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Committed identity: b47abc099dd8cc7db38284da195f386fa4df601580953ba0a1e545ad8a918428df29fd29f11182b372cd0544d2f1c21bfe83132015444d3a09b99eaa6e10a0fd is a keccak512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

My actual name is Francis Freeman, but I use the nickname Rand on Wikimedia projects and elsewhere online. I primarily edit topics related to journalism, newspapers and other publications.

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For one-on-one matters you may email me here, where I will respond quicker than if you post on my talk page.

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The Minor barnstar
Thank you for helping update and add short descriptions to Wikipedia articles. With your help, we have cleared the WikiProject's top 3000 list for June 2025, for the fifth month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better. Keep it up! LR.127 (talk) 02:01, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Feedback request: Geography and places Good Article nomination

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Feedback request: Miscellaneous Good Article nomination

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Question from Chaironic (18:00, 22 December 2025)

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Hi there, RandFreeman, I'm Chironic. I just created a NEW account because somehow I was blocked out of my two old accounts, "Chaimon" and "ChaiMontg." {I'm a regular donor, too!} Can you tell me if there is a way to 'merge' these old accounts with my new one. so that my previous edits and contributions can be saved as part of the new account?

Thank you! --Chaironic (talk) 18:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because of technical limitations you unfortunately cannot merge multiple accounts. As an alternative, though, you could explain on your new account's userpage that you used to be Chaimon and ChaiMontg but lost access to those accounts. randFreeman 18:06, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I feared that would be the case. Thank you for letting me know! Chaironic (talk) 18:19, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from CountMomo (14:49, 23 December 2025)

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Hello! I had occasionally browsed the talk sections of wiki articles before I made an account to edit. I have noticed that there is a distinct style that people use when speaking in the talk sections, is this covered in the MOS or more of a formality? --CountMomo (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean talk pages of articles, then no, talk page messages are not covered in the MOS. People talk like they do on talk pages because they're already in a much less casual environment than social media and forums. Although, there are an information page (WP:Talk page layout) about how talk pages should be formatted and a list of abbreviations (WP:SHORTCUTS) that editors might use in discussions. randFreeman 14:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! CountMomo (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nannyrosie (05:56, 25 December 2025)

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Hello,

On the Shawnee page under "Language" I was not able to fix the links to references after correcting some grammar. Can you please assist and advise?

Thank you,

Rosie --Nannyrosie (talk) 05:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed. If you copied the text on the page into another text editor, proofread it there and then pasted it back into the Wikipedia interface, that was why the references disappeared. Citations aren't automatically included by their corresponding numbers; they are made by templates like this one. WP:Citing sources may be of use. If you edit with the source editor, you can copy the citation contents (everything between, and including, the <ref> and </ref> tags) and paste them back in their original places after you finish proofreading. Hope this helps! randFreeman 06:36, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Rand! Thank you so much! This is very helpful! While I have you here, I noticed that the page titled “Yowani Choctaws” appears to use an incorrect pluralized form in the title. For an article about the Yowani Choctaw, the grammatically standard form is “Yowani Choctaw,” consistent with titles such as “Choctaw” and “Cherokee,” which are not pluralized with an “s” in article titles. Would you consider moving/retitling the page from “Yowani Choctaws” to “Yowani Choctaw” for consistency and correct usage? I've posted this in the "Uncontroversial Renaming/Move" section with a request for anyone who might be able to assist. I thought I would ask you as well. Any help there would be appreciated as I saw the error and was not able to correct it myself. I'll be reading up on the info you gave me tonight. Thank you again! Nannyrosie (talk) 06:52, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. randFreeman 06:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
When I tried to learn about editing and participating in the Wikipedia community a few years ago I never heard from my mentor a single time. I appreciate your help and attentiveness very much! I'm inspired to give this a real go! Time to study up! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! Nannyrosie (talk) 07:05, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! Happy holidays to you as well. randFreeman 07:06, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jagdish(Mandyal) Rajput (07:56, 26 December 2025)

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How to upload image --Jagdish(Mandyal) Rajput (talk) 07:56, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can go to Special:Upload and follow the instructions there. After uploading the image you can add it to a page by inserting the code [[File:InsertFileNameHere|thumb|InsertCaptionHere]]. randFreeman 08:01, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Question from Skittles Skits wolf (19:41, 27 December 2025)

