User talk:Lex Cohen

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Hello, Lex Cohen, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi ScottishFinnishRadish, I did create my previous account using a company username, which I later discovered was against Wikipedia rules. Apologies for this, I did not publish any changes with the company-named account, however (I saw the warning and decided not to go through with it). It was then I decided to create this account - I thought it would be easier for both of us rather than requesting a username change, although it looks like I've been blocked from using Wikipedia even on here. Is there anything I can do in this scenario? I am not affiliated with OpenAI whatsoever, and the citation and information I added is entirely accurate. I'm not sure how it was seen as a promotion if I'm being sincere here. I can only assume that because it mentioned "ChatGPT Plus", a paid-for service, that it's not allowed to be discussed?
 * Would love some clarification on this, if possible, thanks! My goal was to add both information and citations to articles which discuss AI and ML, since this is my field of work and I spend most of the day researching it! Cheers. Lex Cohen (talk) 01:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Citing your blog as a source is where the promotion comes up, and in general blogs are not reliable sources. You should avoid adding citations to a company that you're involved with ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:39, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ScottishFinnishRadish. I genuinely wasn't aware there was a rule for this, since even on the GPT-4 page which I added information to, there are several citations leading to blogs and even random Twitter threads and YouTube videos! Are those really seen as more reliable sources when compared to a curated blog? Across Wikipedia, I see citations referencing to much smaller blogs all the time, I suppose these have just not been reported/flagged as mine was.
 * I assume that my intention, which was to cumulate accurate information and sources into a blog post published on my site, and then cross-post the information to the relevant Wiki page, including a citation link to the original published article, would in fact be against Wikipedia's terms and guidelines. This is a shame, but I understand if that's the case. Thanks for the welcome, by the way! I appreciate you giving me so much information on this matter, too.
 * I'd hoped that this would be a beneficial way for AI-related pages on Wikipedia to receive some much-needed updates (since AI is evolving and changing so rapidly!), whilst also peaking some readers' interest to investigate the citation, which could in-turn hopefully provide them with further information on the subject of AI and ML. Please do let me know if this would actually be allowed, I can definitely follow your advice and leave the final publishing to you or the other editors, saving all of my revisions as drafts prior to publishing. I actually though my initial edit would have gone to one of the editors first, but it seems like it just published straight away. Lex Cohen (talk) 02:32, 18 July 2023 (UTC)