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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.

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    Can someone here, who has time, take a look at W. B. Yeats. It's a featured article and apparently part of a class project, [1]. I'm sorry if I've been bitey, and probably it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a campus ambassador with better people skills than I have to explain the complexities of editing featured articles. Also, I think that's something that should be mentioned in the training. My inclination right now is to let them do the work and then revert after they're done. Victoria (tk) 00:13, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    I took a look, and I think that what you and other experienced editors have been doing is fine. I noticed that you said on the talk page that you were concerned that the students' grades might be affected. You may find it helpful to see WP:NOTTA, where it is made clear that student grades are never Wikipedia editors' problem, and you should feel free to revert whatever needs to be reverted, following the usual practices of talk page discussion (as you have been doing). If student edits are reverted, putting the students through the process of going to talk is, or ought to be, part of the education process, once an instructor has decided to use Wikipedia (and instructors who haven't thought of that aren't doing their jobs). I see that the students have already had Template:Welcome student put on their talk pages (one red-linked editor has not, not sure if that's a student, but maybe that one should get it too), so that's exactly right. Anyway, stewardship of FAs trumps any perceived student "own"ership of a page. --Tryptofish (talk) 16:33, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks Tryptofish for responding. After sleeping on this and thinking about it, I agree with you. I'll probably end up reverting again, but first will try to go through the page, figure out what was done, and explain why I've reverted (which will be a huge task as it was basically done in a single edit). At that point edits can be added back if consensus is achieved. It would be nice if we could determine who is running this class and have some outreach. I get the sense that we're *only* Wikipedia editors and perhaps don't understand the subject, and my view is that professors should never assume who might be curating or what their qualifications are. Anyway, this will take a lot of time to sort out. Also, since I'm here posting a general call out to the people who are involved with Wiki Ed: this is the last week of classes for many colleges in the US. I, myself, have final projects to grade this week, and so am very busy, yet at the same time am dealing with the Yeats issue and another that was brought to my attention on my talk - is there any chance of getting more eyes on these boards in the next few weeks? Thanks. Victoria (tk) 17:55, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Good luck with that :) The Education Program has ruined all of my Thanksgiving holidays for quite a few years now, since students are cramming to get bad edits in just as US editors are preparing for holidays. The Education Program is little able to do much about that, and few professors seem aware of WP:OWN#Featured articles. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:09, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I don’t have any record of this student being in a Wiki Ed affiliated course, and we prioritize helping student editors (especially during busy times like now) who are enrolled in the courses we’re affiliated with. That being said, if you or anyone else does get in touch with the instructor, I encourage you to connect them with us so the instructor and students can go through our system next term, hopefully heading off problems like this in the future. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC) [reply]
    So you would like us to do the leg-work, even though we're unpaid volunteers? Victoria (tk) 22:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Let me be super clear: Wiki Ed takes full responsibility for classes that we have brought to Wikipedia. We train those instructors, we check their assignment design to make sure it's good for Wikipedia, and we step in if those classes have problems. When we have time, we're happy to help out with classes that are not part of our program, just like any other community member can, and as Helaine said, we're happy to try to educate instructors (assuming this class is a university class and in the US or Canada, which is the boundaries we work in) about how to do good Wikipedia assignments so they can be part of our program in the future. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict) To Victoriaearle's point, perhaps Template:Welcome student (and Template:Welcome medical student) should either be strengthened, to tell students to tell their instructor of the need to identify themselves and the course, or a new template should be created for that purpose. As I see it, once one of us unpaid volunteers has put a useful message via template on a student editor's talkpage, there really isn't a reason for us to dig deeper than that. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:11, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    We can hat this or archive it or whatever. Thanks LiAnna for being super clear. Got the message. Loud and clear. Victoria (tk) 23:19, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Adding: LiAnna, I think your comment was quite rude, given that there are unpaid volunteers who have historically done quite a bit at this time of year. I've spent almost as much time today trying to help students from an unknown class as I have on the assignment I'm working on for my own class. Oh, yes, btw. I am a professor and I've been bringing students through here each semester for the past five years. But I've done it outside of WikiEd because I don't share your philosophy. I've had some conversations with a few people who are interested about how I do what I do, but mostly your group isn't interested. Which is fine. However, insulting an unpaid volunteer who is trying to help, trying to make things easier for students, and at the same time hoping to get the professor's attention is not helpful. Finding the class isn't hard. It can be done by looking at the contribs, the editors, etc. I'll follow up on my own with the university and try to find the professor because right now I'm ashamed that we invite students to edit here and yet when an unpaid volunteer asks for assistance the reply is prefaced by a "Let me be super clear". Victoria (tk) 23:47, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    @Victoriaearle: I'm sorry that I came off sounding rude or insulting to you; that wasn't my intent at all. I was trying to clarify what we take full responsibility for and what we feel should go through normal community processes. Clearly I didn't do that effectively, and I apologize for coming off as insulting to you. As this is the busiest time of year for both of us, now is not a good time, but maybe in a few weeks we could have a Skype call to talk about our difference in philosophy you refer to? I'd be really interested to talk with you more about that. If that's something you'd be willing to do, let me know, and I'll set a calendar reminder for myself to ping you in early January so we can schedule a time to talk more. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:03, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Class from Lexington Kentucky

