Talk:Community Notes/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Czarking0 (talk · contribs) 21:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your contribution. I believe this article is close to GA and I want to add some comments to be addressed before approving. I was skeptical of this being sufficiently noteworthy but your sources demonstrate notability. This section of the review is just based on your writing. I will review sources if you implement these changes. Also the sections are just history, operation, and criticism. Are there potentially other sections that should be added? "

Introduction

• "Community Notes, formerly Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can "add context" in order to provide fact-checks, under a post, image or video." My understanding is that fact checking is not the sole purpose here I think think this would be better "Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can "add context" such as fact-checks to posts, images, videos, or comments.

• Multiple times throughout the article you say "As of [month] " put the year in afterwords otherwise in 5 years it becomes confusing to read

• Try to keep your coverage of events in the last 90 days brief since wikipedia is not for current events

• "It has been considered as an attempt to debunk propaganda and misinformation[12] and as a replacement for Trust and Safety staff,[13] although former head of the department, Yoel Roth, states this was never the intention.[9]" The grammar here is not great. Try to never user "It has been considered" has this naturally raises the question: by whom? Alternatively try, "Its goal is to debunk propaganda and misinformation, but its scope was greatly expanded when it replaced the Trust and Safety staff".

• "Posts receiving notes on X are no longer eligible for ad revenue[20][21] and users are no longer able to report misleading content.[22]" This sentence does not really read as intended. It sounds like user's are only no longer able to report misleading content on posts with notes, but I think the sources indicate that no user reports for misleading content are still supported.

• "The program has also been inconsistent in its application of notes and combating of misinformation, especially from the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.[a]" This falls squarely into current events. I like the note itself but I don't think including it in the introduction to the article is appropriate at this time.

History

• "but was considered to be a very small portion" by whom?
• "In October 2022 The Verge found that the most commonly published notes were related to COVID-19 misinformation based on historical usage." This is not encyclopedic. The encyclopedic way to write this is "The most commonly published notes in 2022 were related to COVID-19 misinformation". The citation will show The Verge. You should fix this anywhere you see the same issue.

Operation

• "The program prioritises notes that receives ratings from a "diverse range of perspectives",[7] rather than be based on majority rule,[18] by an open-source algorithm described as "insanely complicated". The structure of this sentence is i,d,d where i is independent clause and d is dependent. This is not a valid sentence structure in the English language. Also prioritises is spelled prioritizes at least in American English. Try "Rather than majority rule publishing, the open-source Community Notes algorithm prioritizes notes that receive positive ratings from a "diverse range of perspectives" The fact that the algorithm is described as complicated is notable but again I ask "by whom?".

• "The contributor gets points if their note is validated,[38][17] known as "Rating Impact", that reflects how helpful a contributors' ratings have been. A contributor unlocks the ability to write notes once they have a "Rating Impact" of at least 5.[10][39][40] Any registered X user with an account older than 6 months can apply to become a contributor, provided they supply a mobile number, the user agrees to abide by the Community Notes guidelines,[7][41] and the user hasn't broken any X rules recently.[32] Users on the platform can additionally vote on whether they find the note helpful or not.[2]" I am not convinced the specific guidelines for how one becomes a contributor are notable. Also they could more easily be changed while the notable part can stay the same: Users must apply to becomes contributors and are restricted based on their "Rating Impact".

Criticism

• "Le Monde concluded that Community Notes were useful, but were not a substitute for conventional moderation." This seems like an opinion piece from a newspaper. Is this really notable?

• "The fact-checking website Snopes discovered three posts from verified users, who had shared a video of a hospitalized man from Gaza with false captions claiming it showed "crisis actors", had failed to receive any Community Notes after 24 hours.[61]" This is another example of non-encyclopedic writing. The content is fine just reword it

• " The ADL documented the possibility of conflicting notes appearing, after Jackson Hinkle falsely claimed a graphic image of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel was AI-generated, and notes initially appeared in disagreement due to unreliable information from AI detector software.[62] " The ADL is not a reputable source.

• " Wired has documented that Community Notes is susceptible to disinformation, after a graphic Hamas video shared by Donald Trump Jr. was falsely flagged as being a year old, but was instead found to be part of the recent conflict.[25] The original note was later replaced with another citing the report from Wired.[9]" I just wanted to point out that this might feel like another case of non-encyclopedic writing it is actually an exception to the rule since Wired becomes part of the notable factual content.

• "In November 2023, the Atlantic Council conducted an interactive study of Community Notes, with analysis from Bloomberg, " non-encyclopedic