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Hi sir, I want to contact you. I need some help for wikipedia articles. Pls reply Monty.9801 (talk) 15:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi sir, Really I need you support sir,Can you tell me how to contact you.? Please reply Rahu2023 (talk • 23:49, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

@Rahu2023: It's much easier to contribute to Wikipedia by adding well-researched information to current articles. Writing a new article is hard. And when you have a relationship to the subject, it is nearly impossible to write an objective article. Also, not everything is notable enough to belong in Wikipedia. It must already have been written about in reliable objective places. If you want specific help, one of the best places to go is the Teahouse. I've put a note on your talk page with information on how to use the Teahouse. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:58, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you sir Rahu2023 (talk) 15:45, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Rsjaffe,

I do a lot of work with expiring drafts and you probably know from your work as a patroller that many drafts are actually rudimentary autobiographies written by new editors. I often see that you have posted the template warning about writing autobiographies and you seem to be one of the few editors who posts this particular notice. Most notices I see posted on the talk pages of these young editors are generic warnings when what they really need to know is that Wikipedia is not a social media platform that encourages personal profiles. It's a matter of misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia, not vandalism or even self-promotion.

I find that in 99% of the cases, once editors are informed about this, they don't try to do it a second time. I wish more patrollers would use this specific template about autobiographies through Twinkle but perhaps they don't know that it exists. Any way, I appreciate you alerting newbies to the fact that it's not appropriate to write an article about oneself on the project, even in Draft space. Thanks again for all of your work and have a great New Years! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank for your kind words. And happy New Year’s to you, too. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:34, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

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Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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BloxyColaSweet (talk) 06:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

I saw you note on Draft:Matt Coffy Band My page got immediately rejected, you mentioned that someone like yourself or another person can edit and can you repost it "neutrally"? do you have a suggestion of anyone who may want to help Mattguitar99 (talk) 21:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Read and follow the Wikipedia conflict of interest guide. That should help you rewrite this article in a more neutral tone. Also, you need to address the issues listed in the rejection. Specifically, finding and footnoting significant independent reliable sources. You can clink on some of the highlighted terms in the rejection message to get more info. Ultimately, only certain topics merit inclusion, and if you cannot establish the notability of this band, it should not be included in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a place to get noticed; it is a place to be discussed once it has already been noticed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:56, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Saw this in a popup when I mouse-overed your name. Congratulations on 45k! jp×g 06:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:44, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, Rory,

I've come across a couple of articles you tagged as having been created with AI and I just wondered how you coud tell this was true. They weren't sourced and were pretty vague in their content but I was wondering if there was a script or tool you used or whether it was a judgment on your part. I work a lot with draft articles these days and it would be helpful to be able to tell whether or not the content was original. Thank you! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

There are several tools I use. The first is made by the company that produces ChatGPT. It is based on an earlier version but seems to work well. I don't count it as AI-created unless the certainty is above 99%. It usually is above 99.9%. There isn't a bell-curve distribution of readings. Most are either close to 0% fake (that is, human-produced) or 99.98% fake (LLM model, e.g., ChatGPT produced). I've never had anyone argue that the tag was incorrect, and I've probably tagged about 40 articles so far.

The tool is at https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/. I paste in the text, omitting headings and inline ref tags. A second detector, if you're interested, is https://detector.dng.ai/. I almost always just use the first. Sometimes the AI text is embedded within other text (e.g., a custom written opening paragraph), in which case I omit the custom-written text when testing.

I've been looking for "tells" before testing. The text is more "lifeless" than human text typically is, tends to have uniform length sentences, and may have a paragraph at the end that is a summary paragraph. The text is also unlikely to have in-line references. This doesn't catch all of them but tends to be a high-likelihood way of finding them. Some of these AI-generated articles also have AI-generated references. The references are almost always fake: the AI confabulates reasonable-sounding references! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:49, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm just stumbling across this after a heads-up in the newsroom for The Signpost. We included a teaser about AI generated articles in a recent issue. Can you tell me how to find the articles you tagged? ☆ Bri (talk) 16:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

@Bri Search for hastemplate:AI-generated in article and draftspace. I think several of them did make it to article space but were then draftified. I'd have to go through the edit history to figure out which ones those were. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:39, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Also, a couple have had the template removed after the author re-edited the page to remove the AI-generated text. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Here we go: Draft:Nordic states game industry was in article space. It was subsequently moved to Draft. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:41, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer to the draft. Do you have a personal reaction to the quality of the generated articles? Briefly, are you for or against this method of creation? ☆ Bri (talk) 16:46, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Strongly against. These language generators are good at stringing together reasonable-sounding text, but:

1. Don't rely solely on what Wikipedia recognizes as reliable sources.

2. Don't have a sense of what is real and what is fake.

3. Will fabricate information to fill in gaps.

4. Cannot identify where any specific bit of "information" came from.

So the text can fail WP:RS and WP:V, yet may look very convincing.