    Issues with copy and pasting and use of primary sources. Lot of them. Editing pharmacology related topics. Anyone know who they are? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:01, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Okay 19 of them. Have received little instruction. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:28, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Have sent instructions through one of the students. Still unclear who the prof is. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:13, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Class on search engine optimization editing Wikipedia?

    See also WP:COIN#Link_building,

    These two new users have been adding links to articles related to search engine optimization. This, of course, attracted attention, and they've been hammered with all the usual warnings. "Hnancy" writes on WP:COIN:

    "Hnancy (talk) 05:08, 3 December 2014 (UTC) Hello that I am an informatics student at UW and it is really my class project to edit a wikipedia page. Previously I tried to make a new topic called "link popularity" but later I adopted teacher's advice to work on the link building page. Moz didn't pay me at all and I even never heard of this company before. I accidentally used the resource from searchenginejournal because I think it is authentical and it has the resources I needed(I didn't realize that it has backlinks to Moz.)i actually could't finish my homework right now because I couldn't add new contents to the page. I am now editing the conflicts section and I try to add a brief section called "link building tactics" (which is highly related to link building I think). I hope I can finish these edits today so I am able to turn in my homework."

    Assuming this is correct, somewhere there's an instructor at UW who issued a really bad assignment. Adding spammy-looking links to the link building article was certain to attract attention. That may have been the point. It takes lots of time to clean this up, and if there's enough of it, it can lead to a schoolblock. Can anyone find the instructor responsible and get them a clue? Here's the University of Washington information systems course list for the current quarter.[2] Thanks. John Nagle (talk) 02:41, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Husnain is just spamming. I don't see that he has anything to do with the other user, except that they both pounded on the article at roughly the same time. Choess (talk) 05:18, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Environmental effects of basketballs is about to be closed as delete. The author is in Template:Course link, which doesn't appear to have an ambassador or much detail at all. Not sure if someone wanted to reach out to the prof/class. czar  14:55, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Didn't see that there was a campus volunteer—pinging her @B.J.Carmichael czar  14:58, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    The same user is also instructor at Template:Course link. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:53, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I am the Campus Ambassador working with the instructors for each of these courses at Louisiana State University and am currently in contact with the instructor for Template:Course link. It would be very helpful to have feedback placed on the course pages so all students enrolled in the class can benefit from the collaborative process. Thank you for alerting me. B.J.Carmichael (talk) 17:58, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Blocking students

    Thankfully we have a copy and paste detection bot. Picked up this one User:Esth270 for a second time and I have blocked them.

