with Markdown syntax is a strong indicator that content is LLM-generated, especially if in the form of a fenced Markdown code block. However, Markdown alone...

Chatbots and LLMs often use three backticks (```), a Markdown syntax for a codeblock, to wrap a block of text in a specific computer language, in this...

Where can I find the official documentation for Markdown? --PuzzledvegetableIs it teatime already? 01:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC) @Puzzledvegetable: There...

l • ef • b • bl; (8) to Markdown (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (diff  !top) - Link: blog.jotterpad.app/markdown-writing-novel-essay-book/...

convert a Word document with automatically-numbered sections into HTML or Markdown in such a way that the section numbers are preserved in the output? After...

preceded by ##, which is displayed as 1. 1. This usage is a feature of Markdown and is usually a sign that a page has been generated by a large language...

l • ef • b • bl; (8) to Markdown (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (diff  !top) - Link: blog.jotterpad.app/markdown-writing-novel-essay-book/...

runways or air traffic control towers. An editor who is more accustomed to Markdown than they are to markup (or who pastes LLM-generated text into one or more...

also likely fails WP:NOLLM. The user has been inserting text wrapped in markdown codeblocks in DIff/1361215034 and Diff/1361214543 around the same time...

by app developer (see https://github.com/rtyley/agit/blob/master/README.markdown), almost completely written by the developer himself, see Robertotyley (talk ·...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs)​ Draft with AIREDCATS and has markdown codeblock from chatbot response in Special:AbuseLog/44858573. Was first...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2020 August 20 Official documentation for Markdown Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2020 August 21 How To Access...

seen in human-written requests, are also a tell. Markdown While some users do occasionally use Markdown-style asterisks for italics and such, it is very...

August 2025 (UTC) @Robert McClenon: See revision 1286984331: It exhibits WP:MARKDOWN, WP:AICURLY, and WP:AITITLECASE. Combined with: redundant top content heading...

languages' given they are rarely used for marking up text in the way HTML or Markdown or wiki syntax is (certainly something like REST isn't a markup language)...

September 2025 (UTC) Delete per nom. Also seems AI generated with the use of markdown formatting TruenoCity (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2025 (UTC) Delete - There...

Delete: Looks to be completely LLM-generated, given all the unchecked Markdown formatting, but nothing conclusive for a G15. - Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 06:00...

template is useless now. The last entry which it has [commented in the markdown text] is v14. Today the stable release is v17.5. 3 major revisions and...

in a markdown code block) and was speedily deleted under G15. The page was then recreated by KitsuneDP on 2026-07-03, also AI-generated (markdown code...

"Check |url= value". The external links they provided were in Markdown format. (Markdown uses [https://example.com](Example text) while MediaWiki uses...

k/Archives/Computing/2025 March 26 Converting a Word file into HTML or Markdown while preserving section numbering Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2025...

logs)​ Possibly AI-generated (according to gptzero.me) and has telltale Markdown-style bolding rather than actual wikitext bolding. Also, the one external...

(talk, contribs) 19:22, 12 July 2026 (UTC) edits in July 2025 that had markdown [19] Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 13:25, 3 August 2026 (UTC) AbhinavAnkur...

least one of the references appears to be not real, and the text is all markdown, and all of that appears to indicate it was generated using an LLM. The...

org/wiki/Main_Page|the main page of the wiki]] displays as "the main page of the wiki"). Markdown link syntax is also supported. Other linking methods besides those are...

articles from scratch. The article has many signs of AI writing, such as markdown, verbose edit summaries, and superficial analysis (an event that symbolizes...

typical LLM phraseology that gives undue emphasis to importantance and Markdown syntax. --Gurkubondinn (talk) 16:41, 19 December 2025 (UTC) Delete: not...

characters. Many Markdown parsers are relatively simple and will take the first parenthesis after the start of the URL as the Markdown closing character...

This is AI-generated and fails WP:NOLLM, see for example WP:AIBOLD and WP:MARKDOWN in previous revisions (and in User:GovHP/sandbox, which this was based...

2012-03-26 09:08:11 (UTC): User JDLcms t • c • dc • l • ef • b • bl; (10) to Markdown (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (diff  !top) - Link: academic-cms...

blocks, or turn0search0, as well as the presence of ```wikitext or ```wiki markdown code blocks (additional explanation). In addition to the clear-cut signs...

(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Markdown syntax, curly quotes, vertical lists, citing sources for information that's...

2012-03-26 09:08:11 (UTC): User JDLcms t • c • dc • l • ef • b • bl; (10) to Markdown (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (diff  !top) - Link: academic-cms...

2016-07-02 06:53:30 (UTC): User Nonhumpy t • c • dc • l • ef • b • bl; (3) to Markdown (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (diff  !top) - Link: helix6garciniareview...

2018-12-01 15:08:53 (UTC): w:eu:User:Joxe Aranzabal (t - c; 1672) to w:eu:Markdown (diff  !top) - Link: markable.in/editor/ (R/Xmeta/L- still there) 1970-01-01...

