User talk:CraxyDuck332
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[edit]Hello, CraxyDuck332, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:01, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Use of an LLM like ChatGPT
[edit]Hi, CraxyDuck. I see that you've been assigned to edit Wikipedia as part of your course on parasitology. I strongly suspect, however, that a large portion of what you wrote was instead written by an LLM such as ChatGPT, which constitutes academic dishonesty in the form of plagiarism. More importantly to us, however, using an LLM to aid in contributions to Wikipedia without the utmost scrutiny is dangerous and often wastes editor time trying to sift through what's correct, what's correct but effectively meaningless ("this species is unique compared to other species of [X]", where that's literally how a species is defined), what's half-correct, and what's outright hallucinated. It seems like you've failed to scrutinize this text at all, leaving in meaningless genericisms such as: "By understanding Opalina ranarum more thoroughly, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics of host-parasite relationships and the broader ecological roles that parasites play in ecosystems." I can't speak to the factual accuracy because I'm only just now seeing this article, but this alone gives me deep reservations.
It seems like you haven't submitted this article yet for your assignment, so you still have time to correct this and make something much better than whatever crap ChatGPT can churn out. I know this is just another assignment to you, but I don't want to see you fail it, I want to see you succeed and learn how to write well, I want you to be a positive example for the student editor program which actually does really help us a lot, and I especially want to see a good, solid article about Opalina ranarum that we didn't have before but will now thanks to you.
I'm not sure how an instructor evaluates these assignments when a non-student editor steps in to change things, but this article is live on the mainspace where anyone can read it, so I see it as important to at minimum verify that what's currently there is correct (because I'm not entirely sure anyone has yet), amend any misinformation, and make sure it abides by our policies like the one on verifiability. Beyond that, though, I won't expand it or anything. I also won't offer any help in the sense of providing sources, copy-editing, etc. (not because I don't want to; I certainly can after the assignment is graded), but if you need help with technical wiki-text stuff, feel free to ask, since I'm pretty sure that's fair game. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 06:37, 28 April 2025 (UTC)