Talk:The Undergrads

This article was AI-generated

I was just about to remedy the sourcing issue here when I realized that this article was entirely AI-generated by its creator. Well, the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com"s gave it away. And that is why the sources are such crap here, @SaTnamZIN. LLMs favor garbage sources like IMDb, Letterboxd and whatever other websites it can immediately scrape from the surface of the net like the unreliable, narrow, lazy, and mendacious machines they truly are. Fortunately, the article here is stubby enough to not cause much damage that can't be easily fixed. I'll get on it. Οἶδα (talk) 19:23, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jojhutton: Rather insulting to call my message to you on your talk page a "drive by" notice when I explicitly assumed good faith on your part and specificially personalised the notice in order to indicate to you that your creation introduced factual errors so that you understood why I bothered messaging you. This was the article that you generated using an LLM and pubished on Wikipedia. But your callous response to my notice is rather telling and the only reason I am even furthering the issue. You clearly haven't learned any lesson here and instead decided to take the fact that I even notified you of the issue as an attack. *sigh* That was never my intention at all and I find it sad that I even have to belabor the point to justify my notice to you.

If the article passes WP:V than why do we care how it was created.

Well, believe it or not, this is insufficient:

1. https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-undergrads/2030284362/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undergrads?utm_source=chatgpt.com

3. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/undergrads?utm_source=chatgpt.com

4. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-undergrads/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

5. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-04-ca-703-story.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

#1 is simply TV Guide and okay, but hardly establishes notability

#2 is a WP:FANDOM wiki which is WP:USERGENERATED

#3 is WP:ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM which is not even a source but rather a content aggregator

#4 is Letterboxd, and both it and its data source The Movie Database (TMDB) are WP:USERGENERATED

#5 is simply an awards results article

The "Canadian–American" country origin was not WP:V because the cited TV guide source did not support that claim at all. Art Carney's character was not WP:V either, because the LA Times article is only about the 7th ACE Awards and does not mention Carney's role at all. The film also did not "premiered on April 1, 1985 on The Disney Sunday Movie", as was originally written in the article you published. It is not WP:V either because the cited Fandom article doesn't even say that. It says: "The Undergrads is a 1985 television film that originally aired as a Disney Channel Premiere Film on the Disney Channel on April 1, 1985." April 1, 1985 wasn't even a Sunday. And that too is incorrect. The film premiered at 8pm on The Disney Channel on May 5, 1985. The article's plot summary also left more to be desired. Not only because we do not cite Letterboxd for plot summaries just as we do not cite WP:IMDB because its plot summaries are user-generated too. But when writing "As Mel strives to maintain the required GPA to stay in school, familial bonds and intergenerational friendship take center stage.", that is bad MOS:PLOT writing I guess, but it is moreso obvious AI with its unencyclopedic flowery language and that is an issue. The original article you created also listed Douglas Koch as the film's cinematographer when the credits clearly list Laszlo George as cinematographer. I of course realise I am analyzing a bunch of text and sources that a robot generated so I am the loser in this situation. Thanks. Οἶδα (talk) 04:53, 6 April 2026 (UTC)