Wikipedia has strengthened its content-moderation rules by approving a “speedy deletion” option that allows administrators to remove low-quality, AI-generated articles without the platform’s customary week-long deliberation. The measure, adopted on 5 August, targets entries that contain clear large-language-model prompts such as “Here is your Wikipedia article on…,” or that cite non-existent or irrelevant sources—for example, a beetle study linked in a computer-science write-up. Volunteer editors say the change is intended to curb what some describe as an existential threat: the rapid influx of machine-generated text that outpaces the community’s traditional consensus-building processes. The policy is viewed as a temporary “band-aid,” according to Ilyas Lebleu of WikiProject AI Cleanup, who noted that the framework can be revisited as generative-AI tools and detection methods evolve.