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Hi, Brianda. I thought Ian was listed for CSU/N Gender and culture, but I noticed your welcome at this student's UTP. Did you and Ian swap coverage of that course, or do Welcome messages stand outside the remit of content expert coverage, so whoever gets there first does the welcoming? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, just an FYI on this article assignment for Gaza Strip. Even if there weren't technical (protection) barriers, a very bold choice! Best, CMD ( talk) 04:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
Every term there are about a half dozen to a dozen student editors who immediately rename their accounts. But the WikiEd staff and sometimes the professor continue to post messages on the old user and user talk pages. An example of this is User:Mcming3. I see these pages because I run a Quarry query to find nonexistent User pages and they pop up on the list because there aren't editors with these usernames. Can you think of a way for the lists of students you work with to be updated when a student editor changes their username? Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, just noting this post for the article Communication. This is already an FA, so probably not the best place for the sort of comprehensive editing a course might look for. The student has two other more appropriate articles selected already, so should be possible to just focus on those. Best, CMD ( talk) 20:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda. Four of the articles listed on the course page for Cal State Fullerton's Gender and Technoculture course are listed as contentious topics, and probably others not so designated ought to be. These might be difficult for student editors to deal with. Mathglot ( talk) 09:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda! I'm a student editor looking at editing the page "Germans in Serbia" and I have a couple questions: 1. I recently had someone peer review what I've done so far but they could not locate my list of references. I have this in the Bibliography section. Should I have these somewhere else or can they not see this area for some reason? 2. This page I am editing has a lot of questionable references and it says "reads like a resume" or "reads like an advertisement" - is that because of it's lack of references? THANK YOU! Gopp22 ( talk) 04:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Sjirapanjavat ( talk) 22:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I imagine everyone knows how detrimental I think WikiEd is already, but this really takes the cake. A course for ESL students to practice their English and learn American college essay composition writing, a style actively discouraged. Either the students are going to be prompted to clean up their work and not learn what their college wants, or Wikipedia is going to be left with some essay attempts to clean up. I mean, perennial problems with WikiEd but this time you're encouraging it. Kingsif ( talk) 23:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
...for your kind email, and thanks for all the fine work you do here, shepherding the kids. I was one myself once, and can confirm that I was unbearable. Cheers, Wikishovel ( talk) 00:23, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello Briana! Thank you for the greetings! I'm a student editor and adding to the topic about vanity sizing and was wondering if you can please look it over and provide any feedback to User:Leil4hhh/Vanity sizing/Bibliography Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you!
Sincerely,
Leilah G Leil4hhh ( talk) 00:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to Charles McGruder III. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and please look at the notability criteria WP:NPROF. There is nothing in the current draft, e.g. awards & citations that qualifies. You may be able to add, which is why I have moved it to a draft so you can. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 ( talk) 23:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
hi Brianda , im editing an article on hunza valley and I wanted to know if the following paragraph is neutral enough for wikipedia and some feedback
The establishment of community schools that provide high quality education ,and the influence of the Aga KhanMirs , contributing towards building universities for higher education have directed towards the high literacy rate in Hunza Valley , especially for girls. RachelKarenG ( talk) 15:16, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that some of the students in Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Kansas State University/Introduction to Digital Humanities Spring 2024 (Spring) have chosen a page that is under the GMO CTOP. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:37, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to Trevor David Rhone. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and it is WP:TOOSOON, he does not meet the bar for academic notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 ( talk) 03:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
There's an article being worked on by your students on Arturo Elizondo Bibliography in quite poor shape in the main space in the NPP queue. I'd draftify it, but there has already been significant movement of the page, and I'm loathe to create more of a tangled web. Key issues are title (began sensibly, but now inappropriate), inappropriate template text in the article in mainspace, and some other issues. Perhaps your guidance of the student might be better than someone like me adding templates. Klbrain ( talk) 17:16, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda,
I am running into an issue where a user keeps changing one thing I am writing in my article to something else specific that is objectively false; an author I'm referencing mentioned two specific countries in a text important to my subject, but this user keeps changing one of the countries.
I have been working on an article for Giuseppe Musolino for my class, and I am referencing a famous Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, who wrote about Musolino. Lombroso said that Musolino was destined to become a criminal in part because of the Greek and Albanian heritage in his region; however, a Wiki user keeps changing "Albanian" to "Sicilian." I tried changing it back, and I mentioned how Lombroso specifically said Albanian, not Sicilian, and even translated/used/pointed to the original Italian text written by Lombroso to prove that he said Albanian. This other user responded with an unsourced history of Sicilians and Albanians in the region to demonstrate how I can't be right in mentioning Albanians; however, the author quite literally said "Albanians," not "Sicilians."
