User talk:Mprictor

Hello, I'm Frost. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Sơn Tây campaign because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Frost 09:15, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello Frost. The existing article on the 1883 Son Tay Campaign is underdone. It lacks a primary reference - Admiral Courbet's after-action report to the Minister of Colonies. It also lacks any sort of firsthand validation of the narrative. The linked article includes primary references and firsthand terrain analysis Mprictor (talk) 12:14, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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Hi there 👋

I’m not formally reviewing your draft, because honestly at this stage I would be leaning towards denial, but wanted to check some things first. You’ve made a really good start on the article, and I can see you’ve tried to get a good range of sources, but the first source, the travel company, I’m not sure if it counts as reliable. The second and third sources seem reliable, but appear to be first person accounts, which would make them primary sources, not secondary, and then the fourth source is a blog, which leads to issues with reliability again, although dude seems to know his stuff.

The issue is that, in order to prove “notability”, we need at least a couple of decently reliable, independent, secondary sources, which treat the topic of the article at length. If you could find and cite some sources which would more solidly fit the criteria, then that would be really helpful towards getting this article accepted. I’ll look back in in a week or two and see how you’re getting on. Good luck and keep up the good work 👍 Absurdum4242 (talk) 15:04, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LR.127 was:

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:

• 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
  

Please address these issues. The best way is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

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LR.127 (talk) 12:51, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

AI checkers were a bit borderline on this one, but the comments above on your talk page decided it for me, for now. Still needs work, but it can be done! Cheers. LR.127 (talk) 12:53, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Your edit to Draft:Battle of Phủ Tông Hoá, Tonkin, 25 July 1948 has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. tjd (he) ^T/C 21:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Mprictor! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 21:25, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

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