User talk:OldPalChummus

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I was happy to see those big green diffs on my watchlist when you expanded several railroad articles significantly, like Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad. I've been gradually trying to get to them all, but I'm very glad to see you're working on them too. Keep up the good work! Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:15, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! OldPalChummus (talk) 03:53, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Would you be able to add coordinates to File:East Junction Branch South.jpg and File:East Junction Branch East Providence.jpg? I'm not able to place exactly where along the branch they are. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:46, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

I have added the coordinates to the descriptions of both images. OldPalChummus (talk) 03:09, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Those are actually abandoned sections of the East Providence Branch (Valley Falls–East Providence), which is confusingly now connected to the East Junction Branch for P&W use. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:43, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Ah, good to know! Thanks! OldPalChummus (talk) 03:53, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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It really isn't necessary to add South Coast to every article located within this informal region. Moreover, there is absolutely no reason to add explicit details about what places are included and not included in the South Coast. Please take a moment to read WP:USCITIES. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:21, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

West Island (Rhode Island), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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OLI 08:15, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Hey mate I felt like doing you a solid as both you and me are relatively new editors.(me more so then you) But I do have recomendations for your new article. Add wikilinks to it and add categories. We dont want it to be orphanned and disconected to the rest of the wiki. Dont stop expanding it just because its been made. I made this mistake with some of my first articles. (I built them off of a redirect, and they got deleted) OLI 08:18, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

My apologies for reverting your edit wholesale - I was in the middle of responding to the good article review and your edits conflicted with my edits to address the reviewer's concerns. Please feel free to participate at the review page. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:53, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Frederick S. Peck, from its old location at User:OldPalChummus/sandbox2. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 21:38, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Whittenton Branch, from its old location at User:OldPalChummus/sandbox6. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 00:46, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

You should be eligible to use The Wikipedia Library, it's a great place to find more sources for articles. I particularly recommend newspaperarchive and newspapers.com. You may be able to find enough additional information to get those drafts about branches accepted through AfC. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:14, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely do that! OldPalChummus (talk) 17:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Myles Standish Industrial Park, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 02:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:West Bridgewater Branch, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Mount Hope Branch, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:06, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Mount Hope Branch".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:33, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, OldPalChummus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Capitol Corridor".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! DreamRimmer bot II (talk) 21:24, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

In general, it's best not to close a request move that you initiated (unless no one else commented) or have commented on. The Dean Street move is probably fine since I was the only person who commented, but in general it's best to have an uninvolved reviewer close the discussion. Best, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:40, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Compass Rail, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It started today on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:46, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Compass Rail".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi OldPalChummus. Thank you for your work on Wrentham Branch Railroad. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 04:00, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to let you know I made Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad into a redirect, so anywhere else you see a link to it you don't need to go in and link Valley Falls Branch and then pipe it to say Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad. Thanks for creating the article! Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:57, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks! OldPalChummus (talk) 16:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi OldPalChummus, I appreciate your efforts to create articles about Massachusetts railway lines. I'm concerned that you may be using an LLM (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, etc) to write these articles without properly checking them. All of them contain significant citation errors – nonexistent documents, incorrect pagination from real sources, numbers that don't match sources – and some have associated factual errors as well. These are known issues with using LLMs; see WP:LLM for more guidance. I request that you please hold off from creating any more articles until you have gone back and fixed all the errors in your recent creations. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:27, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

@OldPalChummus and Pi.1415926535: This is about the article Wrentham Branch Railroad. I must admit the WP:G15 speedy deletion rationale is something I only found out about recently. OK, let's look at might what happen at a notional Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wrentham Branch Railroad.

• Delete: WP:BEFORE done, and the only things that mention it are the Wikipedia article itself and pictures on Commons
• Keep: ample evidence that that now long gone railroad actually existed - please see this from the State Library of Massachusetts, and this from a book published in 1886 about the history of MA that quite clearly mentions the Wrentham Branch Railroad.

And so on.

This reply took me about thirty minutes to type up.

Peter in Australia aka Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:53, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what your point is here. The issues with the articles have zero to do with notability. It's that they had misrepresented or fake references and LLM content that caused their deletion. I'm already planning to create one of the deleted articles (at a different title) as it's notable and has been on my to do list for a while. If you can find the sourcing, you're more than welcome to recreate Wrentham Branch Railroad. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:46, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing creating new pages or uploading new files for for creating articles with AI-hallucinated sources.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

I've blocked you because it is crucial that we not have editors running around creating articles with sources that don't exist. It's one of the most destructive kinds of misuse of Wikipedia, even if not done in bad faith. I have no objection to any admin unblocking you if you can show that you understand this issue. Please note that you remain able to edit all pages, just not to create new ones. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 12:52, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

The article Attleboro Branch Railroad has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

see talk page

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Attleboro Branch Railroad is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:24, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:MBTA Regional Rail Modernization Program, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

OldPalChummus (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)

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Request reason:

I recognize the issues brought forth and the severity of using LLM in regard to sources and citation materials, especially in regard to "ghost" sources that arise from LLM, which are blatant misrepresentations of the sources themselves or don't exist at all, and ultimately ruin the integrity of new and existing articles. I understand LLM is not a shortcut when it comes to the due diligence of sources. I appreciate the community's concern and input to help me understand these policies more, and I regret if it has caused needless confusion or concern. I intend on abstaining from LLM assistance in any form moving forward, no more shortcuts.

Accept reason:

I'm lifting your block, as you do appear to be aware of the issues around LLM use and why the block was needed. Pease be aware if you do create any more articles using an LLM you'll likely recieve another, and I do not want that to happen. CoconutOctopus talk 21:02, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Courtesy ping for @Tamzin: CoconutOctopus talk 21:03, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, OldPalChummus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Pop-Up Metro, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Hello, OldPalChummus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "sandbox3".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:17, 30 January 2026 (UTC)