP's from the same network and to screen out ID hackers/clones.

Carl-Gorn (talk) 20:04, 24 September 2008 (UTC)Carl-Gorn

False positive move

I have been warned by deleting 27491 characters on Latvian language by Cluebot, which Im not done. Ar4a (talk) 23:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

PIM

[1] does not appear to be vandalism in any possible sense. Could you explain to me whaty you marked it as such. Reply on my talk page, please 07:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC).

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

[2] Not exactly a false positive, it is a failure to revert far enough and consequently reverting to alternate vandalism. Revert ID: 315718. SpinningSpark 10:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

False positive move

The move of United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) (493805) see here seems to be a false positive. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:23, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

False positive error

I wanted to report ClueBot ID 496140 as a false-positive but I got a mySQL error. I wouldn't term the user's edits "unconstructive". There's been heated debate on whether to use the name Bengaluru or Bangalore to describe the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. All the user did, it appears, is redirect the latter article to the former, possibly indicating his preference. Guilty of not building consensus on edits, perhaps, but not guilty of making edits that are not constructive. Thanks AreJay (talk) 00:57, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

False Positive

497547. Trying to report it, of course the link doesn't work. Trying to remove unsourced material from the Mythbusters article, and of course, it keeps being reverted by this fucking Spambot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by YcOaDtA (talk • contribs) 05:36, November 30, 2008

False Positive

The site is titled Run (Snow Patrol song) and not Leona Lewis Advertising support. For Lewis' cover-song was created an own site called Run (Leona Lewis cover). The user Adi39 feeds the site constantly with Leona-Lewis-Advertising about her new single, a cover of "Run". That's pure marketing of Lewis' new single, but is contrasted to the original site, even with its title "Run (Snow Patrol song) and not neutrally wiki-editing more. The reason, why I made his renewed Leona Lewis Advertising undone.

False Positive

Note: Link provided above still does not work.

501108. The entry for West Covina, California sounds far too much like a) someone wants to promote the city government's actions, or, b) someone just copied it out of the city's monthly newsletter. I am attempting to purge and rewrite substantial chunks. – Switchfoot (talk) 02:41, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Mistake

502691 This is to report that my action in deleting the text in the article Youth worker was a mistake. I cleared the redirection text and inadvertantly clicked save. I thought I had stopped it before it actually carried through. I carried on adding my own useful (as I see them) insights.
BTW, the link to the report bot still does not work.
Jubilee♫clipman 06:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Reporting a false positive

See this diff. -- IRP ☎ 23:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Undoing blanking

504396 [3] was a true positive to undo blanking. Unfortunately it was also a reversion to previous vandalism involving a personal attack and bad language. --Rumping (talk) 11:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

False positive

This diff is not a deletion vandalism, because that table was moved to main article Internet Explorer as shown here. Kindly, Linfocito B | Greetings from Colombia! 18:54, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

UBS AG Controversies deleted

Undid revision 257743765 by ClueBot (talk)

==501149 False Positive. The link to report the false positive still does not work. I was going through the process of restoring vandalized material, which had been done by removing material at one location and creating a new Wikipedia entry which contained the material put forth by one individual. The overall effect was vandalism--material deleted without justification. This is discussed in the talk section of Wikipedia MIA (Missing in Action). The material needs to be worked out at Wikipedia MIA BEFORE creating new entries so that one individual cannot do an entire rewrite of what was worked out through compromise ToTheCircus (talk) 01:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive

511410. Reverted perfectly good move, perhaps because of the word 'strip'. — neuro^(talk) 02:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive

511616. I rewrote the intro to Lunaception. Not sure what triggered ClueBot, except maybe that I wasn't logged in. Ben Kovitz (talk) 06:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive

511806. Thanks. Bot now making an otherwise simple task much more messy. Lurcher66 (talk) 14:05, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Spore (2008 video game)

513207 Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 03:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Manuela Moelgg

513844 is a false positive. I've already re-moved the talk to correct name --Tia solzago (talk) 11:22, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive

The link to report false positives is timing out. 515829 is a false positive. The page is now deleted, so let me know if you need to see the text of it.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive

The following text was moved here from User talk:ClueBot/FalsePositives. User could not post here because this page is semi-protected.