Speedily delete for failing WP:NOLLM and WP:V. Created with WP:AILIST, WP:MARKDOWN, em-dashes, and invalid Template:Featured Article. This is pure AI slop...

failing NOLLM. same rationale as when I tagged and draftified the page (markdown, AIREDCAT, AIBOLD, AILIST, created with nonexistent Template:Infobox social...

(There are 4 backlinks: RSS (file format), Paul Graham, Low-power, and Markdown.) And if it's bad form to link to one's wikipedia page from one's website...

being marked as AI. Gocrazy69 (talk) 04:26, 14 October 2025 (UTC) The markdown formatting you're using isn't what we use on Wikipedia, but it's what AIs...

declined for various reasons including having no references, and as having Markdown and being the work of artificial intelligence. The author then resubmitted...

that uses markdown. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 17:29, 31 May 2026 (UTC) @Ministry editor Looking it over, I think I was a bit hasty with WP:LLMSIGNS (Markdown usage being...

jolielover♥talk 04:48, 28 May 2026 (UTC) Delete. The formatting—especially markdown tags—indicates this is LLM generated content, which isn't permitted. pburka...

and data visualization. Learning goals include a form of typesetting (Markdown variant on Wikipedia), a bit of versioning (edit summaries), research skills...

edited as part of the editathon (a helper can show you how to do this): The markdown to type is: {{Maynooth IWD Editathon}} Articles that are short and need...

AI-generated, the same user that created it wrapped the wikisource in a Markdown codeblock in revision 1356294027, which chatbots often do when they are...

use title case, lists, emoji, and/or bold text. Sometimes, there will be Markdown or "feel free to customize it further"-type messages (strong giveaways...

other nobility, and the actual prose of the article has AI tells including markdown formatting. Notability is not substantiated, not to mention the primary...

completely rewritten in Diff/1367876072 where wikitext markup is replaced with Markdown, and there is more AILIST and (attempted) AIBOLD in this edit. One AIREDCAT...

above; also, the text appears to be AI-generated without much review (the markdown is left in). Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:52, 23 September 2025 (UTC) Delete...

pending for 76 days) Pass possibly AI-generated as well based on usage of Markdown and non-existent link in see also section. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 00:11, 18 August...

user's other similar edits are more blatant about this, having things like markdown left in the text.) Gnomingstuff (talk) 22:32, 3 September 2025 (UTC) Redirect...

category on enwiki Diff/1361578255: rewrites lead and replaces wikitext with markdown. The second paragraph has a grammatical error, may have been copied from...

100% rock solid proof, but the combination of several indicators, such as markdown formatting remaining in the text (highly characteristic of LLMs, not common...

as unreviewed LLM output, as indicated by many invalid ISBNs and use of Markdown instead of MediaWiki formatting. Moreover, WP:PROF is not met. NeuroQuantology...

release date database Interchanging desktop and laptop RAM Wordpress, Markdown and New Lines Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 August 29...

WP:WikiLoop Galaxy Synchronized Documentation - http://README.md: Comprehensive Markdown documentation - http://README.wiki: Wikipedia-compatible wikitext format...

edited as part of the editathon (a helper can show you how to do this): The markdown to type is: {{WIR-150}} Articles that are short and need expansion Irish...

my AI detector is not particularly good (it was detecting anything with markdown as AI) but the text does still show AI-like patterns. SuperCode111 (talk...

likely linked from an external site such as Reddit. A bogus feature of markdown's link formatting syntax tends to silently strip the trailing last character...

characters for some of this - Markdown does all four, with markup that's still readable when looked at plain - see markdown cheatsheet. Some email clients...

2025 (UTC) The use of asterisks in a place where italics should be is Markdown, a well-known AI tell. Also, there is a lot of uncited speculation ("suggests"...

veterinary student with interests in wildlife and poultry. I've made too many markdown files in Obsidian for my veterinary notes that I felt the need to actually...

referred to in [350] markdown-to-jsx - a software library for converting markdown text to React-renderable elements markdown-to-jsx github repository...

many use the terms interchangeably. Other LMLs include Markdown and GitHub Flavored Markdown. By comparison, HTML allows you to do more things but compromises...

(talk) 11:24, 28 June 2026 (UTC) I mean "markdown" as in the Markdown markup language, and the WP:MARKDOWN sign of LLM use. The chatbots and LLMs use...

some of the minilanguages used in Internet commenting systems - especiallyMarkdown which is used on Reddit, Github, and elsewhere - use parentheses to format...

particular, the use of multiple hash marks to generate a numbered outline is Markdown, which is not wiki markup and, when seen in Wikipedia, is almost always...

well-known convention from email for people of a certain age (I guess there's markdown--notably reddit, which uses it also) but we're not using either of those...

Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 13:34, 15 July 2026 (UTC) loads of edits with markdown [4], still editing but only in userspace for now Kowal2701 (talk, contribs)...

blocks, or turn0search0, as well as the presence of ```wikitext or ```wiki markdown code blocks (additional explanation). In addition to the clear-cut signs...

member application Added 2 August 2025; archived 24 August 2025 Adding Markdown to speedy deletion criterion G15 Added 4 August 2025; archived 7 September...

