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Welcome[edit]

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Student article up for deletion[edit]

Please note that one of your student articles is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ithaca Bakery and Collegetown Bagels. They have been notified of the notability issue before, and the community is waiting to hear back from them. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 19:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Looks like it got deleted. The last version can be "userified" to one of the creators (or anyone else, probably) if a request is made to the closing administrator. I did add some sources before it got deleted but I knew they probably weren't enough.--Milowent • hasspoken 00:16, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • I made a request for userfication at the closing admin's talk page, but the admin made a valid point that neither the students nor the instructor seemed interested in saving the article, as no comments where made at the AfD pages. He is willing to userfy the article if the instructor and students tell him that they actually plan to try to improve the article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 18:13, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for helping out on this. I am leaving this to the students to decide if they want to improve the article, now that the assignment is officially over. LeshedInstructor (talk) 19:30, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brick Lane Market[edit]

Hi, I thought I should draw your attention to a fairly major overhaul that I made at Brick Lane Market after the recent assignment on that page. I hope this does not discourage your students, as I kept a good deal of their work.[1] – Fayenatic London 19:55, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for making these changes -- for the better. The assignment is now officially over, but I do encourage the students to keep up watching the articles they worked on, continue being part of the group of people who care about it, and perhaps contribute more to it. LeshedInstructor (talk) 02:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Long-distance running[edit]

Hi there! I've responded to your question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Running. Please get back to me if you need any more advice or suggestions. Sounds exciting! SFB 21:25, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Note[edit]

Hi LeshedInstructor, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the course instructor right to your account, as you have demonstrated a need for it through the Wikipedia Education Program. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and will just allow you to be able to access the course extension as well as create and edit course pages. If you are interested in accessing the course extension so that you might be able to create a course page right now, here is the link. For more information on the course instructor right, see this page. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 20:35, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

COMM/INFO 3460 Online Communities Fall 2013[edit]

Links to user pages[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reysabri - rehan sabri rs642 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reysabri (talk • contribs) 23:32, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Torisaunders Victoria Saunders vjs37 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Torisaunders (talk • contribs) 18:38, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Avoid some articles[edit]

You may wish to ask your students to avoid articles related to corporate sponsors of Cornell. Monsanto and Bayer etc. Also articles these corporations are involved in like Genetically modified organism related articles. See: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest as to why.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. This is very helpful. LeshedInstructor (talk) 14:21, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violations - a request[edit]

Please could you ensure that your students are made aware of Wikipedia's policy regarding copyright infringement. I have just had to delete the sandbox page of one student because the majority of the text was directly copied from a book. Wikipedia does not tolerate the insertion of text which has been copyrighted elsewhere, even in sandbox pages, unless that text has been released under a suitable free licence (CC-BY-SA or GFDL). Contributors who violate this rule repeatedly are routinely blocked from editing for the good of the project; obviously we don't want that happening if it can be helped. Thanks, Yunshui 雲‍水 22:07, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Boy, is my face red... turns out the copyright violation was not the student's fault; all of the offending text was actually taken from the pre-existing article. It looks as though the book may itself be a copy of an old version of Wikipedia; either way, your student is completely blameless. Sorry for casting aspersions. Yunshui 雲‍水 22:44, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hemispheric bias[edit]

I apologise if my previous attempt to notify you about Wikipedia's guidelines for avoiding hemispheric bias were misdirected. I followed the link from the Teahouse posted by one of your students, to the talk page of Verizon FiOS, and ultimately to your course page as linked in the notice added by this edit. You appear to be consistently violating the chronological guidelines for seasonal references in the Wikipedia Manual of Style (MOS). While this may be appropriate at Cornell University, on Wikipedia it would be preferable if you were to adopt a more hemisphere-neutral tone.

