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Etymology

It might be good to cover the etymology. If Multiple Myeloma involves plasma cells, which are lymphoid, not myeloid, in origin, then why is it called myeloma? Diagnosis: What distinguishes myeloma from (non-hodgkins) lymphoma? Eaberry (talk) 18:26, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed summary for technical prose

I've been using Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental large language model to create summaries for the most popular articles with {{Technical}} templates. This article, Multiple myeloma, has such a template in the "Development" section. Here is the paragraph summary at grade 5 reading level which Gemini 2.5 Pro suggested for that section:

Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that grows slowly over time. It starts with small changes inside special cells in your bones, called plasma cells. At first, these changes cause a condition called MGUS, which doesn't make you feel sick but could turn into cancer later. More changes can lead to a slightly worse condition called smoldering myeloma, which also usually doesn't make you feel sick. If even more changes happen, it becomes multiple myeloma, which is cancer and can cause symptoms like bone pain or feeling tired. In rare cases, it can change again into a very serious type called plasma cell leukemia where the bad cells spread into the blood. Because the first two stages often don't cause symptoms, doctors usually find them by accident during other tests.

While I have read and may have made some modifications to that summary, I am not going to add it to the section because I want other editors to review, revise if appropriate, and add it instead. This is an experiment with a few dozen articles initially to see how these suggestions are received, and after a week or two, I will decide how to proceed. Thank you for your consideration. Cramulator (talk) 12:16, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am retracting this and the other LLM-generated suggestions due to clear negative consensus at the Village Pump. I will be posting a thorough postmortem report in mid-April to the source code release page. Thanks to all who commented on the suggestions both negatively and positively, and especially to those editors who have manually addressed the overly technical cleanup issue on six, so far, of the 68 articles where suggestions were posted. Cramulator (talk) 22:07, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]