What do I do in this situation? I know for a fact that I am correct here, but this person (who is not logged in and uses a different IP address each time) keeps changing this one specific thing. It shouldn't be a subjective matter. I want to avoid an "edit war," but this user seems intent on disseminating false information.
Thanks! WUSTLWikiWarrior ( talk) 16:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Brianda, I recently published a Wikipedia article on Erich Dublon. Shortly after my article was published, it was removed by a user. The user did not explain why they removed my article and also did not comment on my talk page. All the user said was my article was not ready to be published in the main space. I am looking for clarification as to why my article was removed. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide feedback on my article and clarification as to why it was removed. Thank you for your help -- Madisonokon ( talk) 22:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, Just to let you know that we had a little conflict with an editor regarding students' additions to this article. It appears we disrupted an established reference structure regarding how to use a "works cited" rather than a list of references. He removed all student edits. Here is the discussion: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Alleeejandro It has been resolved now and students' edits have been mostly returned. We all learned something new about different types of reference styles on Wikipedia! 1namesake1 ( talk) 16:30, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Brianda,
I am having some issues moving my article to Wikipedia from the sandbox. I have tried a few different things but nothing has worked. Any help would be much appreciated. Here is the link to my sandbox: User:Samvr2001/Treaty of Trentschin Samvr2001 ( talk) 21:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, heads up on this course where Whale shark has been selected. It is a well-developed article and unlikely to be helpful for the stated goals of learning to find sources etc. There are many animal articles in need, but not this one. CMD ( talk) 01:37, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
We are getting a lot of students moving their student sandboxes into the main space of the project. And they have a few things in common, they have page titles like Brianda/Sandbox, they still have sandbox tags on the page and they are in no shape to be in the main space of the project. Most page patrollers are good natured about returning them to User space but it gets harder towards the end of the term when students seem desperate to move them and may do so several times, despite experienced editors moving them back.
So, for the future, please a) tell instructors to tell students that they don't need their student coursework in main space to get a good grade and b) inform student editors about submitting their work to WP:AFC so that their sandboxes can be reviewed by experienced editors prior to being moved to main space. To be positive, I've seen about half a dozen of excellent articles that are suitable for main space but that is probably 1 out of 7 articles I've seen moved to main space. Somehow, students are just not getting the message that anyone can move any draft to main space when they want to without any article review. Even experienced editors often submit their drafts to AFC so it is not out-of-line for beginning editors to be asked to have their first time drafts reviewed.
Thanks again to you and the WikiEd team for the work you do. Have a fun summer break! Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Dear Brianda,
Upon reviewing my peer review grade, I noticed that I received an F grade, which was unexpected as I submitted the assignment on time and put considerable effort into it. However, when I logged in to the Wikipedia page where we conducted the peer review, I couldn't find my work. After some investigation, I discovered that the person I peer reviewed had changed their username, which caused my work to disappear. With this information, I kindly request your assistance in retrieving my work for grading.
Please let me know if there's any additional information you require from me to resolve this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this issue.
Sincerely,
Moza Alshamsi Pause and Peruse ( talk) 19:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
I hope as the semester winds down, you good folks at WikiEd will be in line for a little break for the summertime.
I was following up on a student's multiple page moves to different namespaces and in trying to get the draft back into the editor's sandbox, another editor pointed out this instruction in a syllabus. It took me aback! This wording is exactly the problem regular editors on the project face towards the end of the school term. If you review instructors' syllabi please be sure there are no instructions, especially in the headline, not just advising but telling students to move their work into the "main space" of the project.
While there are some courses who train student editors to do excellent work, who write properly referenced draft articles and clean up the drafts like removing sandbox page tags and giving the draft a proper page title, this is not the case for the majority of student work we come in contact with. And it seems like students are not advised about Article for Creation review so if a draft gets a positive peer review, they think it's good to go! So, if any instructions to students to move their work into the "main space" of Wikipedia could be changed or altered so that students aren't given misleading instructions that would help them out as well as the regular editors of the project especially those on the New Page Patrol who could simply tag these drafts for deletion.
Thanks again for all of the good work the WikiEd team does all year. Liz Read! Talk! 17:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello.
I need help with... finding the sandbox to put in potential edits for Wikipedia articles in my course.
-- Ddoi24 ( talk) 05:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to have the original page I'm editing auto-import into my sandbox? Or do I copy and paste each section? I'm new to wikipedia editing and I appreciate your assistance! HannahG1701 ( talk) 18:31, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello.
I need help with...deleting this page or ursurping this page for another Wikipedia page I made.
--
Gormclee (
talk)
16:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Brianda (Wiki Ed)!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Safari Scribe
Edits!
Talk!
