User:Bri/Signpost Opinion1
|title = "Meticulously" searching for problem articles
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"Meticulous" writing was flagged by [https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-25/excessive-use-of-words-like-commendable-and-meticulous-suggest-chatgpt-has-been-used-in-thousands-of-scientific-studies.html El Pais] as a sign of AI-written promotional drivel. This is an attempt to dive in and see how bad the problem is at Wikipedia.
= Results of a totally not thorough bit of research =
I went and looked at the first page of results, or twenty articles for each of the four terms listed by El Pais, namely "meticulous", "meticulously", "intricate", and "commendable":
Here's what was found in:
- {{Search link|"meticulous"}}
::cooking (albeit "haute"), scientists, artists, authors, authors, military plans, both real and fictional
- {{Search link|"meticulously"}}
::cooking, again (scraping intestines?) – aha "written like an advertisement"
- {{Search link|"intricate"}}
::even more cooking, inlay (see illustration)
- {{Search link|"commendable"}}
::lots of horse material, and then India-related achievements which seem mostly legit, but uh-oh here's a genuine POV term for a sportsperson, better get on that (after all the other sportspeople article problems)
In summary two possible drivels out of 80 articles ... a nothingburger? Or maybe there's some drivel to be found, but it's waiting for a Signpost reader, or another editor, to find it.
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