User talk:Evan.Dowell
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee (November 28)
Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Their outputs usually have multiple issues that prevent them from meeting our guidelines on writing articles. These include:
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
- Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
- Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
- Essay-like writing
- Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
- Close paraphrasing
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Hello, Evan.Dowell!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! MediaKyle (talk) 22:48, 28 November 2025 (UTC) |
- MediaKyle,
- I would implore you to show me specifically where my article was written by a language learning model. I wrote this entire article because the OFCC is one topic of my current dissertation project regarding the landing and expansion of subsea cables on the Oregon coast (please see my university page here https://geography.berkeley.edu/evan-dowell). While my research methods include finding non-secondary source information, I made perfectly sure to use only secondary sources for this article, per Wikipedia's guidelines. I understand that filtering out writing from language models like Chat GPT is a common issue these days. (Trust me, I've read my share of students' AI generated essays). But I find it very insulting that my article would be flagged for possibly including "vague statements" and "hallucinations." Adding insult to injury is that my article was flagged, given the loads of poor writing and incoherent sentences that abound in articles on Wikipedia. So, again, please point out specific instances in my article you feel are generated by by AI, and I can show exactly where the information is coming from, or rewrite to fit Wikipedia's guidelines.
- -Evan Evan.Dowell (talk) 00:13, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee (December 6)
This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.
The comment the reviewer left was:
Articles on Wikipedia must be based on published sources (although offline/print sources are acceptable), so you need to remove the parts of this draft that are based on unpublished letters. Parts of this draft also consist of original research rather than summarising published secondary sources, for instance the paragraph beginning
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
The terms in the OFCC agreements adhere to established international laws that grant equal use of the seas to both fishermen and cable companies and protect existing subsea cables..... Substantial sections of the draft are also unsourced. The organisation is potentially notable, but this draft is not ready in its current state.
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- MCE89,
- Thank you for the specific feedback. I will edit accordingly. Evan.Dowell (talk) 21:40, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee (January 27)
This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:
The comment the reviewer left was:
- in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
- reliable
- secondary
- strictly independent of the subject
As the prior comment states, this draft is not supported by enough reliable sourcing to establish that this organization is notable enough for its own article. Few sources establish significance coverage of the Committee directly and in-depth.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit it after they have been resolved.
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
- If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.