Anyone who watches the UIUC VW Wiki knows what a spam magnet it's become - I do my part to restore pages regularly. I didn't want to have that sort of thing happen to our Wiki, so I put two levels of spam checks on it:

• "too many" hrefs
• A black list of keywords - new content matching any keyword fails

The problem was in the first check. I decided that "N" was too many hrefs, So I put in a check on that. However, it turns out that there are pages that already have more hrefs on them than "N", and my check was stupid - it didn't check for the difference between old and new, just the raw number.

That meant that no one could update pages like the Namespace reservation page. I fixed that this morning - sorry for the inconvenience.

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