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Close Paraphrasing in AI-generated articles about Mosquitos

Hi all, if there is a better venue for this question please point me in the right direction. I have recently been working on cleaning up a slate of articles about Mosquito species that appear to have been generated by ChatGPT or a similar LLM. I have been focusing on dealing with hallucinated sources and unverified information, but I also noticed that in many cases the LLM seems to be producing extremely close paraphrases of the text on the cited sources. For example on the article Aedes squamiger the description, distribution, behavior, and ecology sections are very close paraphrases of the text found here and here. Is this appropriate? Copyright issues are outside my normal wheelhouse so I thought I would seek guidance here. -- LWG ^talk 17:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

World Relief

hi, World Relief currently has the page contents hidden due to a copyright investigation, however I'm not seeing the investigation ongoing here or the result. I'm not sure how to search, maybe its been overlooked? thanks JMWt (talk) 15:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

JMWt, Hello, thanks for bringing this up. I've gone ahead and just cleaned the article myself. It looks like the editor who placed the tag, never listed the page here. In this case, the article should've been listed on this page. I'm not really sure why the editor didn't list the page here, my guess is the editor didn't know. The4lines |||| (talk) 16:16, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's also another article which was never listed, Rafael Barrientos (musician). Tenshi! (Talk page) 17:27, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned. The4lines |||| (talk) 15:47, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WMF request: How to measure rate of copyright problems?

Hi all! The Foundation is working on developing a feature to help reduce the rate at which newcomers introduce copyright problems in their edits and assist you all with patrolling for those edits.

When the feature is deployed in the future, we plan to evaluate its effectiveness by checking whether it reduces the number of edits that are reverted due to copyright issues. In order to do that, we're looking to develop a baseline measure of the current rate of edits with copyright problems. We'd love your help with this.

So, a question: If you were to compile a list of all edits on English Wikipedia that were identified as having copyright problems, what signals would you use to make that list? Is there language used or pages linked to in edit summaries that'd be relevant? To what extent does edits that were revision-deleted with a summary linking to WP:RD1 capture the list? Thanks much for your help!

P.S. We'll be back soon to more formally introduce the feature and seek your input on its development. But feedback is always welcome at any point.

Cheers, Sdkb-WMF ^talk 04:39, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A related request has been made to share examples of phrases used to indicate reversion or deletion of copyright violating material at phab:T402601 by 9 September. I'm happy to copy across anything listed in this thread by those who aren't comfortable with contributing to Phabricator themselves. Thryduulf (talk) 14:18, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion around filing

Hi, I just removed some promotional material from the Yunogo Onsen article. I was unsure if it was a backwards copy or not, but after checking Earwig and the IA capture here (from 1 January 2011) it appears the article had copied the Okayama prefecture website. The Yunogo Onsen article was created on 29 March 2011. Sorry for doing this out of order, should I still file a copyright problem here? Thank you, Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 07:04, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sarsenet; if you believe that the matter is too complicated or not completely resolved, you can always file a listing here. However, since it seems like you have both identified the issue and resolved the copying, there's no need to list the article here. You may find {{cv-revdel}} useful in getting an admin's attention for revision deletion in the future, but I have revdeled Yunogo Onsen for you. Good job identifying it! Sennecaster (Chat) 21:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Advice pages rework

I've been working on rewriting WP:CPAA to be much less wordy and noticed that the /Advice for clerks page is basically the exact same as the /Advice for admins page and the only difference is that the clerks one tells you how to request admins to do things for you. I'm going to merge them together and rename it; something like Copyright problems/Instructions? Sennecaster (Chat) 21:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]