516512 This edit was to remove copyrighted material and to revert to a previous version which does not violate copyright. The automatic reporting system remains broken, so I am reporting it in this way. Macbeth (talk) 09:04, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Ben Folds

The link I was supposed to click doesn't work, so here's my attempt at reporting a false positive on Ben Folds:

• Edit ID: 519368
• Diff: [4]

The IP editor who got warned was only restoring the article to a pre-vandalised state. The Parting Glass (talk) 12:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive on Joseon Dynasty

I too have problems with the "False Positives" reporting URL, so here is my report:

Revert ID: 519432 Diff: [5]

A few minutes after your revert, I myself made a mistake in reverting a subsequent revision to the page, but is back to the version before your revert. Thanks, Willking1979 (talk) 15:33, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive on Zeitgeist, the Movie

Revert ID: 524336 Was trying to cleanup and rearrange the article, definitely not vandalism.Sardath (talk) 09:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Can't report false positive

this was a bad revert. 526364 diff link

Cluebot should not revert pagemove in own userspace (519246)

As it did here.–Capricorn42 (talk) 06:41, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Reporting mechanism broken

Get a network timeout. 531503 does not appear to be vandalism. Poorly sourced, but not vandalism. Janus303 (talk) 06:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Kurt Warner

533776 reverted to a vandalized page with just 23 bytes. Minutes earlier, 533768 had properly reverted similar vandalism. Maybe implementing some sort of memory would help? BTW: timed out when attempting to contact 24.40.131.153 -- Matthead  Discuß   00:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Kapisa Province

534713 Network timeout... all I want to do is move the unreadable scholarly stuff to another page.

Can't Revert, http://24.40.131.153/cluebot.php not reachable

536381 is not vandalism, version 1.0 of Moonlight (runtime) has been released. diff

DITTO 536027 David (Michelangelo)

DITTO 538571 - Dolly Varden (hat) NOT vandalism. Mabalu (talk) 16:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Cannot revert 540376

And it seems like I'm not the only one! Runnersdialzero33 (talk) 08:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Athenaeum Club -- 542349

Disambiguating article. Not vandalism. H.Starke (talk)

False Positive 543250

Added references and not vandalism. "Japanese escort Ishigaki was changed by Creeping Death 1982 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2009-01-23T18:19:35+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 18:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:Creeping_Death_1982"

Robert Scoble - 543760

Wasn't vandalizing. I really meant to remove that cruft. See talk page. --Drinkadrink (talk) 22:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Recent Edit

Hi there, my recent edit was reverted by the clue bot. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Akkara_Kazhachakal. It is actually a case of bad spelling. The article title should have been "Akkara Kazhchakal" which is why I put a redirect to the correct page. --Ashlypat (talk) 00:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive (544429)

Since the reposting page is dead, here my hand-written comment: This edit was not vandalism. The dashed version is from the given source. One might debate this one way or the other (obviously, the original author used the full expletive), but it's not a case of vandalism. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Biting newcomer in sandbox - 543568

[Above reporting mechanism not responding] ClueBot bit a newcomer for a normal test edit in a sandbox. [6] --GregU (talk) 19:33, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Roswell, Georgia (546207)

I recently had a minor edit reverted by ClueBot, however, my edit was not vandalism. The link already used as a citation includes the new information I was trying to edit in. Additionally, the link above to report false positives did not work for me. --Cg41386 (talk) 18:50, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (549093) Neuro emotional technique

This edit was done in good faith by 137.53.94.32, as he was removing a large portion of ad-like information. Versus22 _talk 23:27, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

false positive 547734 on Open Door Policy

Just reporting a false positive: Yesterday, this edit by 216.12.41.70 was reverted. I've examined the edit and it wasn't vandalism. While the user was removing a lot of material, the material removed was mostly a whole bunch of copies of a single paragraph from the article. -- Why Not A Duck 00:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: 553152

False positive on change from "cunt" to "cuntface" as it appears in the novel Atonement -- Poe Joe (talk) 01:52, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Two false positives

552909 diff and 553541 diff E.B. (talk) 03:04, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

also, I cannot access the false positive report page, server is taking too long to respond E.B. (talk) 03:04, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive: 554807

Seems to have tripped up on an edit that removed a large amount of content to article QWERTY. Normally this is a sign of vandalism but in this case the content removed was vandalism added earlier in the day.

