Thread:BiggestThomasFan/@comment-3388044-20141117112452/@comment-3388044-20141217094955

Turns out because of one of our abuse filters, no one here can actually add a note to my talk page at User:SpikeToronto/talk.

We’ve this filter there at Scratchpad that will not let users edit in other people’s userspaces. We created it for two reasons: So, we created this abuse filter that, when editing in the User: namespace, compares your userid with the userid to which the userspace belongs: no match, no save.
 * 1) in general, people were using the User: namespace as they would the article mainspace: cast lists, etc. It took us weeks to clean it all out.
 * 2) more specifically, people were vandalizing other people’s user pages (i.e., profile pages), often as part of edit wars

I am going to have to ask one of the regex experts at VSTF to tell me how to make my talk-page-in-userspace (as opposed to our pre-message wall talk-page-in-user talkspace) an exception to that particular abuse filter.

Stand by for updates!

— Spike  Toronto  09:49, December 17, 2014 (UTC)