In November - December 2023 I am facilitating an Educational Project by students of LIUC, Italy, with a course page at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/LIUC_-_Universit%C3%A0_Cattaneo/Digital_Technology_(Autumn_2023). It is the 9th year we have run this. The users of the group are new to the Wikipedia platform, have completed WikiEd Training for Students modules, and are learning to edit following Wikipedia rules. They are open to any advice on improvements of the page in conformity to Wikipedia requirements and guidelines, and any help useful for the enhancement of the page will be gladly accepted. Some of the student User account names will have 'LIUC' in them so be similar. Edits by different users may have identical IP addresses due to the use of the university network. These users are listed with their assigned draft articles at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/LIUC_-_Universit%C3%A0_Cattaneo/Digital_Technology_(Autumn_2023)/articles/assigned. Limelightangel ( talk) 08:44, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Limelightangel. I see I've been here before, years ago. I will unblock the accounts, but let me place two notes. First, the account I looked at first had overlap with someone, an LTA, who was blocked yesterday for socking--and the student account made very similar edits (copy edits by someone who clearly was not an L1 speaker or writer in English). I have already emailed that blocking administrator to ask for their advice.
Second, I just saw that user page image on one of the accounts, but I cannot really figure out what that means. I strongly recommend you run your project through the educational project. The edits from your students do NOT at all indicate that they are in an educational project; taking the guided sandbox tour is no longer a giveaway since many socks and vandals use that too. If I had seen any edits that for instance looked like the editor was signing up for a project, or an edit that linked to your user space, maybe to a sign-up sheet, I would have followed that, and that might have prevented this whole affair. Please remember that the things that are automatically clear to you are not always clear to other editors. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 17:17, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
And please point your students to WP:OVERLINK. Many of their edits link things that shouldn't be linked at all, like countries and such. Also explain to them that links shouldn't be inline, and that we need secondary sources, not company links. Finally, I have reverted a number of "grammatical fixes" already, since they actually introduced grammatical errors (same with italics, bold). Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 17:29, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Limelightangel, I want to ask you if you can ask your students to be more clear about their status, specifically as part of an educational project. None of the many editors in the history of this draft had indicated anything about what they were doing, and some had very similar user names, which made me very suspicious, especially since that draft is highly promotional. I dropped a note on the talk page of one of them, but got no reply. Transparency is key in such assignments, and I encourage you to enroll your students in our educational arm, via Wikipedia:School and university projects. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 13:05, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
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MatthewVanitas ( talk) 16:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)Please advise your students to follow some of the basic rules outlined in the Manual of Style, especially those on bolding, duplicate links, and overlinked terms. They have also removed valid {{ citation needed}} tags from statements without providing a source. I've been reverting quite a few of their edits over the past few hours and see that there's still hundreds that need to be checked for compliance. Sounder Bruce 10:41, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi!
I was looking at this version of Draft:Asplund Pavilion, a draft created as a part of a class for which you are listed as facilitator. The version copies several paragraphs verbatim from " From the Hut to the Totem: An Archetypal Analysis of the Holy See's Eleven Chapels at the Venice Architecture Biennale" a 2022 paper written by Marta Isabel Sena Augusto and Vidal Gómez Martínez that was published in the Athens Journal of Architecture. The paragraphs were added to the Wikipedia draft as follows, by the following students:
The article from the Athens Journal of Architecture is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license. These licensing terms require prohibit re-use for commercial purposes. While your students' use in a classroom setting would ordinarily be OK under this license (provided that proper attribution is given), use of this material verbatim is incompatible licenses under which Wikipedia itself is published ( CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL), because these licenses allow commercial re-use. For this reason, Wikipedia rejects licenses that limit use exclusively to Wikipedia or for non-commercial purposes. If the paper is to be used as a source for the Wikipedia draft, the content in the draft will need to be in the students' own words.
For these reasons, I have tagged the affected sections as constituting a copyright problem, and I have listed it on today's copyright problems list. The sections will need to be re-written to comply with our copyright policy. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns; I'd be more than happy to help.
— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 18:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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In November - December 2023 I am facilitating an Educational Project by students of LIUC, Italy, with a course page at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/LIUC_-_Universit%C3%A0_Cattaneo/Digital_Technology_(Autumn_2023). It is the 9th year we have run this. The users of the group are new to the Wikipedia platform, have completed WikiEd Training for Students modules, and are learning to edit following Wikipedia rules. They are open to any advice on improvements of the page in conformity to Wikipedia requirements and guidelines, and any help useful for the enhancement of the page will be gladly accepted. Some of the student User account names will have 'LIUC' in them so be similar. Edits by different users may have identical IP addresses due to the use of the university network. These users are listed with their assigned draft articles at: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/LIUC_-_Universit%C3%A0_Cattaneo/Digital_Technology_(Autumn_2023)/articles/assigned. Limelightangel ( talk) 08:44, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Limelightangel. I see I've been here before, years ago. I will unblock the accounts, but let me place two notes. First, the account I looked at first had overlap with someone, an LTA, who was blocked yesterday for socking--and the student account made very similar edits (copy edits by someone who clearly was not an L1 speaker or writer in English). I have already emailed that blocking administrator to ask for their advice.
Second, I just saw that user page image on one of the accounts, but I cannot really figure out what that means. I strongly recommend you run your project through the educational project. The edits from your students do NOT at all indicate that they are in an educational project; taking the guided sandbox tour is no longer a giveaway since many socks and vandals use that too. If I had seen any edits that for instance looked like the editor was signing up for a project, or an edit that linked to your user space, maybe to a sign-up sheet, I would have followed that, and that might have prevented this whole affair. Please remember that the things that are automatically clear to you are not always clear to other editors. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 17:17, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
And please point your students to WP:OVERLINK. Many of their edits link things that shouldn't be linked at all, like countries and such. Also explain to them that links shouldn't be inline, and that we need secondary sources, not company links. Finally, I have reverted a number of "grammatical fixes" already, since they actually introduced grammatical errors (same with italics, bold). Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 17:29, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Limelightangel, I want to ask you if you can ask your students to be more clear about their status, specifically as part of an educational project. None of the many editors in the history of this draft had indicated anything about what they were doing, and some had very similar user names, which made me very suspicious, especially since that draft is highly promotional. I dropped a note on the talk page of one of them, but got no reply. Transparency is key in such assignments, and I encourage you to enroll your students in our educational arm, via Wikipedia:School and university projects. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 13:05, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!
MatthewVanitas ( talk) 16:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)Please advise your students to follow some of the basic rules outlined in the Manual of Style, especially those on bolding, duplicate links, and overlinked terms. They have also removed valid {{ citation needed}} tags from statements without providing a source. I've been reverting quite a few of their edits over the past few hours and see that there's still hundreds that need to be checked for compliance. Sounder Bruce 10:41, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi!
I was looking at this version of Draft:Asplund Pavilion, a draft created as a part of a class for which you are listed as facilitator. The version copies several paragraphs verbatim from " From the Hut to the Totem: An Archetypal Analysis of the Holy See's Eleven Chapels at the Venice Architecture Biennale" a 2022 paper written by Marta Isabel Sena Augusto and Vidal Gómez Martínez that was published in the Athens Journal of Architecture. The paragraphs were added to the Wikipedia draft as follows, by the following students:
The article from the Athens Journal of Architecture is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license. These licensing terms require prohibit re-use for commercial purposes. While your students' use in a classroom setting would ordinarily be OK under this license (provided that proper attribution is given), use of this material verbatim is incompatible licenses under which Wikipedia itself is published ( CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL), because these licenses allow commercial re-use. For this reason, Wikipedia rejects licenses that limit use exclusively to Wikipedia or for non-commercial purposes. If the paper is to be used as a source for the Wikipedia draft, the content in the draft will need to be in the students' own words.
For these reasons, I have tagged the affected sections as constituting a copyright problem, and I have listed it on today's copyright problems list. The sections will need to be re-written to comply with our copyright policy. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns; I'd be more than happy to help.
— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 18:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Draft:Millstone Edge, was deleted as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Liz Read! Talk! 03:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)