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A new user has just created an assignment in mainspace. Can somebody assist her with getting this placed properly? — C.Fred ( talk) 22:45, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
User:SW 6352-090 Heather, Gabrielle, Laurel and Naima
They and others are making a mess of things:
It looks like the online University of Utah has a course by the SW-6352-090 designator, if that helps any. Crow Caw 23:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at User talk:PsychMajor15, and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Looks like similar editing from one unregistered psych course-- no evidence of knowledge of MEDRS. Editors whose first edit is to drop in a bunch of text, with edit warring. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:Epigenetics of human herpesvirus latency regarding an (unregistered?) course at UT-Austin, and two sub-par articles at Epigenetics of Childhood Abuse and Trauma and Epigenetics of human herpesvirus latency created by Mfstolm and Jkmayfield.77521? Could someone attempt to contact a professor, and could a friendly admin possibly userfy these articles so we don't have to clean up? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:13, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Of these, 96 were maltreated children removed from their parents' care due to reports of abuse and/or neglect within 6 months of study enrollment, and 96 were controls with no history of maltreatment or exposure to intrafamilial violence." [2]
Healthcare providers and others charged with caring for this vulnerable population who understand the social setting of foster care and its impact on developmental health may help identify and treat developmental problems earlier, thus potentially reducing long-term effects of abuse and neglect." [3]
And, as pointed out by KateWishing, I'm quite troubled when well-meaning editors clean up student pages without first checking for copyvio. Everyone's time is wasted-- again. This time, I will let it be someone else's problem. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Adam (Wiki Ed):, this course is old, but looks like a good starting place. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:28, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
@ SandyGeorgia: Thanks for posting that syllabus. I have just emailed the professor to see if this is his course. Helaine (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 17:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Were you all able to make any progress here? Helaine (Wiki Ed)? I've got epigenetics going on elsewhere. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 07:38, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Just noted some 'odd' editing, possibly a group assignment, related to child protection & similar issues at Termination of parental rights. (And other pages)
The editing was unusual in that 4 very new accounts, plus the page creator Termpar ( talk · contribs), have been editing that page, and/or related pages. 2 of those 4 accounts, and the page creators', were created on 9 September, the other 2 on 7 September. I have queried if this is an educational assignment at Termpar's talk page, and directed them to Wikipedia:School and university projects if so.
I have just seen that at 'Termpar' has also edited at Child dependency or neglect proceedings, created by Dasfsadkjhl ( talk · contribs) about 8 hours ago, who was also one of the four newby editors at Termination of parental rights. Both also edited Child Protective Services, and Termpar created Criticism of Child Protective Services about 4 1/2 hours ago, so there is almost certainly some connection between the accounts. 220 of Borg 05:25, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
I believe that we have a course at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi that has assigned students to create articles related to a Design for manufacturability course. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Somesh9041. Would it be possible to get some assistance from the Education Program on tracking this down and some guidance on how to handle this? I would be happy to restore all of the deleted articles and move them to an appropriate space where they won't get deleted (Draft? User?) while this course is going on. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 07:43, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
When do you think this will be ready? Another question. I will be working on medical content with the University of Pittsburgh. When I come across an article (reference) that may of value to students who are given assignments to create/edit an article as part of their coursework, would it be alright to leave the reference on the talk page of the article? I understand that student-edited/created articles should be left alone, but if I locate a good reference, it may be helpful. I would just provide a bare url and a sentence about the source. Best Regards,
Can I get some help for these students? See this. -- NeilN talk to me 00:09, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
You're right, these people are students participating in a biochemistry project I supervise. They are 4 people working progressively on the term until October 30. They need to complete a good-looking article by that day. As his supervisor, I will talk to them to change their attitude. I'll explain your concerns and urge them to proceed correctly according to the rules of Wikipedia and following your advice. My apologies RodriguezAllue ( talk) 11:07, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
@ RodriguezAllue: The students editing Pneumocandin Bo do not appear to have understood your explanations about adding sources for their content. Please remind them (a) to add references, (b) that those references should look like references in a normal academic paper, not just be a single article title, and (c) that adding a bare URL as an "External link" is not adequate referencing for an encyclopedia article. Thank you. Pam D 22:30, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
@ RodriguezAllue: The students still seem not to understand how to add a reference: in a written piece of work, would you accept a reference consisting of an article title and a journal title, with no date, author, volume or page number? They appear to think that's all that's needed. Please offer your students better training before sending them out to edit the encyclopedia. Thank you. Pam D 18:22, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
please help me . what do I do to learn how to post and edit on Wikipedia ,and remain private — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.138.107 ( talk) 05:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
This poor stub (now improved slightly and tagged) was produced by an editor whose user page says "For TELL Assignment". UNEJ appears to be a university in Indonesia (though you wouldn't know it from the stub as written). Presumably if one student is writing a Wikipedia page as an assignment they won't be alone. Pam D 12:59, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
