Wikipedia Autobiographical Promotion Detector

Quantitative analysis of self-promotional signals in Wikipedia biographies
Enter a category name to analyse its biography articles for autobiographical promotion signals. Non-biography articles are automatically filtered out.
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Results

# Article POV Score Editors Length Peacock Citations Account
Methodology & Scoring

Each article is scored across five dimensions. Sub-scores are normalised to 0–1 and combined with the following weights:

SignalWeightWhat it measures
Editor Concentration30%Byte share of top editor via revision history. High = one person wrote almost everything.
Peacock Language25%Density of promotional/superlative terms (WP:PEACOCK + WP:WEASEL word lists).
Length Anomaly20%Article size relative to the category median. Outsized articles score higher.
Citation Quality15%Proportion of references using self-published, primary, or obscure sources.
Account Signals10%Whether the creator dominates the revision history, edits anonymously, or made rapid bulk additions.

Interpretation

Scores ≥ 0.65 (red) suggest strong autobiographical promotion signals. Scores 0.40–0.65 (amber) warrant a closer look. Scores < 0.40 (teal) are likely organic. This is a heuristic — always verify manually before taking action.

Limitations

The tool uses the MediaWiki API with limited revision depth (configurable). Token-level authorship (WikiWho) is not used. Citation analysis checks domain patterns, not full source reliability. Some legitimate articles about obscure-but-notable people may score high.