Viewing filter 735: Possible sports infobox vandalism

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Of the last 187,323 actions, this filter has matched 2 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.08 ms, and it consumes 1.5 conditions of the condition limit.

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owner := "\|\s*owner(?:s|ship)?\s*=(.*)"; /* prefilters */ page_namespace == 0 & !("confirmed" in user_groups) & /* primary conditions */ added_lines irlike owner & old_wikitext irlike "Infobox\s+(?:American\s+football\s+team|Australian\s+football\s+club|basketball\s+club|cricket\s+team|football\s+club|MLB|NBA\s+team|NFL\s+team|NHL\s+team)" & ( old := get_matches(owner, removed_lines)[1]; new := get_matches(owner, added_lines)[1]; norm(old) != norm(new) ) & /* exceptions */ !( /* revert of temporary account */ user_type == "named" & summary irlike "^(?:restored?|restoring|revert\w*|rv[tv]?|undid)\b|\b(?:BANREVERT|BRV|REVERTBAN)\b" & ( summary irlike "\[\[Special:Contributions/(~2\d{3}(?:-\d+)+)\|\1\]\]" | ( length(page_recent_contributors) > 1 & page_recent_contributors[0] rlike "^~2\d{3}(?:-\d+)+$" ) ) )

owner := "\|\s*owner(?:s|ship)?\s*=(.*)";
/* prefilters */
page_namespace == 0 &
!("confirmed" in user_groups) &
/* primary conditions */
added_lines irlike owner &
old_wikitext irlike "Infobox\s+(?:American\s+football\s+team|Australian\s+football\s+club|basketball\s+club|cricket\s+team|football\s+club|MLB|NBA\s+team|NFL\s+team|NHL\s+team)" &
(
  old := get_matches(owner, removed_lines)[1];
  new := get_matches(owner, added_lines)[1];
  norm(old) != norm(new)
) &
/* exceptions */
!(
  /* revert of temporary account */
  user_type == "named" &
  summary irlike "^(?:restored?|restoring|revert\w*|rv[tv]?|undid)\b|\b(?:BANREVERT|BRV|REVERTBAN)\b" &
  (
    summary irlike "\[\[Special:Contributions/(~2\d{3}(?:-\d+)+)\|\1\]\]" |
    (
      length(page_recent_contributors) > 1 &
      page_recent_contributors[0] rlike "^~2\d{3}(?:-\d+)+$"
    )
  )
)

Notes:

Testing per request https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested#Changing_owner_field_in_infoboxes --Samwalton9, 24 Nov 2015

Tagging as possible vandalism, edits not always inherently bad and FP rate a bit too high for me to be comfortable with disallow. --Samwalton9, 20 Dec 2015

Updated to improve coverage --Daniel Quinlan, 15 Oct 2023

Ignore whitespace/punctuation/cap. changes. --Suffusion of Yellow 22:23 29 Apr 2024

Updated to avoid false positives on reverts of TA vandalism. --Daniel Quinlan 9 April 2026

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