Manually reported here since the site referenced by the click here link above appears to be down. CrispMuncher (talk) 19:44, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive 557582 on Shiloh (singer)

Looks like the obscenity that was added was part of a new song title, which is also mentioned on the website referenced by the edit in question. I've removed the warning from the user's talk page and reinstated their edit on the article. -- Why Not A Duck 23:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

False positive: 559336 on Naturoid

The "Click here" link for adding reports appears unresponsive, so this has been manually added.

It looks like ClueBot reversed an edit solely based on article size. If this is current expected behavior, I'd suggest adjusting the criteria so that such edits that have edit summaries and leave significant material be allowed to pass. -- Tcncv (talk) 06:53, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive - 566292

on page Ellie Levenson warning Heramai (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for mild obscenity. pablo_hablo. 14:43, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Chocolate Syrup - 572751

On page Chocolate syrup, I attempted to revert vandalism. Chocolate Syrup page is currently about Corey Ian Haim, not Chocolate syrup. Why was my revert flagged?

False positive: 575017 on Grunauer Alexander

False positive: I have corrected the name of the article, and the bot without reverting anything has sent me a warning that I have created a redirect to non-existant page. Please fix the bot because such messages for a page move are at least strange. Thanks — NickK (talk) 21:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

False positive: 575368

As per concerns in discussion page for Sasha Grey, Jrbot22 edited Wikipedia entry and omitted all non-encyclopedic entries, which have been edited by subject of the Wikipedia page. Users have commented on the poorly sourced and subjective information submitted by Grey. Skomorokh has reverted edits by Jrbot22, once again making it poorly sourced and subjective. I have been reported for vandalism through attempts to keep Wikipedia page free of unnecessary edits. Nabulzi (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

False positive 575751

Regarding this edit, ClueBot did not realise that the edit previous to this vandalous edit was also vandalism. Perhaps ClueBot can check the previous edit (especially if it is by an IP) for vandalism so as to avoid the same mistake.

Also, the "Now, click here and put the revert ID in the box when prompted." link is dead, and seems to have been dead for a week at least.

False Positive: 576082

I was trying to show that Tyler Pope is part of the band !!! in this page as the previous few Cake albums with Tyler Pope (1, 2, 3) were also shown this way.

False Positive: 576093

Same as "False Positive: 576082" (previous one, just for this page instead).

False Positive: 582401

I was changing the CeBIT article to fit NPOV and removed a lot of unnecessary advertising. I did it in one edit though, which triggered the False Positive. As others pointed out, the link to the report function doesn't work. --Amidasu (talk) 16:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: 584650

Most of the article is based on an unreliable source according to wiki rules. I tried to delete all the bad-sourced info at once and ClueBot triggered from too many bytes being deleted. The report it link is not working like others are saying. Ywaz (talk) 13:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: (no revert ID was given)

The Cluebot has reverted a Move I made for the DangerMouse (should be "Danger Mouse (TV Series)" page, but in the history there is no revert ID listed. When I followed the link to try and report this, I just got "page cannot be displayed" error. Without a revert ID I doubt I'd be able to do much with it anyway. With regards this move, I've provided a detailed list of evidence as to why the article is incorrectly named, and why it should be moved. Not sure what else to do, I'll wait a while and then undo the Cluebot change.

False Positive (585339)

585339 - Restored text in another language on Po (Teletubbies) [7]. Versus22 _talk 18:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: 585705

Sorry for adding it like that but the link you gave to post doesn't work for me. Anyway article is edited by people who are against Montenegro. They also vandalise other Montenegrin articles. Can wikipedia help somehow? Rave92 (talk) 23:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: 589130

An IP vandalised the Francis Crick article[8] by adding an extra copy of the content (as well as some other vandalism). This was undone by another IP[9] but reverted by ClueBot.[10] The link for reporting false positives is broken so I'm mentioning it here instead. —Snigbrook 13:37, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive: 589745 on 2009

This edit, to 2009, was half-right, half-wrong. I suppose it's unusual for an IP to make a good edit and then vandalize; but that's more or less what happened here.

The second edit deleted[11] was vandalism, or close enough. But the first edit[12] isn't vandalism. (It's not notable enough for 2009, but I don't imagine ClueBot is set up to know that.)

Like others, reporting here because the URL for reporting is not loading. -- Ken g6 (talk) 21:26, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Houston

ClueBot wrote:

Uptown Houston‎; 00:50 . . (+19) . . ClueBot (Talk | contribs) (Reverting possible vandalism by 72.88.230.164

I agree with the reversion but it was a very minor change, I imagine an innocent slip.