06:47, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, Brianda. I thought Ian was listed for CSU/N Gender and culture, but I noticed your welcome at this student's UTP. Did you and Ian swap coverage of that course, or do Welcome messages stand outside the remit of content expert coverage, so whoever gets there first does the welcoming? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, just an FYI on this article assignment for Gaza Strip. Even if there weren't technical (protection) barriers, a very bold choice! Best, CMD ( talk) 04:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
Every term there are about a half dozen to a dozen student editors who immediately rename their accounts. But the WikiEd staff and sometimes the professor continue to post messages on the old user and user talk pages. An example of this is User:Mcming3. I see these pages because I run a Quarry query to find nonexistent User pages and they pop up on the list because there aren't editors with these usernames. Can you think of a way for the lists of students you work with to be updated when a student editor changes their username? Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, just noting this post for the article Communication. This is already an FA, so probably not the best place for the sort of comprehensive editing a course might look for. The student has two other more appropriate articles selected already, so should be possible to just focus on those. Best, CMD ( talk) 20:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda. Four of the articles listed on the course page for Cal State Fullerton's Gender and Technoculture course are listed as contentious topics, and probably others not so designated ought to be. These might be difficult for student editors to deal with. Mathglot ( talk) 09:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda! I'm a student editor looking at editing the page "Germans in Serbia" and I have a couple questions: 1. I recently had someone peer review what I've done so far but they could not locate my list of references. I have this in the Bibliography section. Should I have these somewhere else or can they not see this area for some reason? 2. This page I am editing has a lot of questionable references and it says "reads like a resume" or "reads like an advertisement" - is that because of it's lack of references? THANK YOU! Gopp22 ( talk) 04:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Sjirapanjavat ( talk) 22:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I imagine everyone knows how detrimental I think WikiEd is already, but this really takes the cake. A course for ESL students to practice their English and learn American college essay composition writing, a style actively discouraged. Either the students are going to be prompted to clean up their work and not learn what their college wants, or Wikipedia is going to be left with some essay attempts to clean up. I mean, perennial problems with WikiEd but this time you're encouraging it. Kingsif ( talk) 23:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
...for your kind email, and thanks for all the fine work you do here, shepherding the kids. I was one myself once, and can confirm that I was unbearable. Cheers, Wikishovel ( talk) 00:23, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello Briana! Thank you for the greetings! I'm a student editor and adding to the topic about vanity sizing and was wondering if you can please look it over and provide any feedback to User:Leil4hhh/Vanity sizing/Bibliography Any feedback would be appreciated, thank you!
Sincerely,
Leilah G Leil4hhh ( talk) 00:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to Charles McGruder III. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and please look at the notability criteria WP:NPROF. There is nothing in the current draft, e.g. awards & citations that qualifies. You may be able to add, which is why I have moved it to a draft so you can. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 ( talk) 23:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
hi Brianda , im editing an article on hunza valley and I wanted to know if the following paragraph is neutral enough for wikipedia and some feedback
The establishment of community schools that provide high quality education ,and the influence of the Aga KhanMirs , contributing towards building universities for higher education have directed towards the high literacy rate in Hunza Valley , especially for girls. RachelKarenG ( talk) 15:16, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that some of the students in Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Kansas State University/Introduction to Digital Humanities Spring 2024 (Spring) have chosen a page that is under the GMO CTOP. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:37, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to Trevor David Rhone. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and it is WP:TOOSOON, he does not meet the bar for academic notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 ( talk) 03:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
There's an article being worked on by your students on Arturo Elizondo Bibliography in quite poor shape in the main space in the NPP queue. I'd draftify it, but there has already been significant movement of the page, and I'm loathe to create more of a tangled web. Key issues are title (began sensibly, but now inappropriate), inappropriate template text in the article in mainspace, and some other issues. Perhaps your guidance of the student might be better than someone like me adding templates. Klbrain ( talk) 17:16, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda,
I am running into an issue where a user keeps changing one thing I am writing in my article to something else specific that is objectively false; an author I'm referencing mentioned two specific countries in a text important to my subject, but this user keeps changing one of the countries.
I have been working on an article for Giuseppe Musolino for my class, and I am referencing a famous Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, who wrote about Musolino. Lombroso said that Musolino was destined to become a criminal in part because of the Greek and Albanian heritage in his region; however, a Wiki user keeps changing "Albanian" to "Sicilian." I tried changing it back, and I mentioned how Lombroso specifically said Albanian, not Sicilian, and even translated/used/pointed to the original Italian text written by Lombroso to prove that he said Albanian. This other user responded with an unsourced history of Sicilians and Albanians in the region to demonstrate how I can't be right in mentioning Albanians; however, the author quite literally said "Albanians," not "Sicilians."
