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→Pokémon In The Main Navigation: It probably is, actually. A few of my Pokémon articles have links to Bulbapedia in them.
::::::::On a side note, I'm trying to set up [[Pokémon (3.5e Subtype)|a page for the Pokémon subtype]]. But it's not going well... it's setting off the spam filter, despite having no external links whatsoever. W. T. '''F.''' --[[User:Luigifan18|Luigifan18]] ([[User talk:Luigifan18|talk]]) 22:14, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
::::::::: Done, edit at your leisure. Not sure what the problem was on your side. Our spam filter is wahcky sometimesometimes, but it keep keeps the bots at bay. --[[User:Leziad|Leziad]] ([[User talk:Leziad|talk]]) 22:18, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::Not sure if this is what the problem is, but could be as a result of template-calling in semantic media wiki for populating lists. While there's not a name for it that I know of, I'm dubbing it now the Grandfathered Link problem. Some articles have non-whitelisted links. These pre-existing links on articles from before the whitelist can still be accessed and used despite still not being on the whitelist. The problem arises when the article is edited and it thinks the link is being added, resulting in a "this is blocked/spam/whatever" and it won't let you save the article. It actually happens a lot on people's user & talk pages, especially where those talk pages are really long with comments from lots of people pointing out things. It could be possible that one of the articles in the populated list or something is triggering the whitelist getting angry because it contains an external link. Again though, not sure if this is the problem. --[[User:Ganteka Future|Ganteka Future]] ([[User talk:Ganteka Future|talk]]) 22:30, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::It probably is, actually. A few of my Pokémon articles have links to Bulbapedia in them. And as far as I'm aware, Bulbapedia's not in the spam filter's exceptions list (dunno why, it seems like it'd be reputable enough).
:::::::::::This does, however, explain [[Media:File:Dungeons and Dragons Wiki - Spam Filter Freakout.png|how the spam filter could be set off when there are no slashes whatsoever in the article itself — yes, I used Control+F to check]]. How annoying. --[[User:Luigifan18|Luigifan18]] ([[User talk:Luigifan18|talk]]) 22:45, 8 December 2015 (UTC)