MediaWiki talk:Tag-emoji

Emoji tag

Swept in from the pub

I suppose this isn't the right place , but I did not find any better. An edit was tagged as "Emoji". I did not find any emoji in the edit, perhaps the phone icons trigged the tag? Or the space removal between "*" and "{{"? For us the difference between somebody adding emojis or phone icons is quite big, so a better description might be worthwhile, or a change in the range of Unicode code points (I suppose that is how the filter works) could be useful. The tag is described as "defined by the software", so the latter is probably not very easy. In any case it is probably good for patrollers to be aware of the somewhat misleading description. --LPfi (talk) 11:46, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

I think it ok this being tagged as emoji edit, if someone has added a phone icon directly it usually indicates the entry should be changed to a listing. --Traveler100 (talk) 16:18, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Are there any negative effects from it being tagged as "emoji"? --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 00:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

It is true that the listing with a phone icon probably needs to be made a listing (like in this case), but it is probably a serious edit, while emojis proper identify test edits or worse. As long as patrollers know that these are identically tagged and don't come to the diff with prejudice, there is no problem. But if one sees the tag and is not aware of this (especially if there are several changes, so that one doesn't see at once there is no emoji), one could suppose other changes are vandalism. In the worst case the edit is undone and the user warned with the patroller never realizing it was a good faith edit. --LPfi (talk) 14:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)