Research talk:Which parts of an article do readers read

Topic page

The format of this page is a bit of an experiment. For a while, we have been envisaging "topic pages" that collect data and results about a specific research topic/question (see e.g. [1], Research:Content persistence is a similar example). Edits are welcome. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 00:47, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

I triggered abuse filter and my edit wasn't allowed

Hi.

I tried to edit this page and I triggered an abuse filter that said: "Vandalistic edit summaries". My edit wasn't allowed.

My edit summary was as follows:

When the median number is zero, the mere mention of it misleads most readers. When we mention that the median is zero, what we're doing is transforming a trivial fact (but which only those very literate with numbers know that's trivial and unimportant) into something that most readers are not able to assess as what it is: trivial and unimportant. The important and (for most) intelligible fact is conveyed in the first part of the sentence, the part that I didn't delete.

And the edit I tried to do was to delete the following fragment:

", i.e. the median number of sections opened was 0"

from the following sentence:

39.9% of the non-tablet mobile users who viewed a mainspace page on November 30 opened a section there, i.e. the median number of sections opened was 0.

AwerDiWeGo (talk) 08:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

I triggered the abuse filter again. I thought the problem might be with the word "literate" that I used in the fragment "those very literate with numbers". I changed that word but I triggered the same abuse filter: "Vandalistic edit summaries". AwerDiWeGo (talk) 09:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

I tried a third time and my edit was allowed. Of course, feel free to revert (with reasons that can be given here or in the edit summary). AwerDiWeGo (talk) 09:17, 8 July 2025 (UTC)