    We cannot let the education program fill Wikipedia full of plagiarism and poorly sourced content which I am seeing a lot of lately. Sigh. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    @Doc James: Since you brought this up here, and I'm going off line for a few hours I'll leave a note here first, before starting an AN thread. This new user is adding cited information, at least one of which appears to be from the public domain cursory review only. Do you have any comments you can add to this, maybe I'm missing something? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 23:34, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Details here User_talk:Esth270#Copy_and_pasting. Which are you saying is from the public domain? While this is in PMC it does not appear to be public domain [3] This also does not appear to be CC [4] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:55, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, like I said, only cursory--so it's not public domain; but a block quote or some simple would have made this not be a copyright violation; the user had one warning and now is idef blocked for "plagiarism" which is not part of the blocking policy unless you are claiming they have risen to the level of "disruption" through continuous breaching of guidelines; I don't think an indef block is appropriate as a first block. — xaosflux Talk 02:15, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Okay so are you saying people are allowed to copy and paste blocks of text into Wikipedia? It was not "quoted". I have had one company's publishing department tell me that one gets 20 seconds in music and 7 words in text. So do we as a community have a policy on how much text people are allowed to copy and paste from sources? I have been using the seven word limit which this was much much over but if others want to raise it would be happy to follow community consensus.
    We have a very strict policy on fair use of images on En Wikipedia. Do we allow text based on fair use as well? I agree copyright is complicated and happy to be clarified on where we draw the line. Do; however, not want to expose my WPMED to issues. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:37, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Moonriddengirl as the local copyright expert can you comment? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:43, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    A couple of points. :) User:Xaosflux, people get blocked for plagiarism - they have done since well before I became an admin. Jimmy took a firm stand on it himself in 2005: [5]. I haven't looked at the details of this particular situation, but an indefinite block is not an infinite one - it can sometimes be shorter than a defined length block, as quite often a person can be unblocked (especially for copyright issues) just by indicating that they understand. Typically, people are not blocked for copyright issues unless they persist after a warning or unless they have violated copyright across many articles, but there can be other circumstances and, again, I'm not familiar with this one.
    We absolutely do allow text based on fair use - the policy and guideline are at WP:NFC. Every quotation from a copyrighted source is fair use. User:Doc James, whoever gave you those defined limits was making stuff up, at least if they were talking about the U.S. law that governs us. :) There is no clear defining line in what constitutes "substantial similarity" under the U.S. law - this is why court cases can be so contentious. It depends on so many subjective factors, including how important the content is, the level of originality, the way it is used and where it is used. (See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html - "There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission.") The courts consider all the factors of fair use. Quotation marks do not help, legally, in the U.S. As that same document notes, "Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission." However, quotation marks when copying from copyrighted sources not only helps on Wikipedia, but is required for a number of good reasons, including that we are identifying our fair use material, which allows people to determine whether it is permissible in their own reuse of our content. (Some countries have firmer laws on using non-free content than the U.S., which governs Wikipedia, does.) As a general rule of thumb, content that is copied from non-free sources without quotation marks or block quote is a violation of WP:NFC, which makes it in turn a violation of WP:C and hence a copyright violation. (As we are not a court of law, we cannot assess copyright infringement from the legal perspective, but only what is consistent with internal policy, crafted to remain within law. We're not accusing people of crimes here.) In most of the cases I've seen in my sixish years of working copyright on Wikipedia, copyright violation is an opportunity for education. Most people who run afoul of this policy are unaware of the concepts or good practices in this area. Blocks work best in conjunction with clear explanations so that they do not continue violating this critical policy as they grasp it. Some people are either unwilling or unable to correct their practices, and these people wind up de facto banned. It's not unusual to see such a person return with socks that are caught precisely because of their continued copy-pasting. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:40, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    One more thing - those who are not already familiar of it should be aware of this template in working with newer editors who run afoul of copyright policy: Template:uw-copyright-new. Even if you adapt it as part of a personal message, it can help. :) I'm not a fan of the icon, though. :/ A recent addition. The template was meant to be less scary in introducing a massive topic, but I worry that the icon undermines that. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    Lots of disruption from that course; is anyone at the Education Program doing anything about attempting to contact the MIA Prof, User:BrooklynProf to give her better guidance about Wikipedia? Or to ask her (or her three assistants) to educate the students about Wikipedia and supervise their edits? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    The prof is aware in this case and is meeting with the student to discuss the issues that occurred. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:44, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    That's good, but there are problems elsewhere :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I am NOT endorsing bulk copy pasting, I am saying that I disagree with an indefinite block being issued to a new editor for a guideline infraction. — xaosflux Talk 02:55, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Cut-and-paste plagiarism is a "guideline infraction"? Copyright violation is against the law, and then there's WP:COPYVIO, which is identified clearly as "policy with legal consideration". Surely this is driven home by profs, and students caught plagiarizing (twice) usually fail the course. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah so you want me to simply allow the student to continue copy and pasting content into Wikipedia than? Are you against the reverting of "copy and pasted" text? User:Xaosflux I am not understanding your position. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Google Knol was partly killed by having no mechanisms to deal with "copy and pasting" into it. [6] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:09, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Doc, I suspect he/she just wants you to reduce the block, maybe to time served? We probably wouldn't do that for a regular editor (MRG may know), but folks in here seem to treat student editors differently. In this case, if the prof already knows, there's likely a very big penalty on board already (as in, fail the course. assuming the prof is paying attention, that is). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:14, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    What I am looking for is that this students 1) still has a desire to edit 2) now has a clear understanding of what is required. Clarified this for them [7] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:16, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    @SandyGeorgia: yes, just because they are a student doesn't make them any less of an editor. — xaosflux Talk 03:32, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    @Doc James: Your block reason listed is "Plagiarism", not "Copyright Violation". Plagiarism is not a component of the Blocking Policy, it is only a content guideline. If you mean to block for COPYVIO, please clearly explain to the user that their block is due to violation of the COPYVIO policy. A shorter block (perhaps 24 hours?) should also be sufficient to stop any disruption to the encyclopedia and give them time to read your messages, why make them go through additional bureaucracy to return to the project? — xaosflux Talk 03:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    To your other question, I fully endorse reversion of edits that are not constructive. — xaosflux Talk 03:30, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I take copyright seriously (If Commons admin doesn't care copyright, he should be desysopped!) but one warning then indef seems so harsh... Not saying block is wrong, but it's too long imo.  Revi 03:37, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes the user in question needs to clearly show that they understand what is paraphrasing before they can return to editing. And the way to show someone knows something is to get them to do it. Now because of these issues, if they are unblocked, their edits will need to be check. To show some respect for my time I include the requirement of properly formatting to make this easier.
    An indef is not forever. Call me demanding but I just had a students agree to follow the requests and then not do so. How many students / classes of students are you two by the way keeping an eye one? Copyright violations are a big deal in my profession. Would the NEJM say no worries simply try again tomorrow? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Anyway this is called verifying WP:COMPETENCE. I assume they will likely pass. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:54, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    (edit conflict × 2) My classes (2, both run by Piotrus) has student 20 or less in total. Anyway, back to topic, I know indef is not forever, but it may be frustrating to newbies. If you feel indef is nessesary, that's fine (I'm not admin). I don't have strong opinion about this, just want you to say that I felt indef was too long. :p  Revi 03:59, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    The student is here until their assignment ends on Dec 20th/23rd thus they are motivated. I have been in email discussions with the student in question.
    User:-revi are you checking for copy and paste issues? I have found they run about 15-30%.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, but if they do copypaste, that's likely copypaste and translation, as all students are Korean and likely to paste (and translate) in Korean. I have no idea to check source, tbh.  Revi 04:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    @Doc James: I double-checked my students' contents and I don't see problem on copyright...  Revi 05:35, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Good to hear :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    See also ANI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    ANI notices left, asked to continue the discussion here to prevent forking. — xaosflux Talk 04:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes they are preventative not punitive. We are now verifying that they are unlikely to do it again. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    So many misconceptions, so little time. The student both committed plagiarism (failing to properly attribute the intellectual origin of material) and copyright violation (use of another's copyrighted text without permission). "A block quote" would have corrected the plagiarism problem, but not the copyright violation. The doctrine of "fair use" allows the use of copyrighted text without explicit permission in a number of cases; the boundaries are very fuzzy, and it's not as clear-cut as the publishing rep tried to make out to Doc James. However, Wikipedia is governed by WP:NFC, which allows brief quotations of copyrighted texts, but forbids extensive quotation. In this case, there was no reason the information of the quotes could not have been conveyed in an original, non-copyrighted manner, so I don't see a reasonable fair use claim to include them, in quotes or not. Note that copyright is a legal issue, not just a contravention of one of our Gormenghastly guidelines. ;)

