Editing Eurovision Wiki:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Noticeboard (section)

== [[User:UrusHyby]] ==

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This editor first began adding AI-generated text to [[Litvinism]] with all the obvious signs. See for example [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Litvinism&diff=prev&oldid=1326604222 this] edit which is obviously AI-generated. Despite the warnings on their talk page, they have continued to make large additions to a range of articles with signs of AI use. It seems possible that they have now added AI-generated text along with fictitious references that do not directly support the statement. This is evidenced by some of the references having no page numbers or a long range.

See for example [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Orsha&diff=prev&oldid=1327621835 this] edit to [[Battle of Orsha]] where they included a link to a page that does not exist (I could not find any such article that exists). After this was reverted, they [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Orsha&diff=prev&oldid=1327637892 restored] the changes but added more sources that do not directly support what is being said. Similar issue at [[Marc Chagall]]. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Chagall&diff=prev&oldid=1326383727 this] edit they added more sources and another editor [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Chagall&diff=prev&oldid=1329000603 tagged] one of the statements with the following reason: {{tq|Editor, who added this and two other refs, provided a non-existent quote in one of them, while twisting some other already present one in spite of quotation marks around it.}} [[User:Mellk|Mellk]] ([[User talk:Mellk|talk]]) 11:38, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

:As another example, UrusHyby made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kievan_Rus%27&diff=prev&oldid=1326724400 this] edit to [[Kievan Rus']] and one of the statements they added was: {{tq|It was a multi-tribal, loose federation where the [[Principality of Polotsk]] (in modern Belarus), the [[Principality of Kiev]] (Ukraine), and the [[Novgorod Republic]] (Russia) acted as key, often competing, centers of power.}} I looked at the cited source (they specified pages 10 to 15) and I could not find those specific states being mentioned as centers of power. For example, the Polotsk principality is only mentioned in the context of post-Soviet Belarusian intellectuals turning to it in "their search for the origins of their nation in the same historical period" (p. 12). [[User:Mellk|Mellk]] ([[User talk:Mellk|talk]]) 12:33, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
::They've been using an LLM since they resumed editing in September, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fleet_Digitalization&diff=prev&oldid=1311883580] is LLM nonsense. All references at their most recent creation, [[Mikita Melkazioraŭ]], don't exist.
::I've left them a [[Special:Diff/1329064113|message]] on their talk page that will hopefully convince them to desist. Cleanup is necessary. [[Special:Contributions/fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|fifteen&nbsp;thousand&nbsp;two&nbsp;hundred&nbsp;twenty&nbsp;four]]&nbsp;([[User talk:fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|talk]]) 13:21, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Hey everyone, thanks for your attention and your strive of having wikipedia the best source of corect information. That i share as well. I will copy here the comment i've made on my personal page, stating that I  do believe that i follow the core concept of WP that AI is a proper tool, is it used carefully/. That is exactly what i was doing. Similarly the approach of WP:AICLEAN states "The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise.". All the changes i do are goodwill based and supported by sources that i personally handpick. 
:::But thank you for the notice I will be paying even more attention that the links remain intact after the automated proofreading\grammar corrections that i do. [[User:UrusHyby|<span style="color:#FF5733">Preferences</span>]] ([[User talk:UrusHyby|talk]]) 14:08, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
::::{{tqq|All the changes i do are goodwill based and supported by sources that i personally handpick}} &ndash; All of the references you added to [[Mikita Melkazioraŭ]] are hallucinated and do not exist, [[Special:Diff/1314622574|this edit]] to [[Bicycle-sharing system]] added a hallucinated reference, as did [[Special:Diff/1329066066|this edit]] to [[ERM Telematics]], as did [[Special:Diff/1313311247|this edit]] to [[Package tracking]], as did [[Special:Diff/1313098761|this edit]] to [[Device tracking software]], as did...
::::Nowhere in Wikipedia ''policy'' will you find it stated that AI is a proper tool, it is simply not a core concept. Two policies and guidelines which ''do'' exist are [[WP:VERIFIABILITY]] and [[WP:DISRUPT]]. Your editing is in clear continual violation of both. Your {{tqq|automated proofreading\grammar corrections}} are simply disruptive, and if you continue to perform them I will open an [[WP:ANI]] report myself. Stop.
::::If you lack the ability to proofread and correct grammar yourself, and instead must rely on copying and pasting output from an LLM, then you [[WP:CIR|should not be making those edits at all]]. {{hp|UrusHyby}} [[Special:Contributions/fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|fifteen&nbsp;thousand&nbsp;two&nbsp;hundred&nbsp;twenty&nbsp;four]]&nbsp;([[User talk:fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|talk]]) 14:48, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
:::::Even though, I am still confident about the sources I use. In all of the edits you've mentioned, there are proper links [https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/ 1] for the [[Bicycle-sharing system]],  or [https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-employee-monitoring-software this] in [[Device tracking software]] edit I did det your point, as you're right, that some of the links get broken, unfortunately. 
:::::Which is a pity, as many of the articles that I improved were in a really poor shape, including a politically-hot one [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Litvinism&oldid=1326590426 Litvinism] that was a subject for deletion. And having good intentions and some understanding of subjects I tried to improve it as well as some others. 
:::::I do doubt that your [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ERM_Telematics&oldid=1329066066 revert] of my edit of [[ERM Telematics]] article that had [[WP:PROMO]] since 2016 made any good, and brought it any to a better state, comparing with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ERM_Telematics&oldid=1314266363 my version], even keeping in mind usage of AI tools. 
:::::But, I got the point. Thanks again. I will be more careful. [[User:UrusHyby|<span style="color:#FF5733">Preferences</span>]] ([[User talk:UrusHyby|talk]]) 15:19, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
::::::Are you sure you are confident about the sources you use? What about [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Chagall&diff=prev&oldid=1326383727 this] edit, where you provided a non-existent quote "Born Moishe Shagal in Liozna, near Vitebsk, in what is now Belarus" - allegedly from the Jackie Wullschlager's book? There is no such a quote in the book! So where did you find that quote? [[User:Alexschneider250|Alexschneider250]] ([[User talk:Alexschneider250|talk]]) 20:25, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
::::::[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc_Chagall&diff=prev&oldid=1326383727 In the very same edit] you added a ref to the book "Minsk - Wilna - Stationen einer undenkbaren Freundschaft", allegedly by Thomas M. Bohn. Are you sure that book exists? If so, could you provide a link to a web page saying anything about that book? [[User:Alexschneider250|Alexschneider250]] ([[User talk:Alexschneider250|talk]]) 22:43, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
:As one more example, UrusHyby made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russification&diff=prev&oldid=1327118713 this] edit to [[Russification]] adding a quote (with quotation marks around it): {{tq|"What the Russian bayonet didn't accomplish, the Russian school will."}}, allegedly by the Russian Governor-General [[Mikhail Muravyov]], from the book [https://books.google.de/books?id=lmld75blKCwC "Belarus: A Perpetual Borderland" by Andrew Savchenko], p. 55. But I read that entire page (and neighboring pages too) in that book and I could not find any sentence like that there, not even slightly close in meaning to that quote.
:Moreover, that quote is a fake! Mikhail Muravyov never said that. Actually, Ivan Petrovich Kornilov, a Russian official in the 19th century, said this:

:{{blockquote|text=
{{lang|ru|Русское образованiе сильнѣе русскаго штыка. Въ какiе-нибудь 4 года русскiя школы сдѣлали болѣе для образованiя народа и ослабленiя полонизма, чѣм войска въ десятки лѣтъ.}} [Russian education is stronger than the Russian bayonet. In about 4 years Russian schools did more for the people's education and weakening of the polonization than troops in tens of years.]
|author=Ivan Petrovich Kornilov
|title=[https://archive.org/details/russkoedielovsi00korngoog/page/n179/mode/2up Kornilov, I. P.: Russian Cause in the Northwestern Krai (St. Petersburg, 1901),  A.P. Lopukhin's Press, p. 147.]
}}

:This quote is being twisted and spread all around Wikipedia by politically-engaged editors, who are also trying to make it look like it was said about the oppression of the Belarusian language. Obviously, the quote is about using education to oppose the imposition of the Polish language among inhabitants of the [[Northwestern Krai]]. [[User:Alexschneider250|Alexschneider250]] ([[User talk:Alexschneider250|talk]]) 00:56, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

*Tracking [[Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Noticeboard/2025-12-23 UrusHyby|subpage]] created, 92 articles appear to warrant further review. While compiling the list, I encountered a multitude of hallucinated references. [[Special:Contributions/fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|fifteen&nbsp;thousand&nbsp;two&nbsp;hundred&nbsp;twenty&nbsp;four]]&nbsp;([[User talk:fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four|talk]]) 18:35, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

:This is continuing, see [[Special:Diff/1333034795]]. Most of this does not verify in the source [https://tsikhanouskaya.org/en/news/cf1c661ca99af61.html], and whatever does is SYNTH. Very likely LLM-generated. [[User:NicheSports|NicheSports]] ([[User talk:NicheSports|talk]]) 16:38, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
::They have now reinstated this content [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikita_Melkaziora%C5%AD&diff=prev&oldid=1333888748]. I left them a final warning on their talk page [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:UrusHyby&diff=prev&oldid=1333895472] [[User:NicheSports|NicheSports]] ([[User talk:NicheSports|talk]]) 09:56, 20 January 2026 (UTC)