User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed)/Archive 7

New course

Instructor is tagging a bunch of medical articles (which I appreciate them doing for the heads up) as being worked on as part of Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Michigan/Drugs of Abuse (Winter 2017).

15% of students' grades depend on "successful completion". There are references to "your article" in the instructions. The instructor has no history of contributing to WP.

Am concerned that this is going to turn into another COI dramafest, with students fighting to get "their content" into articles so they can get "their grade". Please keep an eye on this. I hesitate to offer this but if I can do anything to help orient them before they get started I would be happy to help with that. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 21:17, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Jytdog: I'm replying to let you know that I saw this, and will follow up with this when Helaine on Monday when she gets back to the office. It just dawned on me how long I'd left this hanging with no rely, so I thought I should get back to you even though I had no news. I really appreciate the heads up and the offer. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:59, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for replying! Jytdog (talk) 23:04, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Munsk000 (talk)

Hello This is Sungkyun Mun

I need help with...

--Munsk000 (talk) 19:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Munsk000. I need more specific information. What do you need help with? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:00, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Question about my citation

Hello Ian,

This is Andrea, a student editing as part of a class assignment. I have a quick question about the citations I used on the Talk Page for the Wikipedia article "Sensory Processing Sensitivity." I successfully posted the citations, but after each citation are the words "More than one of |pages= and |page= specified" in red letters. What can I do to fix my citations?

Thanks,

MissAndrea (talk) 08:33, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Reviewing Article

Hello Ian, I thought I reviewed an article by posting comments on the talk page. However, under my sections class it doesn't say I am reviewing an article. It is blank. What do I do? Thanks Ugok02 (talk) 19:59, 16 January 2017 (UTC) 1/18/2017

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Felipesteaco (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

how can I start using the sandbox? thanks

--Felipesteaco (talk) 01:46, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Time

Hi Ian! I recently created an account for myself for a class project. However, my time stamp for my signature is wrong. My time zone is supposed to be (America/Chicago). However, whenever I sign my name after a post, the time posts me a couple hours ahead of my time now. This is a problem because most of my assignments with my class posts are time sensitive. Can you please help me out?

Thank you! Verdagj (talk) 23:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Jolynknowsthings (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

--Jolynknowsthings (talk) 23:26, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

@Jolynknowsthings: I need more specific information. What do you need help with? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Hyojungsong (talk)

practicing

--Hyojungsong (talk) 02:00, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Question about Sandboxes

Hello Ian,

I'm editing an article with another student as part of a class assignment. Is there a way we can see each other's sandboxes so that we can comment on each other's drafts, and to make sure we aren't editing/drafting the same thing? I can find her talk page, but not her sandbox.

Also, I have a random question about citing images. If we find an image on Wikimedia Commons how do we cite the image when using it in an article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MissAndrea (talk • contribs) 22:54, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Please let me know.

Thanks,

MissAndrea (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:38, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Question About Sandbox

Hello Ian,

I am new to using Wikipedia as i'm in the POLS 3670 Comparative Public Policy and Administration course working with Wikipedia for our major assignment.

I followed the "Sandboxes and Mainspace" Tutorial and one part asks you to move your sandbox to an article I think.

I got a notification that said my Sandbox "Scottmcnab/sandbox" is scheduled for speedy deletion, I don't know what I did wrong or if it is just deleting the first sandbox we were assigned.

Will I still be able to use my sandbox to work on my assignment?

In addition, I got a message from someone saying "please dont" on moving my "Scottmcnab/sandbox" as a wikipedia article but all I intended was to follow the steps in the Wikipedia tutorial.

Also, the talk page for "User:Scottmcnab/sandox" has no issues with it, Is this the sandbox that I will use for my assignment and the other is supposed to be deleted?