Also, as an instructor of a course that teaches about "Engaging in discussion with other Wikipedia editors" and "Reflecting on the process of becoming part of the Wikipedia community", I would have expected more from you than just reverting my honest attempt to engage you in discussion on this issue. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 21:03, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@AugurNZ: Thanks for giving some feedback to Professor Leshed about her class. The "Fall 2013" bias you speak of is simply a notification for other editors to know that a class in the US has edited an article. The semester is relevant in the US, and many other classes use this banner at our suggestion in the Wikipedia Education Program. I hope you won't take it as an affront to the Southern hemisphere. :) Instructors are simply following the process our community of editors in the program put together many terms ago, so as to notify any interested editors that student editors are working on the article. Also, Professor Leshed is training her students to work within the norms and policies of Wikipedia, but each editor is still new and does not necessarily know every Wikipedia policy. I hope you will assume good faith and be patient with these new editors, as they are genuinely trying to learn about best practices as they move along. Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 18:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@JMathewson (WMF): Thank you for the clarification. Is there a specific reason why the hemispherically biased term "Fall" needs to be used to indicate a school term on Wikipedia, when the more inclusive form of naming the months is just as simple to use, as per consensus established in WP:SEASON? I'm just trying to understand why the WMF is apparently advocating for, and entrenching systemic bias here, particularly when you are teaching adult students how to use and participate in an internationally edited encyclopedia. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 18:53, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
WP:SEASON (and, in fact, the MOS as a whole) is relevant only to article content. There is no Wikipedia guideline preventing instructors and students from referring to their classes on talkpages with seasonal references; indeed, since that is how US universities distinguish their semesters, it actually makes more sense to do so. Please don't keep harassing LeshedInstructor over this; you are misinterpreting the guideline and are also being rather officious towards a group of newer editors. Don't come down like a ton of bricks - especially when you're in the wrong. Yunshui 雲‍水 07:57, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you JMathewson (WMF), Ktr101, Yunshui, PiRSquared17 and others for helping my students and me through this discussion. AugurNZ: I understand your goal to make Wikipedia more hemisphere-neutral. Thank you for raising the issue to make us aware of it. LeshedInstructor (talk) 14:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Yunshui: Thank you for finally being the voice of reason in this whole discussion. As I am a new editor on Wikipedia myself (you even gave feedback on my first substantive edit on Wikipedia recently), I was unaware that the MOS only applies to articles, not to their talk pages. If my first attempt at raising this issue had been met with such a response, this issue would not have snowballed the way it did, and I would not have ended up so frustrated by (what appeared to me to be) the Professor's attempts to stonewall my honest efforts to contact her in this regard. A lot has been made of the fact that Professor Leshed is new to Wikipedia. Nobody seems to have acknowledged the fact that I'm also a new editor. A lot has also been made of my further responses in this matter, with claims of "biting the newbies", "attacking", and "being officious". This was never my intention, and I do apologise to all concerned (including those with whom I am now not allowed to communicate with, due to this issue).
My final comment on this issue will be that, had my original message been responded to with a simple response like "WP:SEASON (and, in fact, the MOS as a whole) is relevant only to article content", this would all have ended there and then. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 21:19, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@AugurNZ: It really was just an attempt at identifying the time period in which the student edits the article. Using the months wouldn't necessarily make sense because a classroom assignment typically takes place over 3-5 months. Not all classes use the banners these days, but some professors like their students to notify any interested editors that the page was a part of a course assignment (as requested long ago by some editors). These same classes tend to post suggested edits on talk pages—all essentially in an attempt to seek feedback/input from other editors and so as not to inundate anyone with a large group of new editors. The semesters in the States are typically referred to by the season, and these banners are used frequently within the program taking place in the US and Canada. Some classes use "Quarter 1/2/3/4," but that tends to confuse students, meaning they don't post the banner. It's genuinely set up as an internal notifier that an editor was assigned to work on that article. I hope you understand and don't take offense to the language. JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 18:52, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nominations[edit]

