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    Welcome to the Education Program Incidents page.

    This page is for reporting and discussing specific incidents related to student editing and/or the Education Program on the English Wikipedia that require the intervention of experienced editors and/or administrators.

    Topics may include:

    • Content issues created by real or potential student assignments
    • Unresponsive classrooms or those editing with poorly managed or structured courses
    • Classrooms editing without a course page or with an ambiguous page
    • And any other issue that might relate to student assignments


    Of course, we should remain civil towards all participants and assume good faith.

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    Where possible and relevant, please include the following information with any report: Article(s), Course, Instructor, Online volunteers, and Student.

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    "NSC 100 Class"

    Course: Neuroscience 100, Middlebury College, no course page
    Articles:
    Instructor: Midd Intro Neuro
    Students: Many

    Beginning list so articles can be examined (this is the same unregistered course that created agraphia, which is in good shape after extensive editing by Dolfrog, Anthonyhcole and myself.) Midd Intro Neuro, could you please let us know what the course is and what other articles have been edited, so they can be reviewed? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:18, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Sandy, We appreciate your attention to our pages. Both as a college class and as an institution, we are committed to ensuring that the final products are high quality. To be clear, the course is ongoing until the end of this week. We would be happy to follow up with you on the projects’ status at our talk page for Midd Intro Neuro. We are happy to implement whatever strategies necessary to ensure quality Wikipages and to discuss strategies for future classes and have left you message to that effect. Also at our talk page, you will find a list of the topics for the class. As per the guidelines for this page, we would prefer to work out resolutions on the talk page for the course. Our librarian will also be weighing in at that page. Please comment there. Thanks! (Talk) Midd Intro Neuro (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:03, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Midd Intro Neuro, One thing right off the bat that might be helpful would be if you did have a course page. Perhaps Jami (Wiki Ed) can explain to you how to set one up. If your students are still working, it would be nice if they added page numbers on book sources; without page nos, text isn't verifiable, and I'm seeing at least one article that I'm thinking will end up deleted for lack of verifiable sources. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:58, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, SandyGeorgia. I sent a message to offer to help create one. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:45, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    For whatever it's worth, I really think we need to be communicating on-wiki instead of using email as the primary means of communications. Victoria (talk) 17:50, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, this business of communicating offWiki creates all kinds of issues, including expectations from education program that the rest of us will do the same. I also fail to see why this course is insisting on communication on a user talk page; it's very strange. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:42, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks very much for your offer, Jami. It's much appreciated, and we'll take advantage of it as soon as we can! Lots more conversation is on the Midd Intro Neuro talk page, so I'll let the dialogue remain consolidated there.Carriemacfar (talk) 20:44, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Carriemacfar, you suggested you would be willing to help; what would you suggest doing with Neural masculinization? It was sourced to a book without page numbers, student papers online, and a rat study. I suggest it might be prodded. Once you take away the definition of estrogen and testosterone (which everyone knows), I can't tell what's left or what the topic even is. That's only the second article I've looked at, and I'm concerned that the students may be writing on topics well above their level.SandyGeorgia (Talk) 09:08, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Editorializing needs to be checked in all. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:19, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Probably not, but as a non-admin I could suggest Neuroscience of gender differences as a merge target. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:55, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Good, thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:41, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Mechanoreception in star-nosed mole

    Mechanoreception in star-nosed mole appears to be a student essay of some description. I've AfD'd it. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:05, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    "Potentially disruptive class project?"

    Articles
    Course: Unknown (UC Irvine ?) Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism/Students
    Instructor: Wadewitz
    Students: Stellaiyeo, Midgeholland, TaviWright, SaraForemanLhanlon, Cynst76

    ...or so it is described at ANI, The issue was raised first at the NPOV Noticeboard where more details are available. Course and instructor currently unknown. Voceditenore (talk) 12:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, Voceditenore; I started listing the students and courses, and one of their contribs led to a course that appears to be somehow related to Wadewitz. Once I found the course, I stopped listing students and articles; perhaps Wadewitz will respond to the NPOV noticeboard thread [1] and the ANI thread. [2] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:01, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Methodology of heuristics

    I've just PROD'd Methodology of heuristics. To quote the PROD "A student essay on a made-up topic. Google scholar gives less than 100 hits for "Methodology of heuristics" as a phrase. Many of the sources are primary sources for this topic. The tone is completely unencyclopaedic." Stuartyeates (talk) 10:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Brain and Behavior (Lisa Lu)

    Article: Hallucination (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
    Course: Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Brain and Behavior (Lisa Lu)
    Instructor: Neuropsychprof
    Online volunteers: Keilana, Smallman12q
    Students: RyanFinn20 (talk · contribs · logs) ThatsSoAleks (talk · contribs · logs), NikolazSalinas (talk · contribs · logs)

    I am parking this here because all of this student work needs to be checked. Anthonyhcole pointed out on my talk that this incorrect and uncited information,[3] inserted by these students over a year ago,[4] stood until yesterday.[5] This is an indication that neither the prof nor the online instructors reviewed the editing from this class, and the result was incorrect information that stood on Wikipedia for over a year.

    Does anyone ever check course work after term-end? Will anyone check this old course work? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:40, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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