Thank you for all the Clarification,

Scott McNab Scottmcnab (talk) 23:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page (and no, for anyone reading this, the training modules do not say to move your sandbox to mainspace). Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:15, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

External Links Section as Footer

Hi there! I'm editing an article right now, and have added some relevant external links. The Wiki policies page says that external links should be added as a footer, but I can't figure out how to insert that section and keep my references above it. My draft of the page is in my sandbox; if you could help me figure this out I'd appreciate it! Thanks! Comfygenes (talk) 17:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:46, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

the number of characters did not changed

Hi i did my first comments on the talk page in Polymerase II but the number of characters didn't change could you help me to figure out Albahrani Batool (talk) 02:30, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Astrawn (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with... creating content in my sandbox.

--Astrawn (talk) 21:55, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Zend Framework

Hello Ian,

I am working on editing the Zend Framework Page. Please have a look and see if you have any advice or I am going on a right track. I am a graduate student of Computer Science in North Carolina State University.

Thanks, Q — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qaiss.alokozai (talk • contribs) 06:04, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Ander171 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with my content. I am unsure what else I should add and/or omit. I've given merely a general explanation of what I plan on discussing and would like more feedback. Please let me know.

--Ander171 (talk) 08:22, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:55, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Wadecoulis (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

Assigning myself an article for revision. I am somewhat confused on how to pick an article. I also has a few questions about the sandbox.

Thank you,

--Wadecoulis (talk) 21:05, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

@Wadecoulis: No problem. What specific questions do you have? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Noeer Alotaibi (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help to write the outline of the article but I can't type anything when I open my sandbox.

--Noeer Alotaibi (talk) 06:32, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Nehemiah V (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

What I plan on contributing to this article is that I can show the entertainment side to the topic. For example I would include; shows, movies, books or even comics that would talk about the related subject bringing out a different perspective of the death fan.

--Nehemiah V (talk) 20:55, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:27, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Question Regarding Watchlist Page

Aloha Ian! I had a question regarding my watchlist page; I saw there was a notice that said "A request for adminship is open for discussion. [dismiss]" I was surprised to see this, as I've only been on the site for less than a month. I've gathered that this doesn't mean I have to be an admin nor have I been nominated or anything, am I correct in that assumption? Becoming an admin is also not necessary to edit the page I'm starting to work on, I hope? Mahalo, Sarah MarineMermaidSar (talk) 21:35, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Shashawnda Campbell (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with learning to edit

Shashawnda Campbell (talk) 09:56, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

@Shashawnda Campbell: Have you taken the training modules yet? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Assigning Topics

Hi Ian,

I'm looking at my own course page and I see that some people have assigned articles to themselves, which seems like it might be important. But I have no idea how. Could you advise me on how to do that?

Mgood13 (talk) 04:17, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Bfalc009 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

Ok, I'm sorry, but I'm confused. I'm trying to copy a reference from an article Argumentum ad populum (did I do that right) to the Proof by assertion article.

--Bfalc009 (talk) 14:03, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Question about addressing plagiarism

Hi, I am a student editor with an assignment to address possible problems of an article in that articles talk page. How would you suggest is the best way to address cut-and-paste plagiarism in a diplomatic and non-confrontational way? Julisymmons (talk) 18:16, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kayla Hemesath (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

I am ready to move my article to Wikipedia's main site, but I cannot find the "More" tab to move the page.

--Kayla Hemesath (talk) 18:55, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from JeanFrankso (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

I can't figure out how to use sandbox to begin writing an article. Can you help?

--JeanFrankso (talk) 00:56, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Lustinje97 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

Putting a phrase into the Sandbox

--Lustinje97 (talk) 02:32, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Answered on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from JeanFrankso (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

Is my paragraph Wikipedia ready?

--JeanFrankso (talk) 19:56, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Nmateo1997 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I would like for someone to review my content and ensure that it both meets Wikipedia's guidelines and sounds encyclopedic. I want to make sure that my additions would be of use and maintain Wikipedia's guidelines. Thanks!

--Nmateo1997 (talk) 18:33, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Jrb98 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with... Getting an article into my sandbox. I understand how to edit an article, but I don't know how to do so in my sandbox, because anytime I go to my sandbox it asks me to get help. How do I put a wiki article in my sandbox?

