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Proposed deletion of Psychology and Sustainability[edit]

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Evolutionary Psychology of Consciousness[edit]

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Typo. Fixed. Psyc-mmills (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you've made a lot of stub articles related to a university project. You - or your professor - are going to want to make sure you've had a look at Our guidelines for school projects. Note also that disclaimers don't go in the article text, ever - you're gonna want to go back through and move that notice about the project to the article talk pages (as I did at Talk:Evolutionary Psychology of Ethics and Morality, for example). UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 17:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- will do. Psyc-mmills (talk) 17:48, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to say exactly the same as Ultraexactzz. The horse seems to have already bolted here, but you should understand that some awareness of how Wikipedia works is needed before such a project is started. Many of the articles being created appear to be on good topics for traditional essay assignments, but not necessarily good topics for encyclopedia articles. Remember that this is first and foremost the world's largest encyclopedia, where any updates are immediately visible to anyone, so we cannot give any special treatment to articles on the basis that they are part of an assignment. They will be evaluated and, if necessary, changed beyond recognition or even deleted in the same way that any other Wikipedia article can be if it doesn't conform to our policies and guidelines. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:04, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input. The articles currently have no links to them, so I don't expect much traffic. They are labeled as stubs. Input from other editors is welcomed, and, that will likely be part of the learning process per WP university projects. Psyc-mmills (talk) 18:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some more advice[edit]

...in random order. If you are not the person in charge of this class project, please ask them to read it.

Please read Wikipedia:School and University Projects and register this project there.
There is a link there to help set up a central page for the project. It is extremely helpful to have there a list of the usernames of the person in charge and of all the students involved, and of the articles being worked on.
For general advice read WP:Your first article and for proper article structure read WP:Writing better articles.
Important: read WP:Copy-paste. Wikipedia takes copyright extremely seriously: copyright material will be deleted, and anyone who continues to post copyright violations after warning may be blocked from editing. The issue here is not plagiarism, which is a matter of academic standards, but copyright violation, which is a legal concern.
Nobody "owns" a Wikipedia article; anyone may edit it, and articles cannot be "reserved" for a project. For that reason, and because obviously incomplete articles may be tagged for deletion, you may prefer to start articles as drafts in a user sub-page. You can do that by going to Help:Userspace draft and filling in the title.
One important difference between a normal student paper and a Wikipedia article is that the point of a student paper is often to draw a new conclusion by combining established facts. In Wikipedia, that is called "synthesis" and is forbidden. Everyone should read in full the important policy WP:No original research, in particular the section "Synthesis of published material that advances a position": "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."
There is group of editors interested in psychology at Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology and it would be useful to leave a note of your project on their talk page.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am the person in charge -- thanks for the info and advice. Students have already been assigned WP tutorials, and their contributions will be closely monitored to conform to WP policies. I will check out the additional links, Psyc-mmills (talk) 21:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is better for Wikipedia and for your students if you concentrate on improving existing articles rather than creating new ones. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:15, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Evolutionary Psychology of Ethics and Morality[edit]

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Your contributed article, Evolutionary Psychology of Kinship and Family[edit]

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Your contributed article, Evolutionary Psychology of Language[edit]

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Your contributed article, Evolutionary psychology of emotion and motivation[edit]

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Problems with creating new stubs[edit]

I see you have created a number of stub articles, with the intention that they will be expanded by students. The idea there is fine, but there are some problems with the way you have done it, and I thought it might help if I explained some of them.

A Wikipedia article is addressed to the readers of the encyclopaedia, not to fellow editors. An article should be about its subject, not about the process of writing an article about that subject. An article should therefore not contain such text as "NOTE: This is a stub, and it will be expanded as a university class project until May 10, 2013 under the auspices of the Association for Psychological Science Wikipedia Initiative."
While it is acceptable to create a very brief article, with a view to expanding it later, an article full of empty section headings is not helpful. As soon as an article is created, it becomes publicly visible as part of the encyclopaedia, and should be in a state which is fit for public viewing. If you wish to create an outline article, with empty headings to fill in later, notes about editing it, etc, then you should do so as a temporary userspace page, not as an article. Consequently I have moved the article Psychology and sustainability to User:Psyc-mmills/Psychology and sustainability. it can be moved back if and when it is suitable as an article.
It is not acceptable to create a new article by copying and pasting content from another article. Apart from the fact that duplication of content in different places is unhelpful and can lead to problems, there is also the fact that doing so without attribution is an infringement of the authors' copyright. Unlike the problems I have already mentioned, this is not a problem which can be solved by moving the article into userspace, and such articles are likely to be speedily deleted.
Please think very carefully before making content forks on topics which have existing articles. Fragmenting information about one subject into numerous separate articles can be unhelpful, and it is better not to do this unless you are certain that the sub-topics really do warrant separate stand-alone articles. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise I have moved User:Psyc-mmills/Evolutionary psychology of cognition. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:46, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looking above, I see that you had already been informed of some of these issues, but had not acted on them. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:03, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Evolutionary Psychology of Group (Non-kin) Interactions[edit]

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Your contributed article, Evolutionary psychology of abnormal behavior[edit]

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Your contributed article, Evolutionary psychology of sex differences[edit]

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Please stop[edit]

From the notices you've been given above and the pages that have been deleted, it is clear that you are not sufficiently conversant with Wikipedia's content guidelines and editing policies to be running a class here. If you want to use Wikipedia editing as an educational tool - and believe me, we want you to do that - then please sign up to the Wikipedia Education Progam, get a course page set up and work with one or more of our Online Ambassadors to create a suitable course for your students. If you continue creating inappropriate content, then we will - with some regret - be obliged to block your account from editing. There are ways of using Wikipedia for the purposes you intend, but if you continue to insist on disregarding them, you will not be permitted to continue editing here. Yunshui 雲‍水 13:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of assignment are you trying to run here?[edit]

It seems you need help learning how things work here. Would you like to learn? One page for this very purpose is WP:AFSE. You could start by looking that over. Do you have any questions? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 19:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, we were going to work to expand on the stubs, as I noted above. Too much much of a hassle, tho. Back to regular term papers, I'm afraid. Psyc-mmills (talk) 03:17, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the trouble! But there are other options. What about improving exisiting articles that aren't stubs? See my idea here, for example. Wikipedia:Peer_review/Deep_vein_thrombosis/archive3 is a peer reivew I was given and I have addressed most points so far. Biosthmors (talk) 03:37, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings[edit]

I see here you're talking about papers with introductions and conclusions. The WP:LEAD should summarize the entire article, but there is no "conclusion" section to Wikipedia articles. We shouldn't create a situation that only engenders dissatisfied students, deleted articles, frustrated volunteers, and possibly a few low-quality {{essay-like}} articles. Would you agree? Have you already started the semester, given a syllabus, and now you're wedded to the idea at all costs? Would you mind sending me an email? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 04:32, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]