(UTC) Hello, I'm using markdown to write the posts for my wordpress blogs and I've run into a minor formatting issue. Markdown outputs the text in HTML...

write it, per your guidance before. Is that not allowed either? The G15 markdown tag is now removed. this tag ----> Thank you for the feedback. Topmike...

apostrophes and quotation marks, negative parallelisms, vertical lists, Markdown, and the rule of three) often appear in such comments, this project page...

{{User:Chinggis6/Markdown}} This user can write in Markdown. linked pages {{User:Snowstormer/Markdown}} md This user can write in Markdown. linked pages...

if it's in the queue or not. Can you let me know if I need to edit the markdown? Limerick 2030 (talk) 14:32, 18 November 2020 (UTC) Hi Limerick 2030. Draft:The...

discussion was keep. TIL Tavix changed his signature and in 2018 reddit Markdown can't handle links properly. At any rate, without clear compelling evidence...

something which showed that very recently purchased products had MORE of a markdown (lower price) than one with a few years age on it; the idea being that...

Wikitext was not difficult for me to learn, since I had prior experience with Markdown and web template systems. After reading the Vandalism on Wikipedia article...

does not exist, Ref 3 is a sports betting prediction site, and there are markdown remnants in **2023**, etc. Should be deleted, even if articlified, probably...

highest demand and the lowest markdown. Other stuff like clothes or jewelry would have much more significant skepticism or markdowns from the retail price. 24...

can't find anything simple that's useful to me to learn the dashboard, markdown, common tasks and etc. Why can't anyone iterate through simple tasks with...

formatting issue seems to be a misunderstanding there’s no leftover “**” markdown in any version. And im happily open to any improvements. Ill keep refining...

draw attention to this block by User:Black Kite of new user Manual of Markdown (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)...

link, NYU Nexus PDFs confirming Acton Medal and Curatola Wing). Removed Markdown formatting that triggered the last decline. Could someone review and let...

WP:PROF and understand what it says about primary/institutional sources, the Markdown syntax erroneously used instead of MediaWiki. Second, I think the citation...

way. Microsoft sells OEMs Windows for an undisclosed but probably large markdown over buying it off-the-shelf. It makes sense to buy OS-less computers to...

Alansplodge (talk) 16:55, 20 December 2019 (UTC) Classic case of the elusive markdown markout moment. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC) Going...

October 2025 (UTC) Delete as obvious LLM slop. The article contains raw Markdown formatting and uses a variety of suspect phrases (italics added to demonstrate...

format, similar to Reddit/Github comments being editable using either Markdown or a WYSIWYG editor. — Omegatron (talk) 04:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC) @Omegatron:...

user because they created the Magsaysay Drive (Olongapo) article with a markdown ``` code block left over from their chatbot. ‑‑gurkubondinn 15:47, 10 July...

such as {{Cite journal}}, or why it would mix wikitext formatting with Markdown formatting (which is not used by Wikipedia). This article exhibits too...

rather uncommon in text that humans have generated prior to 2023, including markdown. Of course, those may merely be stylistic indicators, but that doesn't...

odd when using a markup language, since for example DokuWiki system and markdown language collapses consecutive blanks lines. I think collapsing consecutive...

template thru Wikipedia) offers a range of export options including HTML, Markdown, wiki markup, and formatted text, as well as BibTeX and RIS In terms of...

user linking/pinging, which is not native to LLMs that tend to use social/markdown formats instead This creates very weird scenarios where the AI repeats...

the formatting of the source titles and corresponding URLs: looks like Markdown to me, which smacks of LLM generation. I would take it with a great pinch...

during paste or by the link dialog in the 2017 wikieditor. That's how many markdown editors do that too; you paste a link, and it inserts [title](yourlink)...

using wikitext? using wikitext v2 electric bungaloo? using html? using markdown? Searching "parser migration project wiki" returns no relevant results...

"HMM might actually be new", as seen above in Tgeorgescu's diff, they use markdown to *emphasize* text, and I haven't seen JS do that. There's also this,...

butt? You have to learn a markup language that's neither MediaWiki's nor Markdown and seemingly has no application outside it; the way to mark a task as...

meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00...

tools like markdown for docs, I was curious if there is any interest or possibility in beginning to provide a path toward integrating markdown support to...

it for programming (like C, Java, C++, etc.), markup (like Wikitext and Markdown), control of another program (like a Makefile), or data storage (like JSON)...

happening makes a little sense because this is the markup for "code" things in markdown. I would recommend filing a task about whether the key can/should be internationalized...

having edit summaries containing "==== xxxxx ====" or similar heading markdown e.g. [10] [11] (IP) [12] [13] [14] DH. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:53, 20 December...

meaning you can still improve it and resubmit. The formatting seems to be Markdown - did you copy this from somewhere? '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs)...

delete ---- Patar knight - chat/contributions 04:01, 31 May 2016 (UTC) Markdown.com → TheBlaze#Websites  (links · history · stats)     [ Closure: keep/retarget/delete ] ...

