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Happy editing! Blythwood (talk) 14:42, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!!! IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 14:42, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Engraved by Collette van den Keere

Hi, thanks for your edits to the Hendrik van den Keere article. I had a question, is there a specific specialist source that Colette actually engraved and drew things herself?

I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding is that it's a commonplace to see publishers briefly credited as "making" work they commissioned; for example in this image a type is credited as "by Mrs Caslon", but it's known from other sources that Elizabeth Caslon actually commissioned it (from engraver John Isaac Drury), she did not literally cut the metal herself. I'm a bit concerned by a biography where she owned a business until late in life then suddenly started creating her own engravings that it's based on sources that didn't understand that nuance. Blythwood (talk) 14:48, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please see her biography: Colette van den Keere. While I am not an expert in this subject matter either, it is supported as written by the sources. If you have other information, I encourage you to continue editing the page to a truer and more accurate version. IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 14:53, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you. This is indeed an important nuance. IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 14:54, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Just curious. Do you use an LLM to help you expand articles? Thank you. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 19:09, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I try to leave articles as complete as they were originally, but I have used an LLM to help me merge seamlessly sometimes. Or to check so I don't commit copyvio, lol. Then I go over it again in my own words. I think that is still in line with what is allowed, correct? IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 19:12, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models for more advice. Thank you, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I will do that. I am enjoying editing Wikipedia and I don't want to do anything that undermines the project. I'll review and then tread very carefully! IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 19:23, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Willebrord Snellius. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:52, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Again at Johannes Corputius. Please carefully evaluate the sources you are adding. If they mention Wikipedia or credit us, then it's fairly obviously a mirror and cannot be used. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:06, 6 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to have to look very carefully at how this is happening... I've been googling web pages, reading them, then using the materials to edit pages. If I'm somehow introducing mirror content I need to revise my practises. Thank you for pointing this out to me :( IfShrimpHadABarbie (talk) 17:33, 6 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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