User talk:Pflugi

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Valfontis (talk) 21:36, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Not appropriate[edit]

While I appreciate your students' work and it is good for more people to learn to edit wikipedia, a comment like this one from one of your students is very snotty and inappropriate. ANYONE can edit wikipedia and if their edits are not appropriate they WILL be reverted, class project or no. You may want to explain that it's one thing to say "hello, we are working on this for a class project" but it's another to dictate to other editors not to edit. I am going to comment at the class talk page with my comments of what they need to fix, but please understand that no one owns articles here. Montanabw ^(talk) 06:27, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the student in question should not have made that suggestion. Students have been reading about the guidelines re: Wikipedia editing and authoring and should know that no one owns Wikipedia pages or can place a hold on edits to a page. Also, I have explained to them that their assignment grade isn't dependent upon making sure what is live on Wikipedia is what they "want," as Wikipedia isn't under their control. Thanks for your comments and editing, as a Wikipedian. Pflugi (talk) 15:28, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, life's good. I posted at the class page some examples of why wikipedia editors get a bit twitchy when they see the words "class project." Montanabw ^(talk) 18:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Snow dance[edit]

Please tell your students that a page needs content, preferably sourced content, right from the start: just to create an empty page with a title is not good enough. Someone declined a "Speedy deletion" of this page because it was a student assignment. I don't really see why we should give students such leeway: this is an international encyclopedia, not a student lab, and they should experience editing like other editors do. If I had any idea what this article was supposed to be about I might add a lead sentence myself, but as I have no idea whether it's dance, or a film or book of that title, or a philosophical concept, I can't help. Perhaps you could add a sentence yourself? As a regular stub-sorter, I can't even assign it a stub type as I have no idea what this is supposed to be about. PamD 15:23, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the article a particular group of students is currently working on should not have been created as of yet. Students should be aware of this, but, as they are learning, mistakes are bound to happen. I'll let them know I was contacted by an editor and that they should provide an attempt at a lead before beginning to introduce research aspects of the article. From what I understand of the concept of a snow dance, it is a Western cultural concept akin to a rain dance, though primarily involves rituals and urban myths about how to encourage snow days (in elementary school). Thanks again for your help with this. Pflugi (talk) 23:31, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page banners[edit]

There's something wrong with the links in the banners on Talk:Autophobia and Talk:Project Pabst - perhaps you could fix them, and any other banners from your course. Thanks.

I browsed around with curiosity, wanting to see which other articles were being edited by the class after seeing Snow dance on my watchlist. PamD 09:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another editor fixed one of the links. PamD 09:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notices - all of the Talk page course banners should be fixed. The Super-huamnism page will need some additional work because it redirects to Superhuman. This will likely be handled off of Wikipedia with those students. Pflugi (talk) 16:34, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]