19:18, 6 July 2026 (UTC) Difficult to tell when they started. There's markdown in [3] (Sep 2025), which doesn't help much re LLMPRODing Kowal2701 (talk...

that, if I memorize that chart, I can go forth and confidently buy my markdown fava beans without a hitch? Thanks! - Fullobeans (talk) 18:24, 12 January...

guns. The diffs show gradual writing and addition of sources, without markdown, hallucinated refs, or other AI shibboleths. Rule of three and fronted...

from Craig Luthy. I apologize in advance for not being familiar with the markdown you use. I am a Latter-day Saint (i.e. a member of the Church of Jesus...

customizations. For example, I’m trying to install a markdown mode (http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/) but I don’t know where to put the actual ...

learn) Markdown, pandoc can be used to convert it to html, pdf, epub, or even .docx formats. Many text editors support it – vim comes with markdown syntax...

contribs), XTools [143] had markdown and [144] had utm_source=chatgpt (both Sep 2025), [145] (May 2026) also had markdown. Also see ongoing ANI and AE...

that multiple WP:V issues have been found in their edits (I also spotted markdown, prose, and LLM style issues), I've been fairly aggressive with my inclusion...

by app developer (see https://github.com/rtyley/agit/blob/master/README.markdown), almost completely written by the developer himself, see Robertotyley (talk ·...

usability. This idea has been inspired by what GitHub has done when rendering Markdown files in repositories. For instance, in jQuery’s repository, hovering over...

languages' given they are rarely used for marking up text in the way HTML or Markdown or wiki syntax is (certainly something like REST isn't a markup language)...

noticed their edits on the General Tinio article, where they have inserted markdown (even code blocks in Diff/1363445599) and hallucianted reference among...

that he hasn't been replaced is that cladograms are a pain to syntax in markdown and so nobody wants to bother. Hemiauchenia (talk) 11:04, 7 March 2020...

had been pending for 0 days) Pass, obviously AI generated with leftover markdown. monkeysmashingkeyboards (talk) 18:59, 3 December 2025 (UTC) Declined Draft:Aravind...

{{[[Template:AI-generated|AI-generated]]}} tag: Trailing '```' marker for markdown code block from a chatbot response. Draft:CHEKAIKCHAILA Nihed 2026-06-22...

Category:User latexUser latex-1 Category:User luaUser sql-1 Category:User Markdown Category:User mw-4 Category:User mysql-1 Category:User pas-3 Category:User...

(R/Xmeta/L) 2014-08-25 20:12:18 (UTC): w:de:User:VanGore (t - c; 321) to w:de:Markdown (diff  top?) - Link: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/edition/editors/24297...

soon be overwitten. For now at least, the dashboard stores information in Markdown syntax (which it then converts to wikimarkup).--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:29...

friendly, to put it mildly? I teach programming and know a variety of markup/markdown systems (e.g., Latex), and now I am even more in awe of the type of information...

Unit 700 (WP:AITITLECASE, WP:OAICITE) Iranian external operations (WP:MARKDOWN) Hezbollah drone smuggling investigation (2024–2025) (WP:OAICITE) Hezbollah...

on any OS that supports Perl. I already have software to convert MultiMarkdown into an EPUB and the EPUB passes third-party validation. So I'm familiar...

necessary. —Leaf.Sheap ⇖ /.°°.\ ⇗ (They•Them) 20:15, 17 July 2026 (UTC) Are markdown files seriously a source code for you ? As it's not described as such on...

also a loss leader factor. Stick out a few flat-screens at ridiculous markdown, and you get people into your store to buy other goods at normal prices...

template thru Wikipedia) offers a range of export options including HTML, Markdown, wiki markup, and formatted text, as well as BibTeX and RIS In terms of...

filter markdown codeblock thôi. edit của b có mấy cái đánh dấu ``` như thế này, tức là lấy thẳng từ một khối mã codeblock trong một giao diện có markdown. b...

LLM-generated or not by the existence of either an obvious sign (such as markdown or chatbot communication), or a combination of less obvious signs. While...

"hard", it's not that hard really. It's just so different from BBCode, Markdown, and so it's a lot to remember/mess with. Also plain text does not translate...

of Markdown; however, I think it should be its own filter rather than part of the LLM-flagging ones. While LLM-written text often includes Markdown, I...

exists and should be used) on account of favouring the vastly different Markdown format. The draft has since been deleted as a consequence of the LLM use...

Request for Comments 43,378 1,399 C High 208 AOL 43,368 1,398 B High 209 Markdown 43,330 1,397 C Unknown 210 Technological singularity 43,191 1,393 B Top...

adequate or even cursory review of the AI's output (as shown by, e.g., broken Markdown formatting). While new practices (like AfC's "llm" decline reason and the...

posts prior to publishing, to make the best impression. I much prefer Markdown, to be honest. This is my only Wikipedia account. I have never edited from...

