User talk:Glenn.dolphin

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Hello, Glenn.dolphin, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 19:20, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Article titles[edit]

I note that you are the instructor for Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Calgary/Introductory Geology (Fall 2016). I also note that many of the article assignments are biographies with titles of the form, <Last>, <First> <Middle>. Please note that at the English language Wikipedia, the standard form for the title of a biography is <First> [<Middle>] <Last> (only use the middle name if the person was commonly known to use their middle name.) For example, the we have Albert Einstein, not Einstein, Albert (the latter redirects to the former), and John Lennon, not John Winston Lennon (again, the latter redirects to the former), but James Clerk Maxwell (as he is commonly known using his middle name). For further information, please see WP:MOSNAME. I urge you to pass this information on to your students so that they create articles at the proper titles. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 19:39, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiDan61: Hi Dan. I'm not really sure if I am doing this correctly. Thanks for the tip on the names of articles. Is there an easy way for students who have started work already to change to the appropriate name order? Thanks.. Glenn.dolphin (talk) 23:05, 27 October 2016 (UTC)Glenn[reply]

The students probably don't have enough edits to have gained the privilege of moving a page, but you probably do. Look at WP:Page moves. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 03:26, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just chiming in on this, I've noticed that some of the red-linked articles on the course page actually correspond to existing articles, e.g. there is currently no article Guppy, Eileen, but there is Eileen Guppy. We don't want students to start duplicate articles when the subject is already covered by a different title. To better identify existing articles, you could either change the names of assigned articles to "first name, last name", or, if it is desired to keep the last, first structure, you could pipe the intended article title, red-linked or not, e.g. [[Eileen Guppy|Guppy, Eileen]] yields Guppy, Eileen. In this way, if a student clicks on a red link the article will be created under the correct name --Animalparty! (talk) 22:31, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. I wish I had know about the convention prior to making my list. I may try to change them, but the project is already almost over, for the term. I'll have them check to see if there is another site and to do their editing there instead of the article I have listed. I can also send your instructions to my class for changing their work into the proper name convention. Glenn

Edits[edit]

Hello!

I just wanted to inform you that some of the students in your very large class seem not to be adding proper references to their articles. As I am unaware of the use of the educational dashboard, I do not know how it works, but there should be proper references.

Thanks, Adotchar (talk) 23:22, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Adotchar! I'm on it... :) Glenn

Edith Merritt McKee[edit]

Hi, please see my note at Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/University of Calgary/Introductory Geology (Fall 2016). TJRC (talk) 22:30, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request for info from your archive[edit]

I see one of your students, User:Dcbirn, cited Marguerite Williams dissertation from "OP31248 University Microfilms International, The Taylor Family Digital Library." Do you have access to that, can you check if she states who is her doctoral advisor? I've been trying to run that down. Any help would be much appreciated. Trilotat (talk) 18:18, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]