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Visual arts

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Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 18 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ZoeyM0715 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Isha0323 (talk) 19:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music F24

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2024 and 16 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Goku3306, RyFelicien, Mensahrunit, Ameerahharris2 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kpcw24 (talk) 19:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP encyclopedic Manual of style must be maintained

Sentences in the section on Contemporary African Art, such as "Collection of Contemporary Art has gone a long way to counter many of the myths and prejudices that haunt Contemporary African Art." or "The appointment of Nigerian Okwui Enwezor as artistic director of Documenta 11 and his African-centred vision of art propelled the careers of African artists onto the international stage." do not correspond to WP encyclopedic style. I have just changed these and other texts, but more needs to be rewritten. Munfarid1 (talk) 10:51, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Likely AI-generated text

Hi - I've added the AI-generated tag here. I have not checked all edits -- and have not checked the student edits -- but this change by MrMonkEdits displays a lot of indicators of LLM use, particularly editorializing/synthesis, and may contain deeper hallucination issues. (The user's other edits are also seemingly AI). Gnomingstuff (talk) 15:09, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed; the sources added in that edit seem to have been completely hallucinated. I've reverted that section to what it was before that linked edit, and removed the maint tag. If there are more suspected LLM sections that I missed someone can feel free to add back the tag. (Preferably with listing what the remaining problems are here.) Perryprog (talk) 15:32, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's also the bulleted list with bold "headers" that is distractingly non-MOS in the "Influence on Western art" section. T3h 1337 b0y 06:19, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: ARH 372 African Art - Modern to Contemporary

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2026 and 29 April 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mkdavis5 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Uncg24 (talk) 20:19, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]