Ctrl+A, F12, and the clipboard contained http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/) http://192.168.1.1/ http://www.sjbaker.org http://www.sjbaker.org/snow...

probably because of their URL parser excluding them (and/or something Markdown due to its link syntax) and it ended in delete. There may have been some...

up with CSD notices. Lovelyfurball (talk) 22:36, 27 October 2025 (UTC) Markdown syntax: Diff/1319074348. Gurkubondinn (talk) 16:00, 28 October 2025 (UTC)...

Unfortunately I think this is an issue with sortable tables in general. Since the markdown adds an arrow to the end of each cell to show it's sortable, it nudges...

know the rules initially, hence the edits) and possibly incorrect use of markdown (again, that's inexperience). If the best course of action is to start...

what the page looked like when I reviewed it. Note the copious amounts of Markdown, both in the page and the over-limit, copypasted edit summary. There’s...

multiple articles incredibly quickly with non-existent categories and markdown. Need these to either be cleaned-up or deleted. – LuniZunie(talk) 15:01...

10 May 2023 0.2FTE and has blogged about her experience and created a markdown document in R for anyone wishing to quality assure the data in Wikidata...

much for the feedback and help! Hi @Qcne, I only used AI to generate the markdown as I was unfamiliar with the Wiki format but this introduced a few issues...

excessive bold text and bulleted lists, as well as the improper use of Markdown, are giveaways. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 01:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)...

2026 (UTC) I also suspect that an LLM was used in preparation. There's markdown language left in the draft, and in that very same section, there's another...

the two databases. Claire has blogged about her experience and created a markdown document in R for anyone wishing to quality assure the data in Wikidata...

) The generated articles are available online in rendered form and as Markdown source (see full list below, with links to their Wikipedia counterparts...

refineries in Turkey, and so forth? With a canned userpage containing Markdown formatting (you're supposedly a longtime Wikipedia editor who spent many...

(merchandise planning, assortment, size, space, price, promotion, and markdown optimization) and customer intelligence (demographics, market basket analysis)...

meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00...

links with malformed targets, which can easily appear by accident in any Markdown-supporting site or application. However, there is precedent to delete such...

the place, as well as many of their edit summaries (sometimes including Markdown in the summary) but the smoking gun is this revision of Flora the Red Menace...

RfC Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion RfC: Including Markdown in G15 Consensus against including Markdown in G15 as it is not consistently an indicator of...

(There are 4 backlinks: RSS (file format), Paul Graham, Low-power, and Markdown.) And if it's bad form to link to one's wikipedia page from one's website...

article created about mdbook one day (widely used software for turning Markdown into HTML). I'm not attached to the formatting, of course, so any advice...

editors. I use Markdown on sites like GitHub but on 'normal sites' not geared at technically proficient people I don't recall using Markdown or any other...

10 May 2023 0.2FTE and has blogged about her experience and created a markdown document in R for anyone wishing to quality assure the data in Wikidata...

net/merops/default.html (277, 3, 1, 0 R/X/L) blog.martinfenner.org/2013/12/12/from-markdown-to-jats-xml-in-one-step/ (277, 4, 1, 0 R/X/L) www.inera.com/extyles-products/extyles...

me. And I'll apologize in advance for not using the wonderful Wikipedia markdown in penning this - I'm sorry but I just can't be bothered to look up all...

(the use of Markdown is one dead giveaway; LLMs seem to always do that for some reason, and a human editor would quickly notice that Markdown wasn't resulting...

favor to them simply because I'm a fan and an IT guy who has worked with markdown language before and always wanted to create a Wikipedia page before, so...

Category:User latexUser latex-1 Category:User luaUser sql-1 Category:User Markdown Category:User mw-4 Category:User mysql-1 Category:User pas-3 Category:User...

11 February 2024 (UTC) Delete all - These redirect solve a problem with Markdown on other websites, but that's a problem that should be solved on those...

yourself against claims. Clerk endorsed - They helpfully tell us, in ChatGPT markdown, that they're not a sock of a previously blocked user. I don't have quite...

linked pages {{User:InAndOutLand/user_MD}} **MD** This user writes with Markdown. linked pages {{User:Avicennasis/cygwin}} This user uses Cygwin linked...

are (from that source) datasets of "cleaned articles", stripping out "markdown and unwanted sections (references, etc.)". But the table at the top of...

modify it. Was this comment generated using AI? I say this because you used Markdown formatting for italics instead of wikitext, which uses two apostrophes...

might be visiting these redirects other than simply typos. For example, in Markdown, unescaped right parentheses are interpreted as the end of a URL, so often...

Cooperative video game, Copy editing, Scientific writing BCMisc Edge case, Markdown Scientific writing, User experience design RR5786 Scientific writing Edge...

what the intention of their edit was but they removed part of the comment markdown, causing most of the article to be hidden. Is there some way of tagging...

-(talk) 12:44, 30 July 2025 (UTC) I checked Meio2934's user page and it has Markdown formatting in it, so I am inclined to believe this user is actually using...

Regarding the markdown formatting and the use of backticks: I spend a significant amount of time on Reddit and GitHub, where standard markdown (like wrapping...