--Jrb98 (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Question about advertisement-like writing

Hi Ian,

I just recently made a bunch of edits to the "nanobatteries" article, but I was curious about the heading "researching companies". Under this heading, the content is written in an advertisement-like manner and there are no citations. I had originally thought that I should just remove this section, but now I'm not so sure. What are your thoughts on potential advertisement by writing about companies? I was thinking of removing it, or changing the wording and finding citations for this section. What do you suggest? Thanks! Halie1758 (talk) 18:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Revolutionary27 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I am a student editor working on the Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès page and I would like to see if you could review the draft that I have in my sandbox so far. You should be able to find it under "Week 6". The talk page of that article isn't active so any feedback would help. I would also like help with posting pictures to the article. I understand that this can be complex due to copyright restrictions so I want to know what steps I can take to post images from books that I have from the library. Thank you very much! :)

--Revolutionary27 (talk) 18:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Violet Rose (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with... making notes through sandbox page

--Violet Rose (talk) 20:28, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:33, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Need help with moving my sandbox to mainspace

Hello Ian,

I tried to fix and add to the "passiflora ligularis" page on wikipedia. I wrote all of it down on my sandbox, but I'm not sure how to move it to main space or to the already existing wikipedia page.

Thank you, jimenagallarday — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimenagallarday (talk • contribs) 23:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kidpatterson (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with uploading my sandbox article to Wikipedia. I have an English translation of the Wikipedia article of Quico from "El Chavo del Ocho" and would like to make the page public. I'm not seeing the "More" option to find the ability to "Move" the article

--Kidpatterson (talk) 17:30, 1 March 2017 (UTC)kidpatterson

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kidpatterson (talk)kidpatterson

Hello Ian.

I need help with making sure that my article is formatted correctly with more reliable sources.

--Kidpatterson (talk) 22:00, 1 March 2017 (UTC)kidpatterson

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Wiki course from Dartmouth

The course Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Dartmouth College/Functional Nanomaterials (Spring 2017) is being run by User:Karbokation, whose track record is unpromising - two fawning bio's of her colleagues. Now she/he is running a course on Wikipedia wherein the students, in an 100% unsupervised manner, are contributing large essays consisting of decent and very dubious material. I realize that you are under pressure to encourage Wikipedia as an educational tool, but anything you and your team could do to guide this particular project would be welcome. Suggestions: alerting Talk pages of goals of revisions, relying secondary sources, being attentive to WP:NOTTEXTBOOK? A short note to the project's students might help. Thanks,--Smokefoot (talk) 23:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

@Smokefoot: Thanks for your note. My interactions (by email) with the students have been positive so far. They're grad students, so they certainly have the potential to do well. I am hopeful that I can nudge them towards more good and far less dubious material. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:19, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Grad students? So what? The editors here in the Chem project are way above grad student level in technical expertise and light-years ahead of these new editors in our understanding of tone and style.--Smokefoot (talk) 15:51, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Absolutely. But a grad student, working in their area of interest, should be able to get it right eventually (with the proper guidance). At least that's my working hypothesis. That's not true of everyone who edits Wikipedia. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Mmack32 (talk)

Hello Ian.

I need help with...

creating an wikipedia outline

--Mmack32 (talk) 18:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Repeat References

Hi Ian,

I had a question about repeated references. I'm attempting to write a section for a biographical article and I'm citing a number of different sources. The problem I'm running into is that the references section is counting multiple citations of the same book as different citations. I'm wondering if there is a way to prevent this so I can create a more clean page.

Thank you, Mgood13 (talk) 04:07, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Request to start a new article - Aeromicrobiology

Hi Ian,

I would like to start an article for Aeromicrobiology. My group and I are working on making a wiki page for a class and I would like to know what steps I need to take to establish that. We are working on the content on my sandbox page and we have decided that we will finalize the content on my sandbox page before transferring to the official article page.