Si. SimonTrew (talk) 18:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (#591759)

This edit (#591759) was a false positive. I reverted it since the submission page is down.

False Positive (608776)

False positive. Human_rights_in_the_United_States In the talk page, you can see I give individual reasons for each edit. Reporting link doesn't seem to be working... Joker1189 (talk) 21:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (611728)

Cluebot reverted this, probably because it was a big edit. the cluebot report page is down, incidentally. --Ludwigs2 06:36, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

False positive (611985)

//en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Unified_Modeling_Language&diff=next&oldid=273839491: Anon reverts other anon's vandalism and gets reverted. —Ms2ger (talk) 12:11, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

False positive - good faith blanking (611969)

This article had been previously vandalised, an inexperienced user blanked the page as s/he did not know enough of the page subject to be able to recreate the page but wanted to get rid of the obscenities (I've left a message on their talk page to explain how to find a previous good version instead, another time!), and Cluebot helpfully reinstated those obscenities. Maybe ClueBot could be programmed to look out for a list of specified obscenities in deleted material, and not automatically reinstate such text? PamD (talk) 23:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

False positive (620198)

legitimate edit with an obsenity. Here's the diff: [13]. Zite (talk) 05:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

False positive (624582)

What's going on: I just changed Weblogic from a REDIRECT to 2 links, and that's vandalism... I think it's time to call Terminator to kill that stoupid bot... --Alainr345 (talk) 01:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (627022)

False, I was trying to undo what a user said but it did not work properly so I scanned through the article and didn't read carefully only the top of the edit and selected choice this draft. So it saved it and little did I know it was a spammer/vandilized draft. I'm sorry that happened, I did not do it on purpose. Thanks Ryryrules100 (talk) 06:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

False positive (627274)

The article supergravity was getting too long, and so, I decided to split some sections of it off to a new article higher dimensional supergravity. After moving over a few sections to the new article, I deleted them from the old article, but replaced them with a link to the new article, so none of the information was lost. Hep thinker (talk) 14:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (627823)

Bot reverted non-vandalism which happens to be a 100% correct edit that was reverted.--Giants27 ^T/C 23:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

628518

Cluebot reverted removal of vandalism. -- IRP ☎ 14:45, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

False positive - Transitive verb - 628691

Hi, this edit is not vandalism, but ClueBot reverted it with id 628691. The situation is, someone duplicated the content of the page several times and removing the duplicates was reverted as vandalism. Thanks! --R27182818 (talk) 17:05, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

False positive (609303)

This edit is not vandalism; somebody replaced this disambiguation page with the content of the Toshiba Corporation article, and this user was reverting that.

John Henderson (Defensive Tackle)

I reverted a big edit by 129.31.69.81 on John Henderson because it was full of false information and ClueBot reverted it back for whatever reason. I looked back at the edits for this IP address and he has vandalized a page on the thumbs up. I would like to know what triggered ClueBot to revert this edit. Revert ID: 631151

Update: edit has been reverted by another user.

kriegerdwm (Removal of 2300 days in the Abomination of Desolation)

The editing out of the 2300 days as part of the Abomination of Desolation material was, as far as I can ascertain, egregious and delimits the argument considerably. This material does not fit the Day-year principle because the editor of the article has so requested it - if, then, it doesn't fit into that issue - and is considered superfluous by some here - then, pray tell, where does it fit? I humbly submit it fits into the Abomination of Desolation as a logical and spiritual centerpiece regarding this most salient interpretation!

False positive (Daniel Gottlob) Moritz Schreber

I tried to move Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber to Moritz Schreber, because this was his usual name, but revert by ClueBot. There is no UserClueBot:Revert ID in the page history --Enst38 (talk) 12:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (637233)

In reference to a vandalism warning for editing List of Coffeehouse Chains. The addition I made was the chain "Bad Ass Coffee," a chain in Orlando, FL. I realize why the bot would catch this. However this is the LEGITIMATE name of a real coffee house that I frequented for several years. It is a prominent business, well established, and very popular. Their locations are all over Orlando on most major thoroughfares. If possible please remove this warning and revert the edit. Thanks MKleid (talk) 14:25, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

False Positive (638665)

I was making some similar (repeated) edits as for some reason someone has made the same error in the title of a few pages. Cluebot let me move the actual article, but not the talk page. [diff[14]]