Search count off by one

MusicBrainz
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I routinely run a search of my edits, where I’m searching for:

  • Editor is Beckfield
  • Status is Open
  • Edit Note Content includes “GM Script” (without quotes)

At the moment I’m writing this, the result of the above search is 177 edits.
Out of curiosity, I changed the third parameter to “does not include”.
The result of this is 70 edits. Those values added together comes to 247, which should be the total number of open edits by me.

However, if I remove the Edit Note Content condition, which should give all open edits by me, the result is 248.

I haven’t taken the time to run down which one is correct, and whether there is an edit that appears in the 248 that doesn’t get counted in the 177 or 70.
This isn’t the first time I’ve done this. I first did this a few weeks ago.

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“Does not include GM or Script” (it’s “neither nor”, IMO), is not the opposite of “Includes GM or Script” (it’s “either one”).
It would be the opposite of “Includes GM AND Includes Script” (“includes both”).

And something else, probably unrelated, the “Edit note content includes” condition does not look further than a certain amount of characters, after the start of the edit notes.

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I just tried it with “GM” and got the same result.

  1. Editor is Beckfield
  2. Status is Open
  3. Edit Note Content includes “GM” (without quotes)

“Includes” returns: 208
“does not include” returns: 72
for a total of 280 (I’ve been working)

  1. Editor is Beckfield
  2. Status is Open

Returns 281