User talk:Gertrude16

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Hello, Gertrude16, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Chat GPT sandbox work
@Gertrude16@Aley.v17@Macbookair101@Doopdole @Japhaplen: I checked out your sandbox on "Can Chat GPT think?" and I think there might be some kind of misunderstanding about the purpose of this Wiki project.

Writing Style: Currently, the article reads completely like a persuasive essay, which is fine for other assignments in your course but not for Wikipedia. You have to keep in mind, Wikipedia is not a place to publish your ideas or conclusions about a topic. That’s considered “original research,” and is not allowed on Wikipedia. This means your writing for Wikipedia will summarize what independent, reliable, secondary sources have said about a topic, so that a Wikipedia reader can get an overview of the current thoughts and understanding of that topic. Remember, the goal is to provide a neutral, fact based summary of the topic at hand based off the reliable sources you've found, not to persuade the readers on whether Chat GPT can think. I recommend reading over pgs. 7-9 of Editing Wikipedia before you rewrite to check out some examples of what is appropriate prose for Wikipedia.

Inline citations: A place to start, is to go over the content and make sure that a reliable source can support or back up each sentence that you have in the sandbox. If any reader wants to check if a sentence has accurate information, they can click on the inline citation and find that information in the cited source. This will help you see what text can remain and what text is fluff or original research, and can then be removed. Keep in mind an article for Chat GPT already exists, and your group's additions would be for improving that existing article. Also keep in mind not to duplicate information that is already present in the article.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the above feedback. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:36, 11 April 2023 (UTC)