At Talk:Association_of_American_Medical_Colleges#Copyright_violation_notice there is talk of a student in Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/College of DuPage/ENGLI1102-088 Academic Writing and the Meaning of Knowledge (Fall 2015) copying images and text. The student says it is okay because it came from the organization's website. Ian (Wiki Ed), do you have this one? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:53, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
There are a couple of articles Transurfing of Reality and Vadim Zeland which are receiving some attention and one ofthe editors has said "Also, I am doing this as part of our University Wikipedia project, please don't delete it or merge it now, can you at least for now undo this tag for deletion, until I have finished editing the Article." Just mentioning it here as a heads-up. I'll leave a note on the student's talk page. Pam D 10:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
There's apparently a project encouraging New South Wales high school students to create articles about women, supported by ABC. See a teacher's comment here while opposing a CSD nomination: "Two Year 9 students wrote the article and as their teacher supervising them, I had to publish it yesterday as it was due to the Project organiser." etc. I've offered advice on her talk page. Pam D 00:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to mention this, but this is the Incidents board for Education on WP, so I figured I'd get this out here. I was looking over the history of the Bourne End Academy page, given that it was my old secondary school (I left before the name change in 2014), when I noticed that a user named User:BourneEndAcad was editing the page. I believe this may be someone in the school itself attempting to alter the article, as they were making rather big changes such as uploading a logo for the school and providing information that is highly specific to the establishment itself. I doubt that there's any shred of paid editing involved, but I thought it was generally discouraged to edit articles that you have a personal interest or connection with, including if you are an employee or staff member of the establishment, company or school. I hope I'm not in the wrong place about this. -- BrayLockBoy ( talk) 14:35, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
See Alice Stopford Green (Project). I've slapped a Merge template on it to merge to the existing Alice Stopford Green, and left the editor a note. The article was created in editor's sandbox but then moved to main space with the edit summary "Project for college". No indication of what college, or how many other students on the same course are doing the same sad waste of effort by creating duplicate articles (with lots of refs but no inline refs, no wikilinks ... basically a college essay dumped into the encyclopedia).
Oh dear, just checked out the image and found it's "Own work" - a nice sketch of someone who died in 1929. Hmmm. Pam D 15:17, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
There seems to be a postgrad project at Maine - see Talk:Plant strategies. I've left a note there and added the "Educational assignment" template, and left a note at User talk:IceAgeDoc. Pam D 08:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm not naming names as I'm not sure this rises to the level of "incident" so forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this, but it it typical to "workshop" educational assignment articles on article talk pages? By this I mean filling them up with walls of text that may include complete proposed rewrites of sections or whole articles. If there's a quick link to the guideline I'd appreciate it, I don't have time at the moment to look it up and wanted to register my alarm at this phenomenon here. I'm thinking a subpage or sandbox would be a better place for this sort of thing. Valfontis ( talk) 18:49, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, just been alerted to an
active {{Help me}} some of you may be interested in. Looks like an educator which needs to be introduced to some "Education folk". If you respond, could you please deactivate the help me template? Cheers
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samtar
whisper 22:06, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Greetings: A recently joined user apparently works for or is a student at Arcata High School. They added a long and overdetailed list, I removed it and explained about reliable secondary sources. They added a long and uncited "history" of the school; I have been unable to verify this "history". The comments on the section restorations imply that I'm in error by removing uncited material, and despite my friendly suggestions, they seem to be on their own roll and not understanding about references. In the external references section has been added some link to an art center which has no apparent connection to the school. I am a bureaucrat and administrator on Commons and while I'm familiar with some of the en:wiki processes for situations like this, I am not an expert. Rather than edit-warring on this, I am coming to you for assistance. Ellin Beltz ( talk) 15:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps there's a class studying the DC/Tacoma Park area (perhaps from Maryland? perhaps in urban studies or sociology?), since today I saw two brand new articles by two brand new editors on very closely related topics: Draft:Sammie Abdullah Abbott from User:Chocolate City student; a second article, Draft:Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis from User: Alessandragrossman that uses as primary reference a FORTHCOMING book called Chocolate City ("Chris Myers Asch with G. Derek Musgrove, Chocolate City: Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).") If there *is* a class, I'd encourage students to fill out their Talk page, and to link to a central page describing the class. If this *isn't* a class, then it's even more of a mystery... Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 06:02, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
I came across Sexual fluidity where Flyer22 Reborn was working with some students who appear to be part of a class project. No ambassador, or class page in sight.. so am bringing it to your attention.
Nmuggleton seems to be the instructor. Not sure. But there is a very big list of users in Nmuggleton's contribs: Special:Contributions/Nmuggleton that she appears to be trying to manage.
Would be great if you all could figure out what is going on there and help them get oriented. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 23:33, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone has an idea about the Rutgers class project here but I've listed Template:Under construction/Rutgers for deletion at TFD. As noted, the template was created months ago and has a corresponding category, Category:Articles in class projects/Rutgers that was emptied and deleted in December 2015 so I presume articles were tagged then as well, untagged, and the category gets used/emptied in that fashion. Both having an giant under construction sign on the page, deterring most people here from editing it, and a category that goes in and out of usefulness seems like a strange mechanism.