I would also like to know the specifics regarding using pictures for the wiki page. I have a picture that was found online but I'm not sure of its legal rights so I'm not sure if we're allowed to use the picture unless we just cite where we got it from in the caption box.

Kchang99 (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2017 (UTC) (It's currently 11:17, 5 March 2017 PST)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Revolutionary27 (talk)

Hello Ian,

I understand that Adam is the content expert assigned to my class but his talk page doesn't seem to be active lately. Any suggestions?

--Revolutionary27 (talk) 03:41, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Slb2789 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with... using my sandbox. It's only giving me the option to speak with Ian or Adam and all I'm trying to do is work in a History section for Legionella pneumophila.

--Slb2789 (talk) 15:25, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Re: Questions

Hi Ian,

I contacted you previously about the Aeromicrobiology page. Thanks for your feedback! I have looked over the Editing Wikipedia Brochure as you suggested and I have noted what to change for the page layout.

As for the images/diagrams, I went through the online module again. The images/diagrams that my group found are mostly, if not all, from scientific journal publications. What is the copyright situation on those images? If I re-drew the diagram, would that then be considered my work or would I only be able to re-draw the images/diagrams under CC BY or CC ZERO copyright? I tried looking through CC Search and Wiki Commons, as well as Public Library of Science and still didn't find our images/diagrams.

Kchang99 (talk) 00:29, 8 March 2017 (UTC) (16:28 7 March, 2017 PST)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Making wikipedia page

Hello.

I need help with making a wikipedia page. I went to the sandbox and edited polycentric networks, but the page still does not exist

--ZachGraham (talk) 10:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Bothell130 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...transferring this content from the user sandbox to creating a new page. My student has been working hard on this, but has a tight deadline to travel. I'm happy to help her, but have been juggling too much myself. Can you please advise on next steps? Thank you! Bothell130 (talk) 03:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

--Bothell130 (talk) 03:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied by email. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Uploading Images

I have created a less detailed version of an instrument diagram from one of my sources. Can I upload this image and how do I cite it?Mokona72 (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Hgossy (talk)

Hi Ian!

Our page on euxinia for Oregon State's OEAS540 class is ready to go live, but I think we need some sort of permission before we can move it into an official article. Can you please check?

Cheers!

--Hgossy (talk) 06:01, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

ANI

• WP:ANI#The Wiki Ed welcome mat

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Cabayi (talk) 09:02, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kbrodowski1 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with reviewing my article draft contributions. The information I plan to add to my article is written below 02/19 - 02/25 (Wed) & 02/26 - 03/04 (Wed) in my sandbox. Please let me know if you think the information I have provided thus far is considered appropriate for Wikipedia and would positively contribute to the existing article.

Thank you

--Kbrodowski1 (talk) 14:46, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Mjwatcho (talk)

Hello Ian,

I need help with sourcing and formatting. I have detailed my intentions on the talk page and now it would be helpful if you could tell me if I am on the right track. I have sourced every sentence as seems to be the correct method during the training videos but I feel like this could be overkill.

Thank you.

--Mjwatcho (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:29, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Nkiesolo (talk)

Hello.

I need help with the new version of my entry. Thank you

--Nkiesolo (talk) 12:25, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:29, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Ivizulis (talk)

Hello.

I need help with pictures. I was wondering, is it necessary to have captions under pictures?

--Ivizulis (talk) 22:38, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:57, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Tea is very healthy for you Jsm0216 (talk) 01:41, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Danicroi (talk)

Hello.

I need help with my wikipedia article draft. I was hoping you can review it and see if there are any things that I have to add, specifically checking out that my tone is neutral and unbiased and that my citations are correct. Additionally, I originally planned to add this to the Latin America page, but I am considering creating a new article titled "Latin American Economies in 2017" Since my material is specifically focused on that time period. My article can be found under the dashed lines in my sandbox.

--Danicroi (talk) 14:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Danicroi (talk)

Hello.

