Talk:Indianapolis

If a List of fiction set in Indianapolis is ever created, Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford [novel], An American Crime (movie), maybe Close Encounters of the Third Kind (movie), and The Fault in Our Stars should be included. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:F93C:2133:1B30:546E (talk) 23:15, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

The infobox has been showing a supposed "Interactive map of Indianapolis" that actually highlights the entirety of Marion County, not Indianapolis, due to some confusion in OpenStreetMap that dates back to 2020. Under Unigov, the Indianapolis city limits excludes "excluded" cities and towns such as Lawrence, but the map did not reflect this fact. Moreover, the OSM community has recently come to the conclusion that the included towns might need to be excluded too for technical reasons. In other words, OSM has been departing from the Census Bureau's "Indianapolis city" boundary but will be a little closer to it. The city's geometry has just been corrected in OSM, and d:Q6346#P402 has been updated. Therefore, the next time Wikimedia Maps refreshes its copy of OSM data, the infobox will show a map of Indianapolis that matches the area described in Indianapolis (balance). Minh Nguyễn ^💬 00:11, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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Hi - I have tagged this page as containing AI-generated text, specifically the text from this revision here. (Other diffs may apply, I have only checked this one.) The text contains many indicators that it may be AI-generated (see WP:AISIGNS for more information on these) and also introduces several attendant problems. Most of these have to do with source-to-text integrity -- per WP:V, all statements must be backed up, explicitly, by the sources they are cited to. The edit, however, changes meaning in many places; here is a quick spot check.

• Undue emphasis on significance: The edit tacks on some editorializing -- reflecting broader patterns of industrial decline in the Midwestern United States -- when the original text simply says that it had industrial decline. For that matter, the source only appears to verify Indianapolis is located in the Rust Belt (unless the decline is mentioned in the part of the article not in this clipping). Thus, this is WP:SYNTH.
• Indianapolis hosted more than 60 automakers in the early 20th century - The source does not explicitly say when Indianapolis hosted more than 60 automakers, only that it did at some point have that many. The original text correctly reflects this; the new text is WP:SYNTH.
• Depending on methodology, the sector employs between 21,200 and 28,700 workers across nearly 350 companies in the region. - This was already problematic because I don't know where the 21,200 figure comes from; it's not in the source nor do any numbers seem to obviously add up to something like 21,200. But either way, the source appears to contain only one "methodology," if you can call it that.
• Indianapolis has experienced growth in high-technology employment since the 2010s, reflecting broader economic diversification trends. Again, the source does not explicitly link this to "reflecting broader economic diversification trends," or for that matter diversification in Indianapolis. "Since the 2010s" is also incorrect; the source states the growth occurred in the 2010s.

This is just a spot-check and there may be other discrepancies. The root issue, though, is that the text has become unmoored from its sourcing. Gnomingstuff (talk) 22:20, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gnomingstuff: Thanks for raising these concerns. I'm also concerned about some other edits in this article including , , and some others. It might be best to restore a clean revision prior to these changes. @IndyTaylor: Can you please clarify if you have used LLMs to write content for this article, and if so, when that started? Thank you. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 02:37, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

@Daniel Quinlan: Yes, thank you for bringing this to my attention. Indeed, I used ChatGPT to refine some original content. Upon closer inspection, this was a clear mistake. I can restore the sections to their clean form (prior to these edits) expeditiously. IndyTaylor (talk) 02:55, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

@Gnomingstuff, @Daniel Quinlan: I've completed a manual review of my previous edits and restored the affected sections to be as they were on December 26, 2025. In other words, all AI-assisted language has been cleared. Thank you again for bringing this to my attention and please don't hesitate to flag anything I might have missed. IndyTaylor (talk) 04:59, 1 April 2026 (UTC)