    Doc James should indeed have referred to "copyvio" instead of "plagiarism" as a reason, but I think overall his block was pretty reasonable. Maybe two weeks (which would cover the end of the semester) instead of indef would have been preferable, but indefinite is not infinite, he was obviously watching to see if the student would constructively engage, which she has, and as the situation is now moving towards constructive resolution, it seems he did the right thing. Choess (talk) 04:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    • Concur with block and length Indefinite is not infinite. As soon as the person who has been blocked expresses a clear understanding of why they are blocked, and how they plan to behave differently going forward, they can be unblocked immediately. No need to wait two weeks (as Choess expresses above) or any other random length of time. Either they know why what they did is wrong, and promise not to do it again, or they don't. If they do so express, unblock them. If they don't, leave them blocked. --Jayron32 04:11, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • Thanks User:Jayron32 and User:Choess, the plan is as soon as they provide a clear description of what they will do differently I am more than happy to unblock them. This is what I have always done in the past. Student blocks I find some of the hardest as they have often been send to Wikipedia without proper training. But we also know from experience that are only here for the short term. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:22, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • They don't need to be, we should always welcome all editors openly and encourage them to continue to contribute to the encyclopedia in the future - it could be as minor of a future action as a copyedit to some subject that interests them. We should never treat any student editor with any less courtesy then any other new editor. We all started with one edit. — xaosflux Talk 04:29, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
          • That's true, and I agree with the sentiment that we don't treat editors who are students any differently than editors who are not. Which is why we don't treat them differently here. Being a student or not being a student is irrelevant: if someone is not willing to learn some basic principles such as "don't steal the work of others and pass it off as your own", I see no reason to continue to allow them to steal the work of others, regardless of what they do outside of Wikipedia. --Jayron32 04:35, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
              • User:Xaosflux do not get me wrong. I block non students for plagiarism too. It is harder in these cases as I realize that it has real life repercussions for them. If your first edits are plagiarism and than following a warning you next edits are also plagiarism we have a problem. The editor in question needs a bit of time to think on things. And should provide examples that they understand the issues in question. This is not something we should simply blow off. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:36, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • Plagiarism is never appropriate; it's something against which any good syllabus will warn, so we should assume that any college student is well aware of why it's a problem and of the likely result. We ought to be careful with enforcing most of our policies on student accounts, since they can't be expected to know them, but we need to be harsh with plagiarism: it's a horrid idea to sanction the student account (and thus potentially harm the real-life student's grade) for ordinary issues, but any decent professor will severely penalise a student for plagiarism, so if a student's plagiarising, we shouldn't act unusually softly. If the student engage productively, as here, of course we can unblock, as Doc James is hoping to do, but the severe sanctions for intellectual dishonesty (and thus for hoaxing, in a way) should follow just as rapidly with students as with established accounts. PS — I editconflicted with Xaosflux; everything before this was written before the conflict. Just responding to We should never treat...other new editor — some new editors are unaware of intellectual honesty problems such as plagiarism, but new student editors are aware that it's wrong. Nyttend (talk) 04:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think that as long as the student is aware that copyright violations are not acceptable and they make a promise not to do it again, we should unblock the account. My only suggestion would be that the editor get warned that they will be watched quite closely and they will be indef'd again if it happens. However I do want to say that I agree with Nyttend's argument about dealing with plagiarism. If I'd done this in one of my classes and not made it a clear quote (using parentheses, which the editor in question did not use), I'd get my paper handed back and told to fix it... assuming I didn't get a F without the chance to re-do it. My teachers all have (and have had) a very clear zero acceptance policy for plagiarism. It's one of the first things that we're told in class and it's something that's been told to me throughout my college years- and I'm in a Master's program now. There's no way that this student would be completely unaware that plagiarism is unacceptable. Once? Sure- mistakes happen. Twice? That is a pretty big warning sign. Maybe this was just a case of the student being a little lazy due to the end of the semester, but the issue is that they still violated copyright- something that would land them a failing grade in school. The only way that this would be somewhat too harsh is if there was no way for the student to regain editing privileges. From what I see the student has acknowledged what they did was wrong and looks like they're willing to fix what they did, so a conditional unblock in this situation seems appropriate. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]