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DYK for Mariann Budde


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|text = On 27 February 2025 ↗, '''Did you know ↗''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''Mariann Budde ↗''''', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ''... that US congressman Mike Collins ↗ called for Bishop '''Mariann Budde ↗''' ''(pictured)'' to be "added to the deportation list" after she urged President Donald Trump ↗ to "have mercy"?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mariann Budde ↗. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>(here's how, Mariann Budde ↗)</small>, and the hook may be added to the statistics page ↗ after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page ↗.
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Ibraheem Samirah



Hello Northern-Virginia-Photographer,

I’m reaching out regarding the AI-related tag/concern you raised about my edits to the Ibraheem Samirah ↗ article. I want to understand your evaluation process, and I want to bring my editing of the article up to the Wikipedia guidelines.
Could you give me some pointers as to which parts of my edits made you suspect AI? I would really appreciate some guidance on what to change so the text would read more encyclopedic and, clearly, edited by a human.

I would then revise the article accordingly, removing anything that feels like it’s been created by an LLM, and promotional language. After I’ve made those changes, would you be willing to take another look and let me know whether, in your view, the AI-related tag can be removed?

Thank you for your time. GlyphHunter (talk) 01:26, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

:I have concerns about the article and your edits besides the seemingly AI written sections. I'll try and list them all below.
:Firstly, and I don't blame you for not knowing this, Samirah himself (or people closely associated with him) edited the article in the past ↗. I made reference to this on the talk page entry ↗ I made when I first reverted some of your edits. This is in direct violation of Wikipedia's own rules regarding conflict of interest editing ↗. I don't think that you know Samirah/are related to/closely associated with him, and I am not accusing you of that. My initial reverts were in part because of my nervousness that it was possibly WP:COI ↗ editing. The fact that your account was/is so new, and a large number of your edits were only to Samirah's page did appear somewhat suspicious at the time, but you have since started working elsewhere, so for now, my fear is alleviated on this point.
:Second, I am worried about your edits being a sort of reputation laundering ↗. Being frank, Samirah's page is barely notable ↗ enough to exist on Wikipedia. He served ''part'' of one term in the Virginia House of Delegates, was not reelected to his position, and hasn't held office since then. His running in primaries is notable, even though he lost. Most of the information you've added serves as a sort of reputation laundering; creating a larger page for Samirah makes him seem like more of a notable person than he actually is. I'd advise you to look more at the Wikipedia policy on biographies of living people ↗, and specifically the section on people who are relatively unknown ↗. From the latter: "Many Wikipedia articles contain material on people who are not well known, regardless of whether they are notable enough ↗ for their own article. '''In such cases, exercise restraint and include ''only'' material relevant to the person's notability, focusing on high-quality secondary sources ↗'''." (emphasis mine). Samirah's work as a dentist (outside of its connection to his fraud conviction), his work as an activist while in college, and a litany of policy positions on legislation he never wrote and/or passed legislation on aren't notable enough in my mind to warrant inclusion in the article. I'll make another pass soon deleting some of this material unless you think it'd be wise to keep it, in which case, I'd recommend trying to build consensus ↗ on the article's talk page for keeping that information.
:Third, I had issues with some of your edits themselves, and the fact that they violated the neutrality rules on Wikipedia ↗. For instance, this edit ↗ from December 26: you added "During the primary, Shin’s campaign benefited from substantial independent expenditures by Democratic Principles PAC, a political action committee with limited public disclosure. Recent reports indicate that the PAC appeared to have connections to the national organization Unite America, noting concerns raised during the 2021 election cycle about the influence of opaque or so-called “dark money” groups in Virginia politics." I'll be frank with you again, '''this was a ''bad'' edit'''. The original article ↗ you cited that snippet from doesn't go anywhere near as hard against that organization, and <u>'''''we are not allowed'''''</u>, as Wikipedia editors, '''''<u>to go beyond what the sources we cite say</u>'''''. Unless you had a source that explicitly described an action as shadowy, dark-money, etc., it wouldn't be appropriate to add it to the article'''<u>. On a larger scale, unless a source explicitly states something, you ''cannot'' add it to Wikipedia.</u>''' If you wanted to keep the information in the article (which I wouldn't do myself, but ignoring that for now), I'd write it something like this: "The ''Virginia Mercury ↗'' reported in June 2021 that Shin received a $120,000 donation from the Democratic Principles PAC, which is connected to Unite America ↗, a centrist political organization focused on civility in politics." By writing what you did, however, you directly attacked Shin's campaign, using the Wikipedia voice ↗ to imply that her campaign was bought by a shadowy dark money group, impugning her reputation, which, again, pointing to the policy on biographies on living people ↗, is a '''''<u>huge</u>''''' no-go for Wikipedia, as that's the sort of move that could get Wikipedia (and potentially you as an editor, if my memory serves me) sued for defamation.
:Fourth, there were some poorly written & clunky additions in your edits, the worst of which I think I've gotten.
:Lastly, yes, some of your edits had evidence of being LLM-generated text. When I first removed some of your edits, I deleted (like from this edit ↗ on 14 January) information that was repeated literally the first paragraph before it. You yourself delete duplicated information you originally inserted in this edit ↗ on December 26th in this edit ↗ from January 19th! Without going too far down the rabbit hole ↗, repeating information is one of the signs of AI/LLM written information. As is, for that matter, information that serves as reputation laundering - "flowery language" as I originally put it.
:To summarize, I had many problems with your edits. I was worried they were written by Samirah himself (which I no longer believe), they acted as reputation laundering for a non-notable figure, they violated neutrality rules on Wikipedia, they were poorly written in some cases, and there were signs of AI written material. I'm very happy to see more people choosing to join Wikipedia as editors, but I'd maybe stop working on articles of modern & contentious pages ↗ until you've maybe taken a refresher ↗ on editing, and some of Wikipedia's more important policies ↗. Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 18:53, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
::Hello, Northern-Virginia-Photographer!
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:: I have made an edit to the earlier discussed page, Ibraheem Samirah ↗. It is mostly trivial facts, so I think it should not be a problem. Anyway, it would be nice of you to check if you have time.
:: Thank you again for your advice, I really appreciate your help with this.
::
:: GlyphHunter (talk) 12:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

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