Thank you for your comments on my article. My original plan was to add my work to the "Latin America" wikipedia page under the economies section beause I noticed that there is very little information, but people on the teahouse said that since most of my information focuses on current trends, it may not be accepted in the Latin America article. Do you think that I should create a new article or add it to the existing one?

--Danicroi (talk) 15:42, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Aditya P (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Aditya Patibandla & Jay Desai Professor Leslie & Dr. Behrman JHU Medicine Article Outline 3/10/17

Alfred Sommer Outline Intro/Background: Alfred Sommer is a highly accomplished epidemiologist and ophthalmologist from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sommer received his MD in 1967 from Harvard Medical School and then went on to receive his Masters in Health Sciences in 1973 from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He was formerly the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1990 to 2005, and is currently serving as an Epidemiology and International Health Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in addition to being an Ophthalmology Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Alfred Sommer first garnered praise and attention for his groundbreaking research on the use of a large and inexpensive Vitamin A capsules to reduce the child mortality rates of Vitamin A deficient children. This Vitamin A capsule that was the focus of Sommer’s research only needed to be administered twice a year and was proven to reduce the child mortality rate (of Vitamin A deficient children) by as much as 34 percent. While serving as the Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sommer successfully expanded both the faculty and student bodies and dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the school’s emphasis on research and developing world class research facilities. Sommer’s visionary efforts helped the school attain the #1 spot on the U.S. News & World Report Graduate Schools of Public Health ranking, a prestigious title it still holds to this day. Significant Talking Points: ● Sommer’s groundbreaking research in regards to blindness prevention has resulted in significant strides in global health as well as a measurable reduction in child mortalities. We intend to delve deeper into Sommer’s research during the 1970s and 1980s, which focused on large, inexpensive doses of Vitamin A and its potential to prevent deaths due to vitamin A deficiency in children. This research was especially meaningful for impoverished area in the U.S. and worldwide that lack access to basic needs or adequate foundational resources such as clean water, staple foods, nearby medical care, etc. We also hope to discover the lasting results of Sommer’s research by examining data from the conducted case studies and examine his role as the founding Director of the Dana Center for Preventative Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins from 1980-1990 (as it relates to his research on eyesight/blindness/Vitamin A).

● Considering the 15 extremely successful years Sommer spent as the Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, we hope to study any projects or proposals he implemented that enabled him to further expand the student population and the faculty body. We also intend to look into his methods for funding the renovation of the Bloomberg School and for facilitating its growth into a premier research institution (including the 130 million spent on expanding and updating the school’s research facilities).

● Sommer works as both an ophthalmologist in the Wilmer Eye Institute and as an Epidemiology and International Health Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. We intend to study his work as a doctor and his projects as an epidemiologist to gain more insight regarding the various tasks, and responsibilities he takes on in each role. We also hope to research both his work as a doctor and public health specialist to try and understand how his work in both fields is possibly related and if so, where and why that overlap occurs. We are curious to see how is training and education in public health affects his perception of the clinical work and patient care he engages in as a doctor and vice-versa.

● Sommer has received numerous awards and significant recognition for his contributions to the betterment of nutritional and medical (particularly vision) research. We will mention the awards he’s won and why he received these awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1997 and the the Danone International Prize for Nutrition in 2001 (for his groundbreaking studies on Vitamin A and its ability to enhance eyesight and reduce child mortality rates when administered through an inexpensive yet high-dosage capsule). He also later was awarded the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research (in regards to his studies on blindness prevention).

● We intend to address Sommer’s current research interests as well. These include the diagnosis and management of glaucoma, improved child survival and blindness prevention strategies, and micronutrient interventions to vision impairment. In addition, we’ll briefly mention Sommer’s role as director emeritus on the corporate Boards of Directors of Becton Dickinson, an established medical technology company.

● Sommers also discovered that supplementing Nepalese women of childbearing age with Vitamin A ot beta-carotene can reduce maternal mortality rate by 45% and newborn vitamin A supplementation can reduce neonatal mortality by 20%.

