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Background disruption sleuthing

So, the graffiti (as far as I can tell) rate on this article is abnormally high in recent months given that it "only" gets 50k views/mo. Does anyone have any clue why? Is it linked anywhere sensitive on- or offsite? Remsense诉 17:10, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remsense It's because "Ideogram" is also the name of a generative AI company (quite popular judging from the size of its Discord server) that offers a free text-to-image model. You'll notice that some of the "graffiti" bears a resemblance to image generation prompts. Malerisch (talk) 09:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Ask a question, get an answer! @Malerisch: thanks. Remsense诉 13:25, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

{{Generative AI editnotice}} is an edit notice template for pages which are about or share names with AI text-to-image services, I'll request that it be added here. Belbury (talk) 17:20, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Innovation at work! Thank you, would've never thought of that. Remsense诉 18:03, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am slightly troubled by the plausibility that the edit notice has somehow caused an increase in the graffiti rate. Really, even though there's a huge red hand, the root cause is clearly minimal English literacy among those attempting to generate pictures using this talk page. Seems the only way to stop it (if we must, though I see minimal cost) is to padlock the talk page too and have a banner pointing to a subpage for unconfirmed editors who wish to to partake in discussion. Remsense诉 17:42, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Over-length opening sentence

My knowledge of linguistics is superficial at best, so this may have more artistic impression than technical merit but would

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek idéa 'idea' + gráphō 'to write') is a symbol that is used within a given writing system to represent an idea or concept in a given language.^[1] (Ideograms are contrasted with phonograms, which indicate sounds of speech and thus independent of any particular language.^[2]) Some ideograms are more arbitrary than others: some are only meaningful assuming preexisting familiarity with some convention; others more directly resemble their signifieds. Ideograms that represent physical objects by visually illustrating them are called pictograms.^[3]^[4]

work better? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So much better, thank you. Remsense ‥ 论 18:54, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hornby, Albert Sydney (1989). "ideograph". In Cowie, Anthony Paul (ed.). Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 616. ISBN 0-19-431136-8.
^ Robertson (2004), pp. 25–27, 38.
^ Robertson (2004), pp. 25–27.
^ pictography at the Encyclopædia Britannica

𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Hornby, Albert Sydney (1989). "ideograph". In Cowie, Anthony Paul (ed.). Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 616. ISBN 0-19-431136-8.

[FOOTNOTERobertson200425–27,_38-2] Robertson (2004), pp. 25–27, 38.

[FOOTNOTERobertson200425–27-3] Robertson (2004), pp. 25–27.

[EBpictography-4] tography at the Encyclopædia Britannica

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