User talk:Miniapolis/Archives/2025/October

Hello Miniapolis,

Thank you very much for taking the time to review the Kratošija article. I would like to clarify that the text is not AI-generated. I personally wrote it, using published scientific sources. In fact, I am also the author of the article on Kratošija in Serbian Wikipedia, which I then adapted and expanded into English with additional references.

I am very open to copyediting suggestions that could help improve grammar, tone, or neutrality. Your guidance is much appreciated.

All the best, VitisArchivum (talk) 20:48, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

You can add a link to the sr.wp article. Other editors have been waiting for copyedits at WP:GOCE/REQ; please list it there, and it will be copyedited. All the best, Miniapolis 00:52, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Miniapolis. I will do it.

Hello Miniapolis,

Thank you very much for your suggestions regarding the Kratošija article.

I am still working on improvements, and I will certainly add the interlanguage link to the Serbian version, as you recommended.

Regards,

VitisArchivum (talk) 08:45, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

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Hello Miniapolis,

I know you are one of the experienced coordinators of the Guild of Copy Editors, and I truly appreciate the time and dedication you give to improving articles on Wikipedia.

I would be very grateful if you could spare a moment to help with a copyedit of Draft:Kratošija. The draft was recently moved to draftspace with the explanation "language/grammar problems". All statements are supported by reliable references, so I kindly ask that the references not be altered — please leave them as they are. I only need help with grammar, clarity, and encyclopedic tone.

Thank you very much in advanced, for your time and kindness! VitisArchivum (talk) 10:00, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I see that the page has been returned to mainspace (thanks, Jonesey95, and I found two more dablinks :-)); you can list it for copyediting at WP:GOCE/REQ. I smell LLM use, however (puffery is generally a dead giveaway), and for that reason am concerned about your insistence on not touching the references; irrelevant or non-existent sources are other characteristics of LLMs, and violate WP's verifiability policy. I'm surprised that the page does not appear in any other-language Wikipedias. All the best, Miniapolis 18:39, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I did not examine the page for LLM output, but feel free to tag it as suspicious. Dead DOIs are sometimes an indicator, but I checked one by searching for the title, and I found it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:42, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Jonesey95; I need to re-read WP:LLM to find out how to check, and will keep dead DOIs in mind. Joy, Earwig says that copyvio is "unlikely". All the best, Miniapolis 18:54, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing is also a fun read, as long as it doesn't get you too depressed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:02, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I took a quick look at it. IMO, AI is an oxymoron (with an emphasis on "moron" :-)). All the best, Miniapolis 19:10, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

BTW, just to cross-reference a followup to this: User talk:Jonesey95#Request for copyedit: Draft:Kratošija. --Joy (talk) 11:18, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for beginning the copyedit :) I just want to make clear to use the term organ over body, as in state organ (not state body). They do not mean exactly the same and it might bring confusion, I feel! Otherwise, great improvement to the lead! TheUzbek (talk) 17:41, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, but I'm a native English speaker and have only seen "organ" (in the sense of a body) in communist terminology; it seems to be a translation issue, as you noted in the lead's explanatory footnote. Miniapolis 17:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Indeed, organ is a communist term just like branch (as in government branch) is a liberal term. In the context of Marxist-Leninist political theory, the state is conceived of as an organism or a machine. Its various parts—the legislature, executive, judiciary, etc.—are seen as "organs" that perform specific functions for the whole body politic.The term comes from the German Staatsorgan and the Russian государственный орган (gosudarstvennyy organ), used by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The metaphor of the state as a body with specialized organs is central.

"Body" is a more general English word for an organization or group of people. In this sense, a "state body" is any organization that is part of the state apparatus. It lacks the specific theoretical and functional connotations of "organ." It doesn't evoke the same image of a specialized part of a larger, living organism. TheUzbek (talk) 18:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not going to continue this copyedit. In English, acronyms take an indefinite article as if the letters were spoken (SSOP, ess-ess-oh-pee); that was why I changed "a" to "an". You're not a native English speaker, AFAIK, and I find it odd that you don't defer to someone who is. I make mistakes, but not this time. Miniapolis 19:55, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)