User talk:ScandalousSkink

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Hello, I'm Lynch44. An edit that you recently made to Bodie, California seemed to be generated using a large language model (an "AI chatbot" or other application using such technology). Text produced by these applications is not allowed on Wikipedia, and may contain factually inaccurate statements, fictitious citations, or other problems. You should instead read reliable sources and then summarize those in your own words. Your edit may have been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or ask your questions at the Teahouse, a friendly place for new users. Thanks. Lynch44 18:33, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I use a local Python script to help format my markup but it does not utilize an LLM. ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:43, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Malgosha. I noticed that you changed content about a living or recently deceased person on Ericka Huggins, but didn't support your changes with a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict policy on how we write about living people to keep such articles accurate and clear, so your change has been removed and archived in the page history for now. If you think I made a mistake or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my talk page. Thank you! Malgosha (talk) 18:34, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I’ve fixed that ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:42, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Apache OpenOffice, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources to see how to add references to an article. Thank you. Malgosha (talk) 18:38, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Did you even fully review my changes? It included references and was 100%! accurate ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:40, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Some portions of your edit didn't have citations. Malgosha (talk) 18:41, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

That could be an error on my part I will double check those now and apologize ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:42, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you edit Wikipedia using a large language model, which is prohibited. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:43, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Python script doesn’t at all utilize LLM. ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:44, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

What are you pulling your text from? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:50, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

json file locally ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:52, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

How is that json file created? Where is the source for the Python script? ‑‑gurkubondinn 20:57, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I wrote the content in advanced if you check my edits none was malicious or inaccurate and followed content policy. If you can point out otherwise I’d appreciate it and if using a python script I wrote isn’t ok that I wasn’t aware of. ScandalousSkink (talk) 18:53, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

If all you are doing is posting stuff you yourself have written as a human without LLM assistance, then there is still potentially an issue you should be aware of: please read Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bot-like editing. If you are using the script for anything other than posting, then we need to know the workflow (at a high level) to validate that LLMs aren't creeping into the workflow (some innocuous tools these days have LLM components).

I still have concerns you are using LLM/AI somewhere in your workflow because there are some characteristics of the text that suggest LLMs. Note that policy is that LLMs cannot be used (with two very narrow exceptions not applicable here) to produce or alter text for Wikipedia. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:00, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm also asking for help from others with experience in this area There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:AI noticeboard regarding an AI cleanup investigation which may be related to you. The thread is ScandalousSkink.. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:02, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Ericka Huggins, please review your changes before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts.

• In the Source (wikitext) editor, review your changes by pressing the Show preview button below the edit box (left image);
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This will show you what the page would look like with your changes, so you can make any needed refinements before actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you do this before saving. If you have any questions, please contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 18:53, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@ScandalousSkink I notice that you are continuously replacing the lead (and only the lead) with what appear to be full rewrites of the article. Ignoring that changes at that scale should be discussed on the article talk page first, you're leaving behind the rest of the first article which is creating a mess for others to clean up.

To try and demonstrate what I'm talking about since you appear to be unaware that you're doing this:

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The beginning of the first sentence, the end of the first sentence.

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A complete sentence rewrite by ScandalousSkink., the end of the first sentence.

ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 19:03, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

OH, is that why their edits broke Oysterville, Washington? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:05, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Yup, looks like it. Though again, I think a full article rewrite, especially from a new editor(I'm electing to not participate in the AI discussion above) still should be discussed on the talk page either way. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 19:07, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I was going to review more of the changes, but I think I might be out of my depth here. From a glance, these changes seem to mostly be improvements, but I will leave that to the folks at AINB to determine in the cleanup effort. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 19:11, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Oh wait, I see that you're editing on mobile, that's the problem. When you press the edit button, you're only editing the lead. You need to click the three dots at the top right and select "Edit full page", otherwise you run into the issue I described above. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 19:05, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Jaimie Robinson when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:27, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for jumping on you so hard with the AI/LLM concerns. As you can see from my posting at WP:AINB the pattern of editing was highly unusual, and is something we see with llm usage. I made clear in that opening statement that it was more about the editing pattern than the content that raised alarms. When edits occur quickly, we tend to react quicker, as the problems, if any, multiply faster when unchecked.

It is clear you want to improve the encyclopedia. My suggestion is to take the feedback here (and on AINB) to improve your editing, then edit a single page at a time, waiting for a while before going on to the next page, as that allows detection of issues (such as the pasting into the lead) and correction before errors reach more pages.

As stated at AINB, we'd also like to see the python script to understand better what you are doing to your text. (It's best to respond to that query at AINB, rather than here, as that is where people will expect to see the info). — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:27, 10 June 2026 (UTC)