Wikipedia:AI noticeboard/Hintha
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Discussion: Hintha
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14 October 2025
Hintha is a prolific and experienced editor who seems to have started using LLMs at some point. They have made thousands of edits since 2022 so this will be a major cleanup effort. In 2025 alone they have created 40 articles and done hundreds of article expansions. Puffery is a problem but the major issues are widespread WP:V failures and occasional, sometimes significant, copyright violations. LLMs may not be the cause of all of these issues but I am confident it is involved. Their created articles do not qualify for WP:G15 - Hintha seems to be at least ensuring that references exist. They are aware of my concerns as they addressed many of the issues with the Bowkylion article after I documented issues on the talk page. But they have not responded to any of my comments on their user talk page or on any article to which they contributed. They have been inactive for the past two weeks.
- Bowkylion: see this version before some of these issues were fixed. I documented the issues, including a minor copyright violation, on the talk page
- These three articles cover similar subjects to Bowkylion and were created within 50 minutes of each other
- Private Security Services Law about 20% of this article (300+ words) was copied word for word from . In an LLM tell, some of the copyrighted material was cited to a source other than the one it was copied from. I filed a copyvio report and it has been handled, with revdeletion pending. The editor from CCI who addressed the copyright cleaned up the rest of the article including this WP:V failure
- Fish patty two of the three sources for this article are recipe blogs. The article also has unsourced puffery:
bears a striking resemblance to Spanish empanadas and Southeast Asian curry puffs
NicheSports (talk) 13:32, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
- Shouldn't this be in ANI? This falls more into disruptive editing especially as this isn't just an LLM only issue 212.70.110.25 (talk) 14:42, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
- The point of my post is to document the need for cleanup, not to pursue sanctions. Also I think its too early for ANI - this is a long-term editor who is currently (likely temporarily) inactive. They deserve a chance to respond here, hopefully they will be willing to stop using LLMs and help with cleanup. NicheSports (talk) 16:07, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
- Can anyone take a look at this? Would like a second opinion given this is a very experienced editor NicheSports (talk) 20:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Went through history -- I could be wrong but the LLM use feels fairly recent, nothing prior to 2024-ish jumped out at me. You also probably saw this but they seem to have switched to MediaWiki's content translation tool.
- Cleaned up Inya Lake Hotel -- this one honestly wasn't too bad, idk how reliable the sources are but besides a few promotional asides everything was backed up as claimed. Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:46, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
- Did Waziya Cinema, the main problem here seemed to be questionable sourcing (one scoure seemed to be AI-generated) and some close paraphrasing but no major hallucinations. Honestly, I don't really feel like this rises to the level of ANI, the editor seems conscientious enough.
- In general, apologies for not doing more actual cleanup -- I don't really consider myself much of a writer. Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah I have no interest in ANI here. Just wanted to get a second perspective on whether LLMs were involved (thank you!). Is it fair to say that most of their substantive edits in 2025 should be checked, but the issues may not go back further than that? NicheSports (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
- not sure, apologies - a lot of it is linguistics articles that are way outside my wheelhouse Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah I have no interest in ANI here. Just wanted to get a second perspective on whether LLMs were involved (thank you!). Is it fair to say that most of their substantive edits in 2025 should be checked, but the issues may not go back further than that? NicheSports (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
- Bad news, they've even used an LLM to generate infoboxes:
Here's an infobox food for Tapioca Chip, formatted for easy understanding
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- Tracking subpage created with 105 articles awaiting closer review. Only edits from 16 May 2025 through to the present are included, as that appears to be the day unsubtle LLM use began (from :
U Tin's contributions have left an indelible mark on Myanmar's architectural landscape ... celebrated for their innovative fusion of cultural heritage ... not only enhanced the aesthetic appeal of Yangon but also ...
). Very possible there may be model use before that date. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 07:44, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
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