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Happy editing! – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 20:29, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 20:30, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

LLMs

Are you using LLMs to make your edits? You recently added false information to a biography that looks like it came from ChatGPT. Viriditas (talk) 23:12, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

I've reverted your changes to the Ludwig bio and made a few comments on the DYK nomination page. Please be careful when editing. Viriditas (talk) 23:22, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas: Thank you for your kind feedback and for notifying me. I may understand your reverting of the part I added about his unfinished project, but I cannot understand why you reverted the part I added which was wholly based on the NYTimes source. I will do work on the article and ping you. Thank you again. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

You added the wrong death date, which is a hallmark of LLM use. They tend to get simple facts like that wrong for some reason. Please feel free to add back what you can as long as it is based on a source and is written in your own words. Viriditas (talk) 23:15, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas: I added 31 more sources and took my time to significantly expand the article. I am looking forward to your constructive criticism. If you have any comments or feedback, please put them here in details (where in the article? And what do you think exactly can be improved? instead of reverting the whole edit, which is huge). Thank you. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 19:50, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I won't be reverting. Some of the edits you made are unusual, but could be chalked up to inconsistency. You changed his middle name to an initial (don't think that's standard) and you put BFA in the infobox while placing B.F.A. in the body. Little issues like that, but no big problems to speak of right now. Viriditas (talk) 20:00, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I fixed them. Viriditas (talk) 20:05, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I just spent four hours cleaning up AI/LLM citation errors. Netherzone (talk) 06:51, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for helping to improve and expand the biography on Allan Ludwig. Viriditas (talk) 20:09, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I would like to invite you to keep working on the article and nominate it for GAN when you are done. Viriditas (talk) 20:14, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas: Sure I will keep doing my best and thank you for the Barnstar! RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 15:09, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Multiple citation errors on Alan Ludwig - AI generated?

I've noticed multiple citation errors and some hallucinations in the sourcing of Alan Ludwig. Did you use artificial intelligence AI/LLM to create the citations? Netherzone (talk) 04:28, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

@Netherzone: No! I even used the manual function to cite some of these sources, some of them were in bare URL format originally as PDFs. Please point out exactly to each source and what is wrong with it and I will fix it. Thank you for the constructive criticism. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 16:06, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello RetiredResearchKing123 and thank you for the quick reply, and for contributing to the encyclopedia. Nice to meet you here, and I share your admiration for the work of Alan Ludwig. And special thanks for letting us know the citations were not AI/LLM generated.

If you go through the page history, you will see the edits I made last night. You can click on "compare selected revisions" to see changes.

In a nutshell, Blogs, user submitted-content w/o editorial oversight, book sales sites, auction sites, the purpose of the latter two is to make sales are not considered reliable sources. Citations should use a consistent citation style, for example some of your refs had the first name followed by the last name, where others had last name then first name. It's a good idea to check the reference style currently in the article before adding so many citations. While this is not required, some consider it best practices, and since the article was previously WP:INT and a WP:DYK it makes sense to have a consistent style. I don't think that the lengthy quotations are necessary since readers can simply click on the link in the citation, however if it's an exceptional claim that might be disputed then a longer quote might be necessary. One of these long quotes contained information on how to buy his book, and included the price and was highly promotional/advertorial..

Here's some other examples: This quote if used at all could simply say: Mr. Ludwig and Ms. Forbes were the “founding father and mother” of gravestone studies. This citation points to a personal family Blogspot blog , most blogs are not considered reliable sources and the CiteHighlight tool "red flags" them. Blogspot and Wordpress sites always get "red flagged".

I removed the Capsule Auction refs because it is commercial selling site, a very low quality source whose sole purpose is to sell art. I replaced some of them with reliable sources if they could be found..

