User talk:RealIK17

Better wording

Are you running some sort of grammar correction software on the entries? – Jberkel 17:04, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

no. I am a human RealIK17 (talk) 17:08, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

If you don't like my edits, I will stop editing 😀 RealIK17 (talk) 17:10, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Some are OK, some aren't improving anything. – Jberkel 17:46, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Please stop, most of your edits are just pointless and some like this even completely change the intended meaning while some others are just bad edits removing correct information. —Svārtava ^{[t•c•u•r]} 12:31, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Since these changes are more in German, I'm passing this case to Fytcha. I'm uncomfortable judging edits like diff. —Svārtava ^{[t•c•u•r]} 12:36, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree with Jberkel and Svartava2. Please stop it. Fytcha (talk) 12:44, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention Svartava2. I've manually looked through the last 50 edits of them now, of which 8 were not reverted.

I wanted to add that I share Jberkels suspicions:

1. Changes such as this, this and this one reek of automated software to me.
2. They seem to be confusing the parts of speech (diff), countability (diff) and the different semantic relations often, which is typical for automated grammar correction / plagiarism avoidance software (for instance in this diff; one can tanken vehicles that are not cars). See also some of the weird semantic changes like this one.
3. Changes like replacing "unspecified" with "unknown" (diff) are also along the lines of something a machine would do, not an en-5 speaker. Also, not sure whats going on in halten where they replaced "quantity" with "quality" (diff).
4. It's questionable whether any competent English speaker would believe this change to be an improvement in stylistic terms.
5. There's changes like this and this one where the result is plain ungrammatical.
6. Lastly, they consistently remove [[]] links; well, at least when they're not doing really weird stuff with them such as in this and this diff.

I have a really bad feeling about this; @Chuck Entz, Surjection. Fytcha (talk) 13:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Some more goodies:

• Eastern Germany -> East Germany (diff)
• "flat objects, including hospital inpatients" (diff)
• body of words -> syllabary (diff)
• for -> while (diff) --Fytcha (talk) 15:07, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Plagiarism avoidance software? Like one which obscures plagiarism by changing words? Yeah, that could fit—I wist not before that they now try to falsify the original texts on collaborative websites. On the other hand it could be the result of trying to think Western European in Chinese terms, if he be forsooth Chinese, as Southeast Asian education systems produce machines, so I politely ask to stop these edits (where the adverb would be not but a phrase, since my first guess was that it is a complete moron from the US who equates the system in his country with that of the world: I note that Germans only have a dim idea what a “college” even is, but this could be Chinaman generalizing US relations on everything west of Stalingrad). Fay Freak (talk) 16:21, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

At the very least the en-5 Babel and the "Better wording" edit summary are either baldfaced lies or seriously delusional. That said, there's not much someone would gain from running a bot to do this: we don't have Extended Confirmed status (or whatever it's called), and most of the abuse filters don't look at user edit counts. I suppose someone could be testing some kind of AI to see if their algorithms pass for human in real-world use, or changing word patterns to skew search engine word-frequency statistics in someone's favor, but that's just idle speculation (especially the latter). Neither the volume nor the rate of edits are suggestive of a bot, though that could be by design. At any rate, making lots of bad edits isn't grounds to run a checkuser check on anyone, unless we have good reason to believe that they're evading a block in doing so. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:51, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Having now gone through all of his edits and reverted most of them (which took me hours), I request RealIK17 to stop these kind of edits indefinitely. Thank you. --Fytcha (talk) 20:13, 21 December 2021 (UTC)