Viewing filter 894: Self-published sources

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Of the last 171,885 actions, this filter has matched 1 (0%). On average, its run time is 0.12 ms, and it consumes 0.6 conditions of the condition limit.

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/* Please apply any general improvements here to filter 893 as well. */ equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 2, 10, 118) & !contains_any(user_groups, "bot") & ( pattern := "(?xi) # publishers (?:publisher|work)\s*[=,:]\s*(?:Author\s*House|CreateSpace|Edwin\s*Mellen\s*Press|Grosvenor\s*House\s*Publishing|Lulu|Trafford\s*Publishing|XLibris|iUniverse)\b # links |\b(?:authorhouse\.com|createspace\.\w{2,3}|grosvenorhousepublishing\.com|iuniverse\.com|lulu\.com|mellenpress\.com|trafford\.com|xlibris\.com)\b "; added_lines rlike pattern & rcount(pattern, added_lines) > rcount(pattern, removed_lines) & !(summary rlike "\#UCB_Gadget|\breFill\b|(?i)\b(?:ban)?revert|\brv[vt]?\b|\bund(?:id|o)|^restor(?:ed?|ing)\b") & new_content_model == "wikitext" )

/* Please apply any general improvements here to filter 893 as well. */
equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 2, 10, 118) & 
!contains_any(user_groups, "bot") &
(
    pattern := "(?xi)
        # publishers
        (?:publisher|work)\s*[=,:]\s*(?:Author\s*House|CreateSpace|Edwin\s*Mellen\s*Press|Grosvenor\s*House\s*Publishing|Lulu|Trafford\s*Publishing|XLibris|iUniverse)\b
        # links
        |\b(?:authorhouse\.com|createspace\.\w{2,3}|grosvenorhousepublishing\.com|iuniverse\.com|lulu\.com|mellenpress\.com|trafford\.com|xlibris\.com)\b
    ";
    added_lines rlike pattern &
    rcount(pattern, added_lines) > rcount(pattern, removed_lines) &
    !(summary rlike "\#UCB_Gadget|\breFill\b|(?i)\b(?:ban)?revert|\brv[vt]?\b|\bund(?:id|o)|^restor(?:ed?|ing)\b") &
    new_content_model == "wikitext"
)

Notes:

Moving here from 861. -Crow 12/23/17

Changed the warning message from abusefilter-warning to abusefilter-warning-selfpublished -JJE 2 January 2018
Exclude Bots via usergroup check - C 7Jan18

!("bot" in user_groups) is most likely to evaluate to true, so putting it as the last condition in hopes to reduce overall condition count ~MA

Converted to parameterised and added Mellen + Grosvenor House - JzG 2019-08-24

Split publisher= and domain masks

Fix order of operations bug and typo in first regex --Suffusion of Yellow 19:57 26 Feb 2020

Avoid matches on lulu.jpg, trafford.gov.uk, etc. --Suffusion of Yellow 20:05 26 Feb 2020

Add CreateSpace to first regex (was dropped accidentally). --Suffusion of Yellow 19:00 27 Feb 2020

Also check User: and Template: namespaces; exclude more summaries (logged at 1081) --Suffusion of Yellow 20:36 30 Aug 2020

Exclude deletion/copyvio templates --Suffusion of Yellow 19:35 3 Sep 2020

Check content model so as not to trip on user scripts. --Suffusion of Yellow 21:48 27 Jan 2021

Fix Twinkle summary check. --Suffusion of Yellow 20:57 12 Feb 2022

Exclude the "citation expander" gadget. -- 0xDeadbeef 2023-10-15

Add Publifye, update description to include AI-generated sources, updated exceptions. --Daniel Quinlan 23 May 2026

Moving Publifye to 893. --Daniel Quinlan 23 May 2026

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