Thank you for fixing my species title on Centropages typicus!

JellybeanTurtle17 (talk) 21:27, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @JellybeanTurtle17! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:36, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ian, sorry to trouble you again but this is clearly ongoing (and I certainly see only a tiny percentage of the cases). Once again, a student [has hastily added a pile of uncited coursework directly into a science article.

The stakeholders involved here are readers, editors and patrollers, students, lecturers, and the Wikipedia education team. Most students do their level best to find and cite sources, but not all. Lecturers surely explain the basics to the students. The team surely briefs the lecturers. And yet... I wonder whether students and lecturers couldn't be "vaccinated" against this kind of edit with a bit of humour? I mean, a couple of slides showing the worst imaginable uncited bit of coursework into an article, complete with a heading like "Mytown University Science Department Coursework, November 20" and a chunk of obviously unencyclopedic text? Even a cartoon, actually. Once lecturer and students have shared a laugh about it, the students may be a lot less likely to try to pull that one in practice. Just an idea. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:03, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chiswick Chap Wow - this is even a different class. I've never had this happen once, far less twice in one term. And thanks for the fun suggestion - it's better than me banging my head against a wall :) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:15, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ian, good luck with it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:19, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello.

I need help with...

I need to know if the article I put in my sand box and publish is correted right. Any helpful hits in making good corrects.

--Tala Luva (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tala Luva. Brianda (Wiki Ed) is actually the Wikipedia expert for your class. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ian,

My sandbox is a finished article of bawskee 4 an album by comethazine but on wiki.edu it links my article as comethazine. How do i make it so that article is linked to my actual sandbox, do i need to publish the article? Matthewicee (talk) 02:35, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Matthewicee, to submit your article for a Wikipedia editor to review, you can type {{subst:submit}} at the top. A reviewer will come around, fix it up and publish it. (talk page stalker) Happy Editing -- IAmChaos 03:21, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Matthewicee. Before you consider moving your draft to mainspace, you need to improve a couple of your sources. According to Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources "Album of the Year" isn't the best source, since it's a mix of professional and amateur reviewers. Your quote from a review there is also far too long - quotes should be kept as short as possible and only be included when the precise wording makes a significant difference to readers' understanding.

Also "Pickle" probably isn't a professional music critic. If you're reporting someone's opinion, they should be someone notable in the field.

As for the page - you can edit the redirect like any other page (if you use that link). If you need a refresher on how to do this, please review this training module or this video. Don't forget to remove the redirect itself from the page, and the template. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ian,

I'm writing an entry on a forgotten Egyptian woman poet. She died on 1950 and there is scarce information of her. I reached out one her her family relative, her niece, and managed to conduct a phone interview with her. She told me a few pieces if information about this poet. Can I use it on my entry? If yes, how could it be cited?

Thanks, Mar Means Sea (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mar Means Sea unfortunately you can't use an interview like this because it's unpublished, which means it's unverifiable. I really wish there was another way to handle things like this, but there isn't. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:35, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ian (Wiki Ed),

I recently edited a page for Dentin phosphoprotein and received a couple messages from you. I've been having trouble citing the articles and books I found based on my research because I used the library database to research and had trouble finding usable links outside of the school's system. However, when I went back to edit my paper I can no longer find it. Would you be able to help me find it?

Thank you @Emperd-24 Emperd-24 (talk) 21:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the page history you can see that your edit was removed because it was "mostly unreferenced". The Wikipedian who removed your edit also left you a message on your talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:34, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello.

I need help with...

Can you edit and check my paragraph? ~2025-38215-19 (talk) 19:36, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

--~2025-38215-19 (talk) 19:36, 10 December 2025 (UTC) Brigid[reply]

You're not logged in to Wikipedia, so I don't know who you are. Sorry about that. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ian,

We are finalizing our wiki project! It would be really good if you could take a quick look and give us your valuable feedback.

This is our draft page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:China_Artificial_Intelligence_Development_and_Global_Interactions. Thank you so much for your time!

Best, Zifan Zhao

--Zifan Zhao (talk) 15:37, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please look into User:Tamdra's edits? Check the filtered 1346 (hist · log) logs here [1]. And these aren't urls with a chatgpt parameter (which could happen from using chargpt as a search engine, i.e. not a problem), they are raw oaicite refs that are typically associated with unreviewed LLM-generated content. These are often [2] infobox creations, but sometimes [3] involve adding article prose as well. Maybe there is an explanation here - they are made in quick succession so I wonder if they are adding these for students? But I'm reaching out because this is an instructor. NicheSports (talk) 11:25, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello colleagues,

We have an edit-a-thon, that's why this is happening. I have slowed down.

Thank you,

Drake Tamdra (talk) 13:03, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:OAICITE, these almost always suggest that raw and unreviewed output from ChatGPT is being added. --Gurkubondinn (talk) 13:46, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gurkubondinn@NicheSports - Thanks for letting me know. These shouldn't have come up as our classes, we're not involved with these editathons. I'm guessing it was supposed to be on the P&E Dashboard. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:05, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NP. Just curious, what is the resolution here? Will you handle the edits or should we revert? NicheSports (talk) 20:16, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NicheSports I'm still a bit flooded with end-of-semester stuff (too many people trying to get things done right at the end of the semester) so I'd be very appreciative if you had the time to clean it up. Ping me (or my alter ego) if there's anything that needs deletion. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:21, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The filter logs have been inundated with Wiki Ed LLM edits recently, so I can imagine ha. Gurkubondinn and I can handle this, will let you know if anything comes up but I think we should be fine. NicheSports (talk) 20:23, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NicheSports I didn't realise there was an edit filter alert for that. (We're running everything through Pangram.com, which seems to work pretty well.)