Greetings,

Based upon that contents of your userpage and today's activity at Template talk:Did you know, I suspect that students in your class received a suggestion to nominate an article for DYK. Unfortunately the nominations so far received that appear to be related to your class (Template:Did you know nominations/French Toast, Template:Did you know nominations/Bread, Template:Did you know nominations/Cold air damming, Template:Did you know nominations/Dunkin' Donuts, and Template:Did you know nominations/Pocahontas (1995 film)) are all well short of the size increase needed to qualify as a 5x expansion and as a result these nominations will very likely fail. To reduce frustration on the part of your students and to prevent needless extra effort on part of DYK regulars, could you ask your students to read the DYK rules that provide information on article eligibility criteria and other useful details. They may also find Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines useful as it contains additional explanations on how DYK calculates expansion sizes. --Allen3 talk 20:18, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information Allen3. We are working under a strict time constraint to complete the project, and while we received a suggestion from our Wikimedia Ambassadors to nominate the articles for DYK, we did not get a lot of guidance about the DYK process and procedures. We are just doing our best. If you could post some more information about the course page or on the specific articles' talk pages, that would be very appreciated. Thank you! LeshedInstructor (talk) 20:23, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reply at Meta-Wiki

Hello LeshedInstructor! Thank you for contacting me at my centralized profile on Meta-Wiki. I have left a reply to your message Not_really_sure_what_you_meant there.
You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{User:AugurNZ/Talkback}} notice from your talk page.

AugurNZ ✐⌕ 21:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to WikiProject Breakfast[edit]

Hello, LeshedInstructor.

You are invited to join WikiProject Breakfast, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of breakfast-related topics.

To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:46, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]


  • You get an invitation too, per recent improvements to breakfast-related articles! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 14:46, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Awards[edit]

The Anti-Flame Barnstar
As I was looking through the barnstars to give to those editors who helped us through our editing process, I saw this one and it made me think of the 'Hemispheric Bias' issue that manifested itself on your talk page recently. It is intended for those who keep their cool in conflicts, and for users who help resolve them. I think the editors who assisted you in ameliorating this situation deserve these as well! CBCompton (talk) 02:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Christian! This is heartwarming, and I appreciate your efforts in giving barnstars to those who help - people like you are what makes this place a community. LeshedInstructor (talk) 13:22, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Joining Cornell University[edit]

hello I came to know that you are Instructor at Cornell university. I too want to join this university to take the course on Online communities provided by your university. so, I would like you to process myself as the candidate for student in your university in the above course. It would be better if you mentioned the procedure of getting Enrollment token for the course. Thank you. krishna chalise(talk) krishna chalise 09:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I encourage you to go to the University website and check how you can apply and become a student. Once you're a Cornell student, depending on your college, major of study, and progress in your studies, you can enroll in the course and participate in the activities related to the Wikipedia assignment in this class. LeshedInstructor (talk) 13:16, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

About course talk page[edit]

Hello instructor,I have added my group including my article as Binod Chaudhary but I came to know that you have deleted it. Do I have to ask about it? If yes why it happened to my group. The article was about the first billionaire of Nepal bringing evolutionary changes in noodles companies. The CG company also belongs to him which is a Billion dollar multi national company of nepal. Hope you are replying soon.krishna chalise (talk) krishna chalise 02:26, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Krishna418:: please see my response to you above. I do not accept students who are not enrolled in the COMM/INFO 3460 through Cornell University. This is an assignment through the course taught at Cornell, and is restricted to students in my class. LeshedInstructor (talk) 18:30, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, LeshedInstructor. You have new messages at Talk:Pizza.
Message added 16:30, 22 September 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

NorthAmerica1000 16:30, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

April 2017[edit]

Information icon Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Zwinky, from its old location at User:LeshedInstructor/Zwinky. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America1000 21:15, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It looks as if you might have departed[edit]

...but if you are still editing, please stop in at the Maria Popova article, at your convenience. Earlier I had, like you, engaged students at the university where I was teaching, in WP editing. It would be interesting to see what you thnk of some of the recent criticisms of the content at that article, in the context of, e.g., Lipson's UChicago book, "Doing Honest Work...". Bottom line, would be interesting to engage another faculty member introducing students to WP content generation. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:9B0:2C97:D5B0:DA12:FD4B (talk) 01:40, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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