Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
JohnCD ( talk) 20:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
←All of this shouldn't be taken to mean that we don't encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia. We encourage everyone to contribute, but we do expect contributions to meet our guidelines. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:School and university projects, which gives some advice, and provides a place to organize these sort of projects. Best of luck, -- Bfigura ( talk) 21:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
How about a project that gives out grades based on which student does the best job on an article from Articles for creation? Enigma message 22:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. You may find this article to be an interesting read. Bovlb ( talk) 22:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
And as the professor behind that project, I should not that I'm currently writing up some Advice on Using Wikipedia in Colleges and Universities. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 23:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
You'll find Wikipedia:School and university projects very helpful in avoiding pitfalls and maximizing your students' performance here. You are also strongly encouraged to register your project on that page. Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 06:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
One thing that might help is to have students work on their article's in their own user namespace. Wikipedia is divided into multiple namespaces (for example, this page is part of the User talk: namespace). Registered users are given a lot of leeway into working in their own namespace. If your students would like to work on "Drafts" of their articles, which may or may not be ready for the main Wikipedia article namespace, they can do so as subpages (see WP:SUBPAGE) of their user namespace. Here's how to do this:
If you students work on their articles in this manner, they are likely to have more time to craft a compliant Wikipedia article. Some other things to remind them of as well:
Good luck, and if you need anymore help with this class project, let me know. As an educator myself, I appreciate what you are doing, and which you and your class great success with it.-- Jayron32. talk. contribs 15:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
It is absolutely essential that your students be made aware of and thoroughly understand Wikipedia's copyright policies and how to upload and document images properly. So far, there are only two problems that I've found. However, as this 100 student project gets under way, these problems are liable to crop up more and more – it's a cause for concern.
I'm sure these are just instances of the students not understanding that cropping and formatting an image or graph from a copyright work does not make it their own work. But they really must be made to understand this. Making false declarations of ownership and/or copyright status can lead to the editor being blocked from Wikipedia. See: [1]. It can also involve Wikipedia in legal trouble.
Since many of these articles are now being moved to user pages, the students must also be made aware that non-free, i.e. copyright, images and media cannot appear in user pages. See: Wikipedia user page guidance. Many thanks, Voceditenore ( talk) 11:32, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JJ98 ( Talk) 18:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
JohnCD ( talk) 20:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
←All of this shouldn't be taken to mean that we don't encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia. We encourage everyone to contribute, but we do expect contributions to meet our guidelines. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:School and university projects, which gives some advice, and provides a place to organize these sort of projects. Best of luck, -- Bfigura ( talk) 21:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
How about a project that gives out grades based on which student does the best job on an article from Articles for creation? Enigma message 22:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. You may find this article to be an interesting read. Bovlb ( talk) 22:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
And as the professor behind that project, I should not that I'm currently writing up some Advice on Using Wikipedia in Colleges and Universities. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 23:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
You'll find Wikipedia:School and university projects very helpful in avoiding pitfalls and maximizing your students' performance here. You are also strongly encouraged to register your project on that page. Best wishes, Voceditenore ( talk) 06:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
One thing that might help is to have students work on their article's in their own user namespace. Wikipedia is divided into multiple namespaces (for example, this page is part of the User talk: namespace). Registered users are given a lot of leeway into working in their own namespace. If your students would like to work on "Drafts" of their articles, which may or may not be ready for the main Wikipedia article namespace, they can do so as subpages (see WP:SUBPAGE) of their user namespace. Here's how to do this:
If you students work on their articles in this manner, they are likely to have more time to craft a compliant Wikipedia article. Some other things to remind them of as well:
Good luck, and if you need anymore help with this class project, let me know. As an educator myself, I appreciate what you are doing, and which you and your class great success with it.-- Jayron32. talk. contribs 15:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
It is absolutely essential that your students be made aware of and thoroughly understand Wikipedia's copyright policies and how to upload and document images properly. So far, there are only two problems that I've found. However, as this 100 student project gets under way, these problems are liable to crop up more and more – it's a cause for concern.
I'm sure these are just instances of the students not understanding that cropping and formatting an image or graph from a copyright work does not make it their own work. But they really must be made to understand this. Making false declarations of ownership and/or copyright status can lead to the editor being blocked from Wikipedia. See: [1]. It can also involve Wikipedia in legal trouble.
Since many of these articles are now being moved to user pages, the students must also be made aware that non-free, i.e. copyright, images and media cannot appear in user pages. See: Wikipedia user page guidance. Many thanks, Voceditenore ( talk) 11:32, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JJ98 ( Talk) 18:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)