However, they're good at helping to break "writer's block", by giving an example of how to write something. So I see having some text generated by ChatGPT would be helpful as a writing prompt, but without using any of the generated text directly—just looking at it and then writing a well-researched article similar to the prompt. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:06, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Cool, let's follow up more at The Newsroom, I see one of the other editors contacted you by email and I'm not sure who was first (doesn't really matter now). ☆ Bri (talk) 21:11, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Before I do anything else, could you affirm that it's OK if I use the conversation above in The Signpost as a mini interview? Also, do you prefer we refer to you by the name on your userpage, your on-Wiki username, or both? ☆ Bri (talk) 21:44, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

OK, to use conversation. Refer to me with both username and my real name (Rory Jaffe). — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

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Did you message me about this page? You were wondering if I have written wikipages before? I assume you see my history, yes? Davejenk1ns (talk) 18:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

It was in error. I had put a speedy delete tag on the page but then withdrew it. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:41, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay thanks Davejenk1ns (talk) 03:47, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed that you had deleted the discussion I had started in ANI, but I had requested earlier in the day for it not to be archived and I think it may have been overlooked by mistake.

Is there any way to have it opened back up so that I can address the users I had mentioned in the request above? I also think I owe the original user an apology, and wanted to try to do that in the ANI post, if possible. Thank you!

Awshort (talk) 04:00, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't think I deleted anything there. I certainly wasn't trying to. Check the page history to see who deleted or archived it. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 04:07, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

I noticed your comment (diff) regarding foreign-language text in Draft:Rubricaire. May I ask you if there is a feed or category or batch report or something which listed this, or can you tell me how you found this draft? I believe the process/report/category concerned may have an error that needs to be corrected, as this Draft never should have been listed as needing attention.

With limited exceptions for content that is *never* permitted anywhere on Wikipedia (WP:LIBEL, WP:COPYVIO, etc.), please do not warn a user on their Talk page about problems in unsubmitted Drafts, including no references, bad references, empty sections, misleading information, inaccurate information, essay-like material, bad formatting, inscrutable text, machine translation, bad translation, wrong language, incorrect spelling, grammar, or syntax, MOS violations, or any of that stuff. That's what a draft is for, so you can develop the article without worrying about content that does not (yet) meet Wikipedia policies and guideline standards. Friendly comments at Draft talk:ArticleName with ideas of how to improve the draft are always welcome. In the particular case linked above, 15-year editor Elinruby with dozens of created articles (including many translations) to their credit hardly needs to be reminded that this is English Wikipedia, and telling him to translate foreign text comes off as patronizing, or a bit insulting.

Please do let me know how you ended up at that draft, and I will follow up and try to ensure that Drafts are not mistagged for this type of attention. I appreciate your looking out for the quality of Drafts, and I'm aware there's a backlog, and your work evaluating Drafts is very important, so carry on, and thanks for all your efforts! Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 22:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

oh he's an ok guy, he did apologize. But yes this was some sort of patrol, probably NPP. Not particularly mad at him. It was just an unfortunate algorithm, which to their credit NPP has adjusted, just not enough. Basically anything over an hour is the new parameter. The other problem is that you get this message if the article contains any foreign language at all, even if it's small as this was. It could use some fine-tuning, as a technical note. Elinruby (talk) 23:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I did make a mistake by templating it—I thought it had been mistakenly stopped mid-translation and wanted to bring it to their attention. Should have just left a note. No algorithm involved, I’ve recently been looking for new evidence of LLM/AI misuse, and just ran across that page. In terms of actions, have been primarily identifying LLM pages and using a template I helped develop that explains the issue with LLMs, as I’ve seen lots of naive use that started leaking into article space and wanted to help people understand the problem upstream of that, as that would stop them from wasting their time with LLMs, which are woefully unsuited for anyone other than a sophisticated user. I’ve markedly reduced my activity in this sphere, as a policy is closer to proposal stage and people in general are starting to hear better-balanced reporting about the benefits and drawbacks of LLMs, as opposed to the unalloyed hype we initially were being fed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 04:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

If so, iy's not doing a good job at all. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:39, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, Rsjaffe,

I'm just coming across some drafts you tagged in January as probably being the result of an AI program like ChatGPT and I noticed that you haven't edited in quite a few weeks. I hope everything is okay and you are just taking a well-deserved summer break. But I hope to run into you in the near future on the project. You are missed! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:56, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice message. I’m taking a break for good reasons: lots of traveling and other good things. I’ll eventually rotate back to working on Wikipedia, once my life gets more boring again. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:33, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Rsjaffe,

My name is Dr. Tim Koskie and I am a researcher at the Centre for Media Transition (CMT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). We are conducting a study on the implications of content-generating AI systems such as ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia, and are approaching you because you have participated in discussions on this topic on Wikimedia pages. If you are interested, we would like to invite you to participate in our study. It would involve joining either a focus group discussion or an interview (around 1 hour), in person at Wikimania in Singapore if you are going to be there, or online at a future date. At these sessions we would ask you questions about how you think generative AI will impact Wikipedia, as well as about the kinds of work you do on Wikipedia.

The project is funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund grant programme. You can find out more about the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Implications_of_ChatGPT_for_knowledge_integrity_on_Wikipedia If you are interested, let me know and I will forward you some more detailed information on the project. Tbkoskie (talk) 01:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2900 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles. Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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