What do I do in this situation? I know for a fact that I am correct here, but this person (who is not logged in and uses a different IP address each time) keeps changing this one specific thing. It shouldn't be a subjective matter. I want to avoid an "edit war," but this user seems intent on disseminating false information.
Thanks! WUSTLWikiWarrior ( talk) 16:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Brianda, I recently published a Wikipedia article on Erich Dublon. Shortly after my article was published, it was removed by a user. The user did not explain why they removed my article and also did not comment on my talk page. All the user said was my article was not ready to be published in the main space. I am looking for clarification as to why my article was removed. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide feedback on my article and clarification as to why it was removed. Thank you for your help -- Madisonokon ( talk) 22:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, Just to let you know that we had a little conflict with an editor regarding students' additions to this article. It appears we disrupted an established reference structure regarding how to use a "works cited" rather than a list of references. He removed all student edits. Here is the discussion: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Alleeejandro It has been resolved now and students' edits have been mostly returned. We all learned something new about different types of reference styles on Wikipedia! 1namesake1 ( talk) 16:30, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Brianda,
I am having some issues moving my article to Wikipedia from the sandbox. I have tried a few different things but nothing has worked. Any help would be much appreciated. Here is the link to my sandbox: User:Samvr2001/Treaty of Trentschin Samvr2001 ( talk) 21:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Brianda, heads up on this course where Whale shark has been selected. It is a well-developed article and unlikely to be helpful for the stated goals of learning to find sources etc. There are many animal articles in need, but not this one. CMD ( talk) 01:37, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
We are getting a lot of students moving their student sandboxes into the main space of the project. And they have a few things in common, they have page titles like Brianda/Sandbox, they still have sandbox tags on the page and they are in no shape to be in the main space of the project. Most page patrollers are good natured about returning them to User space but it gets harder towards the end of the term when students seem desperate to move them and may do so several times, despite experienced editors moving them back.
So, for the future, please a) tell instructors to tell students that they don't need their student coursework in main space to get a good grade and b) inform student editors about submitting their work to WP:AFC so that their sandboxes can be reviewed by experienced editors prior to being moved to main space. To be positive, I've seen about half a dozen of excellent articles that are suitable for main space but that is probably 1 out of 7 articles I've seen moved to main space. Somehow, students are just not getting the message that anyone can move any draft to main space when they want to without any article review. Even experienced editors often submit their drafts to AFC so it is not out-of-line for beginning editors to be asked to have their first time drafts reviewed.
Thanks again to you and the WikiEd team for the work you do. Have a fun summer break! Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Dear Brianda,
Upon reviewing my peer review grade, I noticed that I received an F grade, which was unexpected as I submitted the assignment on time and put considerable effort into it. However, when I logged in to the Wikipedia page where we conducted the peer review, I couldn't find my work. After some investigation, I discovered that the person I peer reviewed had changed their username, which caused my work to disappear. With this information, I kindly request your assistance in retrieving my work for grading.
Please let me know if there's any additional information you require from me to resolve this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this issue.
Sincerely,
Moza Alshamsi Pause and Peruse ( talk) 19:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda,
I hope as the semester winds down, you good folks at WikiEd will be in line for a little break for the summertime.
I was following up on a student's multiple page moves to different namespaces and in trying to get the draft back into the editor's sandbox, another editor pointed out this instruction in a syllabus. It took me aback! This wording is exactly the problem regular editors on the project face towards the end of the school term. If you review instructors' syllabi please be sure there are no instructions, especially in the headline, not just advising but telling students to move their work into the "main space" of the project.
While there are some courses who train student editors to do excellent work, who write properly referenced draft articles and clean up the drafts like removing sandbox page tags and giving the draft a proper page title, this is not the case for the majority of student work we come in contact with. And it seems like students are not advised about Article for Creation review so if a draft gets a positive peer review, they think it's good to go! So, if any instructions to students to move their work into the "main space" of Wikipedia could be changed or altered so that students aren't given misleading instructions that would help them out as well as the regular editors of the project especially those on the New Page Patrol who could simply tag these drafts for deletion.
Thanks again for all of the good work the WikiEd team does all year. Liz Read! Talk! 17:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello.
I need help with... finding the sandbox to put in potential edits for Wikipedia articles in my course.
-- Ddoi24 ( talk) 05:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to have the original page I'm editing auto-import into my sandbox? Or do I copy and paste each section? I'm new to wikipedia editing and I appreciate your assistance! HannahG1701 ( talk) 18:31, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello.
I need help with...deleting this page or ursurping this page for another Wikipedia page I made.
--
Gormclee (
talk)
16:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
![]() |
Hello, Brianda (Wiki Ed)!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Safari Scribe
Edits!
Talk!
06:47, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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