How we will conduct our research ● The main resources that we will use to conduct our research will be medical journals and publications made by Sommer or by others on Sommer’s work. Another primary source however that we hope to get is an interview by phone with Sommers. He is currently a professor of Epidemiology, International Health, and Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and therefore it might be possible to get an interview. It would be amazing to be able to talk about what got him interested in his research and how we wants to continue his work in field such as the effects of Vitamin A deficiency in children. ● In order to get credible information from primary and secondary documents, we intend to also reference the Chesney Medical Archives (as listed in the syllabus).

--Aditya P (talk) 17:55, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Danicroi (talk)

Hello.

I have made some changes to my article to give it more strength to stand as a standalone article. I took your suggestion about looking at the argentina page and modeling my format similarly. In terms of the name, there is no article titled "Latin American Economies" so I could start that article. What are your thoughts? Also, I edited my first paragraph as you suggested, so I was hoping you could take a look. Sorry for so many messages, I just want to perfect the article and post it to main space so I can start receiving feedback from the whole wikipedia community.

--Danicroi (talk) 18:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Teahouse#Latin_American_Economies_New_Article 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:37, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Changing Page Title

Hi Ian, Thanks for your assistance in my student's page on the Niger Delta Mangrove Forests. In changing the title, however, it is not an accurate framing to call it Niger Delta mangroves - it should be mangrove forests to fit the ecological and cultural context. Would it be possible to change that?

Thank you! Martha Groom Bothell130 (talk) 18:29, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

@Bothell130: I went with "mangroves" rather than "mangrove forests" to keep the name consistent with all the other articles of the sort. We have lots of these articles (though this one is probably the most complete) and it's a good thing if they are named consistently. If your goal was simply to focus on the woody arboreal component of the ecosystem, rather than the entire mangal, then yes, I suppose it would be appropriate to rename it. Technically that's simple - use use the "move" button. But I am not sure what the benefit of keeping the focus of the article so narrow would be. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Drafts nearly ready for review Neurobiology (Spring 2017)

My students will be posting drafts of their pages in sandboxes or userpages for you to review by Monday March 27th at 5PM. Will you leave a message on the talk page letting them know they are ready to go to mainspace or will you be emailing them? MMBiology (talk) 00:25, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:30, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hi Ian, There are some non-English citations used in the article I expanded/edited (Osteopathy) for the History of Modern Medicine course I am taking. Are non-English citations allowed on English wiki pages? I've also found a citation (#68) that does not open on my page. Would it be all right to remove these citations, and the statements that they are attached to in the article?

Thank you!Emarti84 (talk) 16:02, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:25, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from LisaBlakeleySnyder (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

I am having trouble with the line below. I want to cite Benjamin because he was mentioned in a scholarly article I am referencing. Benjamin's work is from a symposium so I am not sure how to cite that with wikipedia.

In a symposium conducted by Benjamin in 1988, he mentioned that Leta was able to begin her graduate studies because of a grant given to her by Coca-Cola.

--LisaBlakeleySnyder (talk) 16:43, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:25, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK class preparation

Ian, it seems that the articles that are being nominated for DYK by the current class are being done so without a knowledge of how DYK actually works.

There are three ways an article can qualify for DYK:

1. Created within the past seven days and at least 1500 prose characters
2. Expanded fivefold within the past seven days (and also at least 1500 prose characters)
3. Listed as a Good Article within the past seven days (and also at least 1500 prose characters)

The articles have all been expansions of existing articles, which is a fine thing, but they've all been to already sizable articles, and the expansions have not been to five times the original size. They range from about 1.4x to 3x, and significant expansion—typically over twice what has already been added—would still be needed to bring them into compliance. No one has yet replied to reviews noting these shortcomings, and I expect the bulk of the nominations to be closing as unsuccessful over the next couple of weeks.

