diff --git a/Controllers/PF_Readability.php b/Controllers/PF_Readability.php
index 99e59f079..411deaf3d 100644
--- a/Controllers/PF_Readability.php
+++ b/Controllers/PF_Readability.php
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ public function get_readable_text( $args ) {
 			$url = pressforward( 'controller.http_tools' )->resolve_full_url( $url );
 			// var_dump($url); die();
 			$descrip = rawurldecode( $descrip );
-		if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) {
-			$descrip = stripslashes( $descrip ); }
+		if ( false !== strpos( $descrip, '\\' ) ) {
+			$descrip = stripslashes( $descrip );
+		}
 
 		if ( $authorship == 'aggregation' ) {
 			$aggregated = true;
diff --git a/Libraries/PFSimpleHtmlDom.php b/Libraries/PFSimpleHtmlDom.php
index 0b73d6b4a..cfd26bb73 100644
--- a/Libraries/PFSimpleHtmlDom.php
+++ b/Libraries/PFSimpleHtmlDom.php
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ protected function parse_selector( $selector_string ) {
 		// This implies that an html attribute specifier may start with an @ sign that is NOT captured by the expression.
 		// farther study is required to determine of this should be documented or removed.
 		// $pattern = "/([\w-:\*]*)(?:\#([\w-]+)|\.([\w-]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[\w-]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+)/is";
-		$pattern = "/([\w-:\*]*)(?:\#([\w-]+)|\.([\w-]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[\w-:]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+)/is";
+		$pattern = "/([\w\-:\*]*)(?:\#([\w\-]+)|\.([\w\-]+))?(?:\[@?(!?[\w\-:]+)(?:([!*^$]?=)[\"']?(.*?)[\"']?)?\])?([\/, ]+)/is";
 		preg_match_all( $pattern, trim( $selector_string ) . ' ', $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );
 		if ( is_object( $debugObject ) ) {$debugObject->debugLog( 2, 'Matches Array: ', $matches );}
 
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ protected function read_tag() {
 			return true;
 		}
 
-		if ( ! preg_match( '/^[\w-:]+$/', $tag ) ) {
+		if ( ! preg_match( '/^[\w\-:]+$/', $tag ) ) {
 			$node->_[ PF_HDOM_INFO_TEXT ] = '<' . $tag . $this->copy_until( '<>' );
 			if ( $this->char === '<' ) {
 				$this->link_nodes( $node, false );
diff --git a/includes/functions.php b/includes/functions.php
index 9b3674dab..28e27b14c 100644
--- a/includes/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions.php
@@ -422,6 +422,9 @@ function pf_prep_item_for_submit( $item ) {
 		}
 
 		if ( is_array( $itemPart ) ) {
+			if ( 'nominators' === $itemKey ) {
+				$itemPart = array_keys( $itemPart );
+			}
 			$itemPart = implode( ',',$itemPart );
 		}