Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Policies

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At the onset of the 2020s AI boom, Wikipedia's existing content policies already addressed many of the emerging AI-related concerns that prompted other platforms and organizations to adopt a dedicated new policy; consequently, Wikipedia has no single all-encompassing, detailed "AI use policy".

A dedicated guideline does exist for AI-generated article content: Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models (WP:NEWLLM), comprising one main point: The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, with exceptions for basic copyediting and translation. The latter is covered by another dedicated guideline, Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation (WP:LLMT), requiring the editor to carefully review the output before publishing it in articles.

Still, disparate portions of other policies and guidelines contain certain provisions that are specifically and explicitly about AI-generated content. The most important of these is the speedy deletion criterion Wikipedia:Speedy deletion § G15. LLM-generated pages without human review (WP:G15), which forms the policy basis to speedily delete pages that could only plausibly have been generated by large language models and can be assumed not to have undergone reasonable human review. Seen together, NEWLLM and G15 reflect the project's expectations that large language models are not to be used to write content and that the most clear-cut cases, with no attempt to ensure that it complies with other applicable policies and guidelines, should be speedily deleted.

The rest of those other relevant (albeit non-dedicated) policies and guidelines are listed here as follows (November 2025):

The following are not policies or guidelines, but still have some significance in this context:

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