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We interacted briefly regarding your past class on medical missionaries, and I see now that it was meaningful to your students and that you want to do it again. I am writing to offer some online support. If you like, I could give you training through video conference and I would also be able to solicit some community review for your class's work.
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Thanks for the message. EST mornings are good for me. Chat is fine. Mondays and Fridays are usually best.
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I removed your name from our Articles for Creation (AfC) participants list. Although your account is not new, you don't yet have the required 500 un-deleted main namespace edits. There was a dialog on that page explaining the requirements. AfC is not for newcomers as it takes some experience with Wikipedia's guidelines to justly evaluate drafts. If you have draft articles you're concerned about, you're always welcome to post a question at our AfC help desk. Chris Troutman ( talk) 14:58, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks so much for removing. While I don't have 500 edits I have been an AfC participant before the 500 minimum was there, use three different professional and personal user names, and have teach a university class on Wikipedia article creation and editing so that my last 40 students have over 2000 edits under my supervision. Since those do not accrue to my user name they don't matter to some. Perhaps we have a different perspective on roles and how criteria should be applied. I would welcome you and others who spend time removing AfC participants to spend some time actually clearing the AfC backlog.
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Kent, you may have noticed that I have flagged a number of your students' contributions for
notability concerns, as well as moving a couple to draft space.
While you have been using wikipedia with students for a number of years, I am concerned that your students do not seem to have a good grasp of notability requirements (
this was a particularly egregious example but many others show no real sourcing outside of the missionary organisation that sent the person).
I'm also unclear why your students are not encouraged to use the
WP:AFC process (where they can receive and respond to feedback) rather than moving poorly written and poorly sourced articles into the main space of the encyclopedia (again,
this was an obvious example where the student had clearly labeled it as a draft but still put it into main space). Are you approving these moves (as per
WP:INSTRUCTORS)?
I understand that these are students doing their best, but once in mainspace, their articles should meet the same standards as all others, and I can only imagine they are discouraged when experienced editors here template or move their work due to these issues.
Can you please clarify your own understanding of (a) the approval process for your students to move articles into the main space and (b) of the
notability requirements you are working with for medical missionaries? Thank you
Melcous (
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In particular, please require students to obtain your approval before moving content from sandboxes into the main article space., did you approve this move of an article with extremely poor notability, and did you approve the move of Charles Stiebel (Medical Missionary) to mainspace even though it was headed as a draft at the time? Melcous ( talk) 00:22, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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We interacted briefly regarding your past class on medical missionaries, and I see now that it was meaningful to your students and that you want to do it again. I am writing to offer some online support. If you like, I could give you training through video conference and I would also be able to solicit some community review for your class's work.
I am most often free during EST mornings, but could chat at other times. A chat is not necessary but I would like to make it an option for you. If you ever would like to talk, contact me through Special:EmailUser/Bluerasberry. I want your class to succeed because I support Wikipedia's educational outreach program and because I want health articles on Wikipedia to be developed. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:31, 24 October 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks for the message. EST mornings are good for me. Chat is fine. Mondays and Fridays are usually best.
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Thanks so much for removing. While I don't have 500 edits I have been an AfC participant before the 500 minimum was there, use three different professional and personal user names, and have teach a university class on Wikipedia article creation and editing so that my last 40 students have over 2000 edits under my supervision. Since those do not accrue to my user name they don't matter to some. Perhaps we have a different perspective on roles and how criteria should be applied. I would welcome you and others who spend time removing AfC participants to spend some time actually clearing the AfC backlog.
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78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 14:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)Please complete the student training. If you have already gone through it, be sure to click the button at the end to record that you finished it. -- Breamk ( talk) 03:43, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Category:Missionaries in India requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Kent, you may have noticed that I have flagged a number of your students' contributions for
notability concerns, as well as moving a couple to draft space.
While you have been using wikipedia with students for a number of years, I am concerned that your students do not seem to have a good grasp of notability requirements (
this was a particularly egregious example but many others show no real sourcing outside of the missionary organisation that sent the person).
I'm also unclear why your students are not encouraged to use the
WP:AFC process (where they can receive and respond to feedback) rather than moving poorly written and poorly sourced articles into the main space of the encyclopedia (again,
this was an obvious example where the student had clearly labeled it as a draft but still put it into main space). Are you approving these moves (as per
WP:INSTRUCTORS)?
I understand that these are students doing their best, but once in mainspace, their articles should meet the same standards as all others, and I can only imagine they are discouraged when experienced editors here template or move their work due to these issues.
Can you please clarify your own understanding of (a) the approval process for your students to move articles into the main space and (b) of the
notability requirements you are working with for medical missionaries? Thank you
Melcous (
talk) 00:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
In particular, please require students to obtain your approval before moving content from sandboxes into the main article space., did you approve this move of an article with extremely poor notability, and did you approve the move of Charles Stiebel (Medical Missionary) to mainspace even though it was headed as a draft at the time? Melcous ( talk) 00:22, 8 January 2024 (UTC)