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→I was unable to add another vandal entry yesterday. The system said I was spamming.: How to not lose your edit
I ran into the same thing, but I followed TK's advice and it worked fine. ;-) [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 11:20, 13 June 2007 (EDT)
I ran into the same thing, but I followed TK's advice and it worked fine. ;-) [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 11:20, 13 June 2007 (EDT)
:I generally haven't had this problem (of losing my edit), and I've done some testing and figured out why.
:First, I generally use IE. I think this should work in other browsers, but I won't guarantee it.
:I almost always preview my edit before I post (the "Show preview" button next to the "Save page" button). The spam filter doesn't object when you do a preview, but previewing saves your edit in the browser's memory. So the steps are these:
:# Make your changes in the edit box.
:# When you've made your changes, click the "Show preview" button.
:# When you are happy with the preview, click the "Save page" button. The spam filter then gives the error message.
:# Click the browser's "back" button. In theory, you are going back to the last preview view. The browser will respond with an error message, saying that the page has expired, and to click the Refresh button if you want to resubmit your entry. (What you are thereby resubmitting is the text that you last previewed).
:# Click the Refresh button. The browser has effectively gone back to step 2. That is, it has resent the contents of the edit box, which it has remembered. So you now find yourself back in the edit box, ''with your changes intact'', ready for you to remove the offending word and resubmit.
:* This might seem a convoluted way of avoiding the problem, and perhaps it is is this is the only reason you use the "Show preview" button, but if you get yourself into the habit of previewing before submitting, it's no extra work except when you need to recover your edit.
:* If you preview, then make a minor change, then try to save the page ''without getting another preview'', then the text you recover will be as it was ''before'' you made those minor changes; i.e. it will be as it was when you last previewed.
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:17, 13 June 2007 (EDT)