Separate from the TFD issue, I would suggest that students be encouraged to use draftspace instead: they can fork over a copy of the current articles (with attribution which isn't a lot), work out and create a draft version for the semester, and we'll merge back the contents at the end of the term. That should be better in terms of problematic additions that are probably fine for a class but not for us while not destroying or losing the material that they do add. I'm sure this has been suggested before but I wanted to get more eyes about the template/category issue at the moment. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 10:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Samantha (Wiki Ed) the professor identifies himself at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Languages#Rutgers_University_Class_Project as User:Chuck Haberl. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 22:51, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Hello, please see Depression in college students which claims to be an educational assignment. The author claims here that this article is here for a class project and "will be taken down in a few weeks", and that they will fail the class if the article is deleted. While nobody wants to see that happen, the article is in pretty poor shape inclusion-wise. I don't know if this is related to any WMF courses or if they are just using WP as a convenient sandbox. Advice? Crow Caw 19:11, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
So this article was a student assignment last semester, doesn't appear there was a course page set up, no mention of the professor's user name (though there is a link to a contact page for her) and it's kind of a mess now. I don't like to complain on the talk page because I got the impression the students were doing their best, but...well, I've made a start on cleaning it up, but I wanted to notify other possibly-interested editors, hoping this is the right place to do that. Should I contact the professor? I kind of hate to do so as I wouldn't want to discourage her from doing another class project, but it would be good if she would set up a course page next time. valereee ( talk) 15:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
There are questions about an account used by a class at USC at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Problematic school shared account?. Comments there would be welcomed. Thanks, ansh 666 00:12, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
There has been multiple creations of articles about minor parks of Michigan, claimed to be part of a school project. See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Problematic_User and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/ReillyG13 for the gist of it. Pinging @ Mckenzie1248, ReillyG13, Ashton donaldson, WikiDan61, and ThePlatypusofDoom: it looks more appropriate to discuss it here, there will be people who know how to handle school projects on Wikipedia, and I have faith the multiple creations will cease without needing to resort to AN/I. Tigraan Click here to contact me 15:40, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
According to this, the article Bernardo Florencio Javalquinto-Lagos was created as an "academic task". Is there someone who could reach out to this editor appropriately? — Brianhe ( talk) 03:38, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm just a regular editor unfamiliar with Wikipedia's education program, but have come across what appears to be a student -- who may be in a small amount of distress at the moment. I have no idea how to tell if they're in a registered class. The student -- Lobzang412 -- is in danger of having their article Restructuring of power sytem (sic) deleted. Any non-admin teachers would not be able to see the contribution history. Is there anything special I can/should do to help this person? -- Larry/Traveling_Man ( talk)
See:
Both of these users are adding references with links to that university's library site and are editing about health (badly), and are completely nonresponsive. I have already reported one to WP:EWN and am about to report the other. Don't know if there is some course involved here. Jytdog ( talk) 00:49, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Sockpuppet investigation. Nil Einne ( talk) 16:56, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Students from this course are actively editing/creating medical articles in mainspace and ~appear~ to have received no training; they are adding COPYVIO content, badly sourced (fail both MEDRS, RS, or both) or unsourced content, incomplete citations to the point where they cannot be used to verify content, etc. Please intervene. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 18:11, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Presbyphonia was first created as pure copyvio, deleted, then recreated, and it now looks as if the editor has copied their supposed references from their sources, unread. When I queried the "telephone interview conducted 2014" (ref 3 of this version) they just removed it. No edit summaries, ever. Pam D 21:11, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
I just chanced upon an SPI Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BQUB16-Mgravalos. These may be students, see ca:Viquiprojecte:Bioquímica_UB on the Catalan Wikipedia. Can anyone help to verify? -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 15:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Apparently @ Pppppptabe: needs to make said page to "pass year 12". A picture of a dead fish ( talk) 04:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Daoasamoah: created page Daoasamoah saying that "Our lecturer, Mr. Anane told us to create a page on Wikipedia." A picture of a dead fish ( talk) 00:54, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Class is directly editing the article, adding unsourced content, WP:UNDUE content, badly formatted content, etc. This course: Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UC Berkeley/IB35AC Wikipedia Project- Section 106 (Fall). User:Ian (Wiki Ed) is listed as the WP person there. Edit warring now too. Jytdog ( talk) 22:39, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
A class from a program there, taught by Dr. Robert Lodder, seems not to be entirely aware of how things work here, and their edits drew attention at WT:PHARM#Somewhat strange article expansions and WP:COIN#Odd appearance of multiple accounts editing about pharmaceuticals. Things were resolved at User talk:Kelltastic, but it would be very good if the WMF folks would reach out to the class. Thanks! -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:28, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi! Can someone please remove User:JustJess_PhD's ability to start courses? JustJess PhD is not WP:COMPETENT for that role. See her and my talkpages, and the results of this course (most of it has been deleted already). Before responding, please take 30 minutes to check the results of that course and read our talkpages, otherwise you'll think I am overly dramatic and/or an asshole. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 22:56, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#College_project_that.27s_introducing_copyvios.2C_plagiarism.2C_OR_and_Non-NPOV_content_to_wide_variety_of_Indian_history_articles. Pam D 12:40, 29 January 2017 (UTC)