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Your submission at Articles for creation: Long-snouted African spurdog (November 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Aesurias was:

Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Their outputs usually have multiple issues that prevent them from meeting our guidelines on writing articles. These include:

• Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
• Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
• Essay-like writing
• Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
• Close paraphrasing
  

Please address these issues. The best way is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

I am 99% sure this has been written by AI, which is sad as the draft is interesting -- sentences like "Overall, the conservation status of the Long-snouted African spurdog remains unclear, and further research is required to determine its population dynamics, ecological importance, and potential vulnerability to environmental or human pressures." are giveaways. Also, and this is not a reason for declining, you have duplicated references. In reality, there are only a few sources used, but it appears to be dozens

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Long-snouted African spurdog and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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aesurias (talk) 23:37, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Merry Penguin! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! aesurias (talk) 23:37, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]