11:42, 17 December 2025 (UTC) I disagree. There are common WP:AISIGNS like markdown formatting and telltale phraseology like "I am not trying to dispute policy"...

some of my edits contain markdown syntax, as Obsidian is a markdown-based text editor, and it is quite possible that some markdown elements were inadvertently...

quote=s appear to be hallucinations Special:Diff/1307138307 – contains markdown-style footnote refs: [^3][^4] Special:Diff/1295888253 – The Sabarmati Report...

The redirects have much less potential to be spawned. Rather than any Markdown-using site being a potential cause, this is only caused by Reddit, and...

least one high-confidence sign of AI writing, such as a WP:G15 element or Markdown use. — Newslinger talk 16:50, 21 September 2025 (UTC) Jaravedr (talk ·...

3 July 2026 (UTC) In 21 July 2025 they made [3] with markdown, [4] in June 2025 also had markdown. They made more trivial edits on 20 July, exactly a month...

) The generated articles are available online in rendered form and as Markdown source (see full list below, with links to their Wikipedia counterparts...

prose, and initial diffs are even more pronounced in this, such as this Markdown formatted 2025 draft. The AI traits are also consistent with the dates...

(on screen keyboards), file formats (DVR, Game Boy Advance video), the Markdown markup language, graphing calculators, and security vulnerabilities. Most...

AI-sourced citations) already exist. @Zanahary: do you want to include Markdown syntax into the former as you allude above? @Thryduulf: do you think all...

rather than the editor. Thenationbureau's same reference, argument, and markdown formatting in reply (Special:Diff/1358896545) One source relevant to this...

such as {{Cite journal}}, or why it would mix wikitext formatting with Markdown formatting (which is not used by Wikipedia). This article exhibits too...

reverted on Kurukh language in late April, and content (including some markdown formatting) was reinstated and subsequently reverted at least once after...

MareNostrum MariaDB Marine Unsaturated Model Mark IV (software) Mark V. Shaney Markdown Market for zero-day exploits Market share of personal computer vendors...

RfC Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion RfC: Including Markdown in G15 Consensus against including Markdown in G15 as it is not consistently an indicator of...

modify it. Was this comment generated using AI? I say this because you used Markdown formatting for italics instead of wikitext, which uses two apostrophes...

parameter. That, in addition to several other indicators -- a small sampling: Markdown added here (the [text](url) link format), AI edit summaries here (partial...

(UTC) Hello! I''m trying to update this article about Markdown by adding a paragraph on how Markdown has now become very much used for AI prompting, with...

This filter tracks the use of Markdown-formatted text (specifically, Markup italics/bold and link syntax). Reason: Markdown is a markup language distinct...

also likely fails WP:NOLLM. The user has been inserting text wrapped in markdown codeblocks in DIff/1361215034 and Diff/1361214543 around the same time...

being marked as AI. Gocrazy69 (talk) 04:26, 14 October 2025 (UTC) The markdown formatting you're using isn't what we use on Wikipedia, but it's what AIs...

(MediaWiki syntax, as used on Wikipedia) and Markdown are two distinct forms of lightweight markup language? Markdown has become a kind of de facto standard...

using markdown-style header formatting instead of Wikitext, i.e., #Top level heading ##Level 2 heading ###Level 3 heading But as always with markdown, it's...

imediaethics.org website. The only thing I've used LLMs for is to format markdown and to format citations to make automatic citing easier. An undesired fidelity...

any LLM signs in the prose. The only thing I can see is a single use of markdown, which on its own is not clear proof of LLM use. sksatsuma 13:45, 17 December...

(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Markdown syntax, curly quotes, vertical lists, citing sources for information that's...

<abbr>p.</abbr>, <abbr>p.</abbr> Mariya Androsova-Ionova: <abbr>14</abbr> Markdown: <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> Markova Sušica: <abbr>Others</abbr>...

Those pages are a combination of free-form content that is coming from markdown that gets converted to mediawiki, some standard structure that comes from...

edit): (+48) Samuel Beníquez (1 edit): (+48) - Fixed - mostly OK but added markdown formatting (to a section that needed edits anyway) Triangle Lake (Ontario)...

an edit made 3 hours before the LLMN report contained markdown Special:Diff/1323793124(self-corrected) Final Exam (novel) (hist) Y Completed...

a lot of CMSes/forum software use Markdown as their markup language, and the only kind of italic and bold Markdown supports is <em> and <strong>. sapphaline...

2025-06-03T07:27:25Z (diff; ai; had been pending for 85 days) Pass: AI markdown. Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 16:41, 7 June 2025 (UTC) Accepted Jon Bentley...

there is **markdown formatting**. If you were writing and checking the article yourself you'd obviously have noticed that the markdown formatting was...

obviously these have very little to do with the article itself, and a lot of markdown headers left in (even in the non-truncated set) that speak volumes about...

seems to be common (see this talk page post). Their user page also has Markdown and section headers in title case. Flanker235, if you are using large language...

