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Red Director (
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I have seen that you are noted as an instructor of a UMD course at Wikiedu. I admit that I know nothing of how such are conducted, but have seen some unhappy effects here at Wikipedia, requiring cleanup by others. If you would look in at Talk:Good_Friday#History and the next section to note two different unhappinesses I would appreciate that. My question would be - how do you work to minimize the negative impacts of student edits? Or perhaps more interestingly, how do you yourselves *notice* those negatives? Shenme ( talk) 04:25, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hmm, also, why do the student editor's user pages point to [1] whereas yours points to Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Maryland/Introduction_to_Information_Studies_(Spring_2019). One page has two students as instructors plus you, whereas the WP page has you as the instructor. I just posted 'instructor' questions to two students out of confusion. Good grief. Shenme ( talk) 04:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- @ Shenme: the on-wiki page is a mirror of the page on the Wiki Education dashboard. The on-wiki page exists to make sure that there's a record on Wikipedia of the class, not just something on our server, outside of Wikipedia. Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 17:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Kamala Sankaram
Hello, Musicofasianamerica. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Kamala Sankaram".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. kingboyk ( talk) 17:21, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Musicofasianamerica, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Your first article
- Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
- And feel free to make test edits in the sandbox.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
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sign your name on
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Red Director (
talk) 04:09, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
I have seen that you are noted as an instructor of a UMD course at Wikiedu. I admit that I know nothing of how such are conducted, but have seen some unhappy effects here at Wikipedia, requiring cleanup by others. If you would look in at Talk:Good_Friday#History and the next section to note two different unhappinesses I would appreciate that. My question would be - how do you work to minimize the negative impacts of student edits? Or perhaps more interestingly, how do you yourselves *notice* those negatives? Shenme ( talk) 04:25, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hmm, also, why do the student editor's user pages point to [1] whereas yours points to Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Maryland/Introduction_to_Information_Studies_(Spring_2019). One page has two students as instructors plus you, whereas the WP page has you as the instructor. I just posted 'instructor' questions to two students out of confusion. Good grief. Shenme ( talk) 04:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- @ Shenme: the on-wiki page is a mirror of the page on the Wiki Education dashboard. The on-wiki page exists to make sure that there's a record on Wikipedia of the class, not just something on our server, outside of Wikipedia. Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 17:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Kamala Sankaram
Hello, Musicofasianamerica. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Kamala Sankaram".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. kingboyk ( talk) 17:21, 7 August 2019 (UTC)