And thanks so much! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:28, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1346 (hist · log) and 1325 (hist · log) catch a lot. 1346 more so, 1325 is a bit out of date post ChatGPT-5. A lot is still going through though. NicheSports (talk) 21:56, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The markdown syntax filter 1369 (hist · log) also catches a lot of the more clueless stuff. --Gurkubondinn (talk) 22:02, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian (Wiki Ed) Note that this hashtag is displayed on this wmflabs page: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_Usergroup_Uganda/Community_Mega_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_2025/home. Is WikiEd separate from the wmflabs' edit-a-thons? David10244 (talk) 04:37, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to add: I'm not asking you to do anything, and I just realized that this was started by a user group and not a university. Thanks. David10244 (talk) 04:41, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244 Yes, we're separate from that.

The m:Programs & Events Dashboard is a tool that anyone in the movement can use to track some group of editors or articles. It's used for edit-a-thons, for Wikipedians in Residence, for GLAM projects, and for education projects that we're not involved with. The Wiki Education Dashboard is used for our programs. It's the same software, and Sage (Wiki Ed) maintains both instances, but the P&E Dashboard is hosted by WMF. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:56, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks for the explanation! David10244 (talk) 02:35, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning. I am working as an intern - not for tris, but for the Josh Powell - one of the Authors on the HEALing Communities Study. I made changes to the page and one of the editors said I had a conflict. First, Niciceptin is not a product - which seems to confuse some of the editors.

Here is a link to my changes. I am not sure how to move forward. HELP!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nociceptin&oldid=1323923314

Agnes. Agnes R Waite (talk) 15:53, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Agnes R Waite I can only support student editors who are involved with Wiki Education-supported courses, especially at this time of year. I suggest you visit the WP:Teahouse - the folks there are nice, and good at helping new editors. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:57, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am one of the regular chemistry editors. The student projects that we see are often substandard, so here is an idea. On our project page, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemistry there is a section called things you can do" which lists diverse tasks for fixing or creating chemical content. Maybe some instructors would be interested in those ideas?--Smokefoot (talk) 14:59, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just randomly checked on the article I made a long while back, and someone removed the digital drawing of the person that I did calling it "worse than nothing." I reverted the change. Is this going to be an issue? Margaret Helen Harper page. Kristinbell (talk) 23:42, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kristinbell, I happened across this page and saw your post. I looked at the edit in question, and my feeling is that the edit summary calling the image "worse than nothing" is not helpful or informative. It doesn't tell us why the edit was made. I have notified the editor about this here. Hopefully, they will respond and explain why they found the image problematic.

Happy New Year! OrdinaryOtter (talk) 06:55, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies to @Kristinbell, I should have been more clear when I removed the image. I removed it because digital portrait drawings are unusual for biographies, and I felt the use of a digital drawing was distracting. I will not remove it again. I think it can be replaced with the yearbook photograph, but that is a separate issue. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:49, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The photograph in the yearbook PDF looks very small and low resolution, so I'm not sure it would work for the page. Good idea, though 😀 OrdinaryOtter (talk) 08:08, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia guidelines are generally against trying to modify low-resolution images like the drawing does because they inevitably introduce inaccuracies and guess at details. See the guidelines MOS:COLORIZED and MOS:AIUPSCALE, which discourage related modifications that are much smaller than creating a new drawing. The only potential obstacle to adding the photograph is that it might be non-free content (which is one of few reasons why Wikipedia occasionally uses drawings in place of photographs). It seems likely that the yearbook is public domain (unless the scan omitted a page with a copyright notice), and even if it is copyrighted, the photograph would still probably pass WP:NFCC. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 08:59, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your help here @Helpful Raccoon and @OrdinaryOtter. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:46, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I just wanted to offer some feedback on recent Wiki Ed additions on this page. The course page can be found here, and this is the user who made the edits.

Unfortunately, the majority of the student's contributions are not supported by the sources they cited. I've been going through all their edits and sources carefully, and I've had to remove a lot of content because it was inaccurate or was subjective interpretation or original research. I'm not done with my review yet, but I wanted to make someone aware that, in this case, it seems like there was not sufficient oversight or review by experienced editors, and the student added lots of content that does not follow WP guidelines. Perhaps in the future there can be safeguards to prevent this from happening?

Thanks for your time,

OrdinaryOtter (talk) 06:42, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@OrdinaryOtter A lot of what's not supported by citations is AI-generated slop. We've added training modules to help students understand the problems with AI (and why it can't be used to generate Wikipedia content) and we're running all their contributions through an AI checker. I'm still trying to get better at dealing with this (I have a hard time reverting someone's work simply because it was flagged as likely AI, but after sorting through it all, I'm more comfortable that it's all unacceptable).

Thanks for flagging this to me, and please feel free to send cleanup my way. The instructor in this case is pretty has been pretty good with this, and hopefully things will work better this term. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:45, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Ian, thanks for replying. Are you saying that most or all of the content added to the C-3PO page is likely AI-generated? OrdinaryOtter (talk) 00:24, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@OrdinaryOtter It's my suspicion, but I can't prove it. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:35, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ian! Just wanted to say thanks for welcoming me. I look forward to working with you this quarter!

Best,

Athena Atnvilla (talk) 19:22, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Atnvilla! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:09, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]