"Check |url= value". The external links they provided were in Markdown format. (Markdown uses [https://example.com](Example text) while MediaWiki uses...

other shenanigans. So if you're more comfortable with writing in LaTeX, markdown or something else, you could use these to write a draft and then convert...

article that links to itself. The Markdown article has multiple links to CommonMark, which itself leads to Markdown#Standardization. Is there some sort...

asked to edit, Arcot Shankar, is "MediaWiki". It's not Markdown, but it could be called a markdown language. Anyway, it's a markup language, which means...

very likely be AI-generated.? We could add a note giving examples like markdown, hallucinated references, a combination of AISIGNS and WP:V failures etc...

my AI detector is not particularly good (it was detecting anything with markdown as AI) but the text does still show AI-like patterns. SuperCode111 (talk...

category on enwiki Diff/1361578255: rewrites lead and replaces wikitext with markdown. The second paragraph has a grammatical error, may have been copied from...

Speedily delete for failing WP:NOLLM and WP:V. Created with WP:AILIST, WP:MARKDOWN, em-dashes, and invalid Template:Featured Article. This is pure AI slop...

completely rewritten in Diff/1367876072 where wikitext markup is replaced with Markdown, and there is more AILIST and (attempted) AIBOLD in this edit. One AIREDCAT...

This is AI-generated and fails WP:NOLLM, see for example WP:AIBOLD and WP:MARKDOWN in previous revisions (and in User:GovHP/sandbox, which this was based...

failing NOLLM. same rationale as when I tagged and draftified the page (markdown, AIREDCAT, AIBOLD, AILIST, created with nonexistent Template:Infobox social...

guns. The diffs show gradual writing and addition of sources, without markdown, hallucinated refs, or other AI shibboleths. Rule of three and fronted...

other nobility, and the actual prose of the article has AI tells including markdown formatting. Notability is not substantiated, not to mention the primary...

protection is lifted. Thanks again!StormL00ver (talk) 18:18, 5 June 2026 (UTC) Markdown formatting alongside numbered list style with headings seems possibly AI-generated...

obviously these have very little to do with the article itself, and a lot of markdown headers left in (even in the non-truncated set) that speak volumes about...

AI-generated, the same user that created it wrapped the wikisource in a Markdown codeblock in revision 1356294027, which chatbots often do when they are...

English myself. However, I accidentally typed ```, which triggered the Markdown code block filter, and the article was subsequently flagged as LLM-generated...

October 2025 (UTC) Delete as obvious LLM slop. The article contains raw Markdown formatting and uses a variety of suspect phrases (italics added to demonstrate...

they've been using LLMs to write articles as well. [17] from Sep 2025 has markdown. Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 14:27, 2 August 2026 (UTC) You're completely...

class="wikipediauserbox" Wiki is reflected in HTML, of course, also PHP, I did not notice Markdown. But I haven't even heard of Babel. Seregadu (talk) 03:54, 29 May 2025...

references with Markdown-formatted links in the url parameters, and also formatted the url parameter in already-present references as Markdown. The edit inserted...

100% rock solid proof, but the combination of several indicators, such as markdown formatting remaining in the text (highly characteristic of LLMs, not common...

WP:PROF and understand what it says about primary/institutional sources, the Markdown syntax erroneously used instead of MediaWiki. Second, I think the citation...

formatting issue seems to be a misunderstanding there’s no leftover “**” markdown in any version. And im happily open to any improvements. Ill keep refining...

least one of the references appears to be not real, and the text is all markdown, and all of that appears to indicate it was generated using an LLM. The...

inside the XML-tag as big technical challenge while the rest had a simple Markdown like notation for the source text editor. Now I can appreciate those decisions:...

output looks like, complete with communication intended for the user and Markdown formatting instead of wikitext. If LLM output is properly reviewed, it...

above; also, the text appears to be AI-generated without much review (the markdown is left in). Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:52, 23 September 2025 (UTC) Delete...

the formatting of the source titles and corresponding URLs: looks like Markdown to me, which smacks of LLM generation. I would take it with a great pinch...

Contents Snapshots. Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python. Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation...

fuck-ups. It's obviously AI generated slop, many of the drafts still with markdown, but that's not in the criteria. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:29, 20...

as unreviewed LLM output, as indicated by many invalid ISBNs and use of Markdown instead of MediaWiki formatting. Moreover, WP:PROF is not met. NeuroQuantology...

user's other similar edits are more blatant about this, having things like markdown left in the text.) Gnomingstuff (talk) 22:32, 3 September 2025 (UTC) Redirect...

them, except this time they aren't even trying to hide it (see the mix of Markdown (*prior to*) and wikitext (''doi:10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101311.'')). Maybe...

necessary. —Leaf.Sheap ⇖ /.°°.\ ⇗ (They•Them) 20:15, 17 July 2026 (UTC) Are markdown files seriously a source code for you ? As it's not described as such on...

typical LLM phraseology that gives undue emphasis to importantance and Markdown syntax. --Gurkubondinn (talk) 16:41, 19 December 2025 (UTC) Delete: not...

