User talk:Niddel

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Thank you for your advice. I will try to make more detailed edit summaries in the future Niddel (talk) 22:36, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Gianluca De Ponti
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What, exactly, are you doing?
Hello. Could you please explain what this is? Few if any of the sources you have cited support the attached statements, and many of them are completely unreliable. Are you generating articles with ChatGPT or something? Grayfell (talk) 11:01, 22 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello. Thank you for your time. I've seen the templates that were added to my first article and the problems they address. I was looking for some topics I'm both familiar with and which is both already covered on Wikipedia and leaves room for expansion. To me, this topic seemed one. Only later, after it was published and whole paragraphs were removed, I found out I got perplexed in my list of sources at some point of writing. I'll definitely need to correct the writing process in my future articles. Initially I read dozens of those to create a template of the future article and made a list with the sources where I attributed each, etc, etc. There were many steps but it doesn't matter since it didn't bring success I expected. And although this part of the issue is quite clear to me now, I don't understand still why the section with examples was removed? I know there were no sources but it's only because those applications have their own articles on Wikipedia. I only included those that have Niddel (talk) 23:17, 23 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Okay, thank you for responding. There are a lot of issues here.
 * First, please clarify that you are not using ChatGPT (or a similar service) and will not use it in the future for adding content to Wikipedia articles.
 * Please make sure every source you cite is a reliable source. In the Decentralized chatting application article, many sources were unreliable. At least one of them was to a predatory journal.
 * You also need to use reliable sources to define the topic, and to explain why it's different from related topics which already have articles. Please make sure every source says something specifically about "decentralized chatting applications" as a topic. Do not use sources which talk about decentralization but not chatting, or instant messaging but not decentralization, as this is WP:SYNTH.
 * I'm confused about why you focused on blockchain so much. The article mentions Signal, Tox, and Elements, but none of those use blockchain, and blockchain would not improve security.
 * As for the "popular" examples section, why those apps and not any of the dozens of others? Decentralized end-to-end encryption isn't a new feature for chatting programs, as Off-the-Record Messaging (for example) is decentralized and has been around since 2004. By listing examples without any source it looks like you are promoting those services. You also described them with promotional language, which is not appropriate. Please look at WP:NPOV and also WP:TONE
 * Do you understand these problems? Grayfell (talk) 05:37, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No, I don't use ChatGPT or any.. AI-tool? Then, I don't. I've read the whole article on predatory journals. This was very helpful in detecting them furtherly. As for the other problems you've mentioned, I understand those. Thank you. Niddel (talk) 09:19, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello again. Thank you for clarifying about ChatGPT, I appreciate it.

The article Flipping is an my Watchlist, so I noticed that you have added a source to that article. However that source is not reliable. It appears to be the personal blog of someone named William C Spaulding, but self-published sources like blogs are not usually reliable sources. Please more carefully review reliable sources and be more cautious when adding sources. Remember that not everything you find on the internet is reliable, even if it looks reliable or seems factual or neutral. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 04:13, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * I apologise for using any unreliable sources and I will do my best in increasing the quality of my sources in future. Thank you Niddel (talk) 11:36, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Decentralized chatting application
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Your draft article, Draft:Decentralized chatting application


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Proposed deletion of ScienceSoft USA Corporation


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