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Birth and Age ​Birthday: August 5, 1995. ​Age: As of late December 2025, he is 30 years old. ​Hometown and Early Life ​City: He grew up in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, in the United States. ​Background: His official bio notes that he began making music to express himself, eventually collaborating with Nick Vickers to produce his extensive catalog. While some profiles mention personal health or neurodivergent details, his public persona focuses primarily on his identity as the "King of Darkness" and his prolific output of hip-hop and rap. ​Quick Stats ​Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap. ​Latest Major Project: High (Released Nov 4, 2025). ​Total Work: He has released over 75 projects, including several "Greatest Hits" compilations. --Skittles Skits wolf (talk) 19:41, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:PROMO please stop trying to advertise yourself on Wikipedia. randFreeman 20:02, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nannyrosie (05:07, 28 December 2025)

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Hello again!

I've spent my time on holiday trying to finally dive into the interest I've had contributing to Wikipedia. I spent countless hours this weekend crafting edits for pages I'm interested in. Tonight, I got a message from a fellow editor who informed me I was "Likely" using LLM's to write articles and proceeded to revert near 20 hours of solid work I put into my first edits. I wrote the editor on their talk page to acquire more information, but I thought it would be wise to write you as well. Could you possibly review the three articles I contributed on and help me understand the issue this editor raised? I can't figure what brought on this accusation and what I should do about it. I would appreciate any help you could offer.

Thank you,

Rosie --Nannyrosie (talk) 05:07, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You noted in your comment to TheTechie and in a few of your edit summaries that you use LLMs to give you feedback on your proofreading, and some of your edits and edit summaries do have turns of phrase that seem LLM-like (e.g. "ensured neutral, descriptive language", "removed informal phrasing while preserving historical voice", "reflecting Creek usage"). That was probably why she reverted your edits.
Wikipedia does not have a zero-tolerance policy against LLM usage (in fact, the only hard-and-fast guideline regarding this is the one barring users from creating articles wholesale using AI), but editors are strongly discouraged from making obviously LLM-assisted edits because LLMs tend to introduce content and style issues, and many editors are opposed, on principle, to LLM use on Wikipedia.
For now I would suggest that you wait until TheTechie responds to your concern and then discuss the issue with her. Hope my answer helps. randFreeman 06:03, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! This was very helpful in aiding me to craft a response to TheTechie that I hope the editor will feel is insightful and useful. Where I used ChatGPT directly on Wikipedia was actually in my edit comments. I literally compiled a list from ChatGPT for use as a standard "edit comment" type for quick use and reference for my edits. I enjoy making edits, I detest notating them. Could you please let me know if what I have done here demands that any article I contributed to be reverted? I had quite a bit of time put into the three articles I've contributed to thus far and added information to each one specific to the requests of other editors in the talk and history page. One particular source and citation I added eluded other editors for months and I found it and added it to the article. Is it common for so much work and potentially valuable info to be taken down in sweeping reverts across entire pages over issues like this? Shouldn't this be a "line by line" issue? The answers to these questions will be helpful for me as I try to understand if I need to stand my ground on this issue or accept my actions as mistakes. Nannyrosie (talk) 07:02, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is common for edits to be removed on the presumption, based on edit summaries or contributor behaviour, that they are problematic. Some of your rewordings were not necessary in my opinion (the original prose was already understandable and in a reasonably encyclopaedic tone, and the new prose altered the meaning and added LLM-like turns of phrase) but they probably would have not been reverted had there been no suspicion of LLM usage.
Because you have already informed TheTechie that the edits themselves were your own, there is not anything you can do but wait for her response and address the issue with her. I recommend that from hereon you write your own edit summaries to avoid confusion; since most of your edits are rewordings and corrections, you could put "ce" (which stands for copyedit) as a standalone edit summary, and most editors will know what you mean. There are more edit summary abbreviations available at Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. randFreeman 16:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Very good! Thank you again! Nannyrosie (talk) 16:54, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User has copy-pasted this on my talk page. I have responded to them there about their AI use. thetechie@enwiki:~$ she/they | talk | contributions 18:44, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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