More so than the last comment, it seems clearly AI-generated, from the Markdown usage to the vague flailing at policy acronyms to the not actually saying...

eports&diff=prev&oldid=1344255331 -- clear formatting issues caused by Markdown use, exactly what would happen if they were using LLMs. -- ozmoozmo@enwiki...

comments (which is, in fact, against guidelines), at least remove the markdown formatting. Gnomingstuff (talk) 21:20, 2 December 2025 (UTC) I've restored...

@SquidPosting, welcome to the Teahouse! Do note that Wikipedia does not use markdown for syntax. Conflict of interest editing is, by default, pretty shady....

from primary documentation" in your AI-generated-and-pasted text. Also, Markdown. David10244 (talk) 07:12, 6 August 2026 (UTC) Hello Editors, I am the paid...

discussion.  Courtesy link: Draft:Mircea Paul goreniuc How do I correct bad markdown and malformed citations? Ancaruh (talk) 00:57, 6 April 2026 (UTC) It sounds...

at 2026-08-09T19:22:42Z (diff; v; had been pending for 0 days) Pass Has markdown, but doesn't read like slop. Incredibly strange. msk 18:36, 17 August 2026...

'weird things' in the text: - - the Markdown style links being one - chat AIs are usually trained to generate Markdown so the website can show formatted...

jolielover♥talk 04:48, 28 May 2026 (UTC) Delete. The formatting—especially markdown tags—indicates this is LLM generated content, which isn't permitted. pburka...

where the added sources didn't exist or failed verification, this edit had Markdown formatting and referred to a source that is completed unrelated, or this...

to other markup text, but ultimately is not the same. For example: in Markdown, to link to the Main page you would need to do [Main Page](https://en.wikipedia...

contribs] 08:56, 2 February 2025 (UTC) P.S. by off-wiki I mean I edit it on a markdown file on my computer. QuickQuokka [⁠talk • contribs] 09:01, 2 February 2025...

searching for article about it to create a link on Polish article about Markdown as an example of project that use it, and was not able to find it. jcubic...

links visible, several terms using what seems to be italicization using Markdown instead of Wikitext, and the same photograph used twice. This article needs...

them (more than half!) are dead links. This, together with AI tells like Markdown formatting, makes me quite confident that these are AI hallucinations....

of the sort Boleyn entered - they hit on phrases like "utm=chatgpt" and markdown formatting. They don't catch falsification of print sources, which is what...

shout on Geany. I've been using Obsidian as it's what I had and has some markdown capabilities, but for some reason could not get it to display monospaced...

intend to make some edits in the coming months, but will copy down the markdown elsewhere so I do not have to request this again.Vismaypikachu (talk) 04:14...

adequate or even cursory review of the AI's output (as shown by, e.g., broken Markdown formatting). While new practices (like AfC's "llm" decline reason and the...

articles from scratch. The article has many signs of AI writing, such as markdown, verbose edit summaries, and superficial analysis (an event that symbolizes...

means that in this case I correctly picked up on what it does, namely, the Markdown formatting around links. I wonder where these comments that are like "I...

but because you wrote too formally or didn't know you can't use normal markdown, you get a scary block message saying that Wikipedia doesn't want you here...

Looking at their website, it looks to be the case there too (cf. the broken Markdown formatting). Either way, I'd block as a spam-only account even without...

given the presence of stuff like WP:OAICITE (Special:Diff/1316932642) and markdown indicating a lack of review. They haven't edited in about 4 months so I'm...

c • b 19:30, 27 October 2025 (UTC) Here's an edit in which they pasted markdown formatting, and another edit which created a slew of weird, empty references...

tell from the style of writing, the em dashes and the attempts at using markdown for formatting (e.g. * for emphasis, > for quotes). 86.23.87.130 (talk)...

does not review edits before publishing them, e.g. older edits contain Markdown and a "Let me know if you'd like..." message from the AI assistant. Now...

actually seem to be checking outputs before they post, they sometimes have markdown, and this comment from 7 February is filled with odd nowiki tags. In a...

pagename, especially after warnings: one, two, three (this one strangely uses Markdown syntax) I find it unlikely that Weliviewf is reading and copyediting tens...

reported by User:Dahawk04 (Result: ). In their replies Dahawk04 manifested WP:MARKDOWN mixed with wikitext and WP:AICURLY, signs of AI use and in combination...

isn't as complex as what most editors do for their day jobs. The simple markdown used here is also used on lots of websites and platforms. It seems like...

same topic after the first References section which is different and uses Markdown instead of excessive boldface. Bela bella: Xenon℅Saturn's first edit on...

edits? Your protection request has several factual inaccuracies and uses Markdown for bold formatting. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 20:57, 23 September 2025...

Unfortunately I think this is an issue with sortable tables in general. Since the markdown adds an arrow to the end of each cell to show it's sortable, it nudges...

option is getting familiar with MarkDown and using a free app like Joplin (which actually has WYSIWYG mode; MarkDown familiarity not actually required)...

Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 18:46, 30 July 2026 (UTC) [121] from Sep 2025 has markdown (see External links) Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 20:01, 30 July 2026 (UTC)...

Completed - (Initiated 538 days ago on 25 February 2025) This has been the subject of perennial change and disputation at the article without resolution...