Scunthorpe problem

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Beliefs and thought

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What Wikipedia says

The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter, search engine or wordfilter because the text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Scunthorpe problem”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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