Absurdum4242
4th Galician Uhlans
editI disagree with your reasons for declining the article. Currently, it already has three academic sources: Thomas Mocharitsh's diploma thesis on Ruthenian military terminology, Evan Samborowski's paper on Galician military units, and Alexei Lithavorik's Russian language research on Austro-Hungarian units on the Eastern Front. I can't find many in-depth sources online, even in German, but my plan was to add more to the article when they became available
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AfC review of Waitohu Stream
editKia ora @Absurdum4242, thanks for all your work at AfC! Just wanted to give you a courtesy heads up as the AfC reviewer of Waitohu Stream, that I've had to tag is as WP:G15, as over half the the references appeared to be hallucinated. It's a shame because it's a good article otherwise, and at first glance it looks like it an easy accept, so I don't blame you for not double checking all the refs in-depth! nil nz 01:33, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi there 👋
- that’s a real shame that there were hallucinated sources. You noted in your deletion explanation on the page that the sources were introduced after the article was first written… do you know whether they were introduced before, or after I approved the AfC? Not arguing with you that they were hallucinated (though I kind of wish I had a way to check now the article is deleted, stuff especially moves / renames articles, so it’s a real pain sometimes keeping the links current). I do actually make a point of checking all refs, and removing ones which either don’t add anything, or don’t actually say what the citation suggests (a perennial problem 😆), so I would hate to think that I missed any, or pushed through it too quickly.
- Likewise, thanks for all your hard work checking stuff like this out and working to make sure that what’s on Wikipedia is actually solid. Have a great day. Absurdum4242 (talk) 06:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- They were unfortunately – the first few were real, with the hallucinated refs not starting until about a third of the way down the reflist. Only one of the links lead to an actual 404 page, with the majority just being homepage urls (e.g. "stuff.co.nz") rather than full urls, so it was easy to click on one and AGF that you were redirected. It wasn't until I manually searched for the article titles on each site (and the book title on the publisher's website) that I realised things were awry, but I was all set to mark it as reviewed up to that point 😩 nil nz 03:04, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
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