I started to replace the Archive Grid citations (some were redundant) with links to the institution where the archival material was held. I think this is a good idea since there's less of a chance of link rot WP:Link rot, and the institution is where the archive is permanently held. This citation pointed to a book selling site (and the info seemed incorrect after I searched the museum collection ]. This one was incorrectly formatted ; it points to a personal blog, but Greil Marcus is a highly regarded cultural critic, so I kept that in after reformatting it.

The "take away" is that the quality and accuracy of a source is more important than the quantity of sources. I truly hope those examples explain why I thought you were using AI/LLM. I'm sorry this is such a long response; please understand its purpose is meant to support constructive improvements to the article. I hope there are no hard feelings.

Here is are some helpful links to some tips about citing sources and what is considered a reliable source. The first is long but very comprehensive, worth book-marking.

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Referencing with RefToolbar
• WP:Citation Style
• Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1
• Help:Referencing for beginners with citation templates

Good luck and happy editing. It's nice to meet another editor interested in the visual arts. Netherzone (talk) 17:53, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

@Netherzone: Thank you for your attention to details. For the quote, it is me who insists on inserting them (usually a brief paragraph) to make it easier for fellow editors when verifying if a source is relevant. Thank you and happy editing. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Felipe Pereda moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Felipe Pereda. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and the sources needed should be independent of Pereda, sites where he has some personal relationship (employee, fellow, member) do not count towards notability. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Boynamedsue (talk) 07:36, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

@Boynamedsue: Thank you for the review and feedback. I believe Pereda meets notability under WP:NACADEMIC, which provides criteria specific to academics; Notably, holding a named/endowed chair (the Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professorship) at a major research university (Harvard). The sourcing concern you raised is valid in general, and I'm happy to strengthen the references as I find more of them.

But I wanted to flag that notability for academics is assessed differently from general biographies. I'd appreciate a second look with NACADEMIC in mind. I moved the article back to Mainspace. Thanks again for your time and for your constructive criticism. Happy editing. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 08:24, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your response. I've had a look at WP:ACADEMIC and I think you are right. I'll reassess now. All the best.Boynamedsue (talk) 08:57, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Just a heads up, the link to his Harvard page is broken, but the profile from Fundación Amigos del Prado confirmed the professorship so I've approved.--Boynamedsue (talk) 09:01, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

I replaced the broken Harvard link with a new one I found https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/felipe-pereda Thank you! RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 09:11, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

No, thank you for pointing out my error. I've not much experience in terms of articles on academics, so signalling the correct policy will help me going forward. All the best.Boynamedsue (talk) 09:19, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi RetiredResearchKing123. Thank you for your work on Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation Is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists. Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for your work on this article. Please add sources for the "ISS Forum roundtable" section. Thanks and have a great day!

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Mariamnei (talk) 09:49, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Mariamnei: Thank you for your feedback, and for your attention to details. Will do it now. RetiredResearchKing123 (talk) 09:51, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Edits to Jeffrey B. Perry

Kudos for creating the article, which fills an important gap in the encyclopedia. However, your recent edits to the article for Jeffrey B. Perry. You've removed, as examples, details of his living in Hoboken that are explicitly listed in an obituary, while adding details about his specific cause and location of death that I don't see in the sources. Where are you getting these details from and why are you making these changes? Am I missing something? Alansohn (talk) 15:08, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi RetiredResearchKing123. Thank you for your work on Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity. Another editor, Chocmilk03, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating this page! A couple of things to be aware of for future (and appreciate Wikipedia is a steep learning curve, there's a lot to be aware of!):

• Be careful with using information from sources that you don't inadvertently run into copyright and plagiarism issues. Any direct quotations must be enclosed in double quotation marks ("). It's also worth having a read of Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing as this is an area where new editors often run into problems.
• More of a style point, we try to avoid too many blue links to common words and phrases (e.g. health, suffering, dignity) as these can get distracting for the reader and aren't actually useful. See the guidance at WP:OL.

I hope that all makes sense, and please reach out if you have any questions. Thanks again!

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Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:18, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

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