I noticed that the expectation is that these articles are supposed to be nominated for Good Article status in May. Given the backlog at WP:GAN, it is unlikely that these will be taken up while the class is still ongoing. (GA nominations are typically one of the last things done as part of the online coursework.) Is there any provision for someone to monitor these nominations for when they do eventually find a reviewer over the summer or possibly into next fall? It seems a shame that the nominations won't have anyone to address the issues when a reviewer turns them up (as they invariably do), leaving the nominations to wither and die. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:15, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

BlueMoonset - thanks for the heads up. Do you know which class this is? I will get in touch with the instructor. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:55, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

If you could point me to one of the DYK noms, I could track it down too. (I used to recommend that students nominate articles for DYK sometimes, but I realised that they often don't follow through when they're asked to make changes. So I stopped doing it. While there are students that produce work with GA potential, I don't know how to fix the follow-through problem. I'd love to see more students or instructors willing to shepherd their noms, but I've only seen this succeed with very experienced instructors.) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:06, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Ian, thanks for the reply. it's a class relating to medical topics, mostly historical in nature; the work started on March 2 or 3, and the nominations appear to have been made between March 8 and 12. Here are the nominations that remain:

• Template:Did you know nominations/Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (There was a reply on this one, but no follow-up after that)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Charenton (asylum) (which I plan to close later today)
• Template:Did you know nominations/Horace Wells
• Template:Did you know nominations/Crawford Long
• Template:Did you know nominations/Iatrochemistry
• Template:Did you know nominations/William Buchan

Perhaps you can suggest to the teacher that the GA nominations not be done unless you think the articles are indeed ready and that someone will be around to handle them; otherwise, it's a waste of time. I've seen syllabi in past years where a GA nomination was part of the course requirement, which made me cringe. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:45, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

We've just had confirmation that the DYK nominations were mandated for the class at the Horace Wells nomination page I linked to above: The nomination was required for a class assignment. There's also another nomination that was finally transcluded today, though the nomination page had been created back on March 9; I pinged you from the nominator's talk page about it (Template:Did you know nominations/Iatrophysics). This one has no actual hooks on it, and cannot proceed without at least one; I've suggested that they get in touch with you for assistance. BlueMoonset (talk) 08:03, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

I took a look at the class page the other day, and this was the week that GANs were supposed to be submitted (10 extra points if the article becomes a GA). So far, fifteen have been submitted. I've fixed up five nominations (three failed to include a subtopic field, and two used "World history" rather than "Biology and medicine"). I also tagged four of the articles with the "lead too short" template—articles shouldn't have single-sentence lead sections, and especially if they are nominated at GAN. Have they even read the GA criteria? A fifth article, History of anatomy, was nominated despite already having a "lead too short" template dating back to August 2016, and having only a single paragraph for an article that big (27k prose characters) is clearly inadequate. Given that there are twenty-two unreviewed nominations in the "Biology and medicine" older than the fifteen that were just submitted, I doubt very many—if any—are going to be reviewed before the end of semester. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:15, 30 March 2017‎ (UTC)

Follow-up: the number is up to over two dozen. One has already been quick-failed (History of anatomy, which had been nominated with an active problem template), and a couple have been picked up for review. There's a problematic review that I'll be mentioning in a new section below. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:19, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Pino.17 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...moving my article Fred B. Kniffen to the main space....

I followed the directions, but it still has a box at the top when others google the article that says it's part of a user sandbox. How do I make this go away and in turn make it an article? I followed the "move" directions and everything.

Thanks,

Jordan

--Pino.17 (talk) 19:24, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:25, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Maddieaalund (talk)

Hello! Please take a look at my rough draft for Transcranial magnetic stimulation and let me know of anything I can change or revise. I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you. Maddieaalund (talk) 02:25, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

New Page Patrol query re: student pages.

Hello Ian, I am an NPP on en.wiki and am patrolling a sheaf of student created pages. Are there any policies for dealing with pages created by Wiki Ed students? Should I leave this for you to do? The articles all appear to be OK, if a little on the dry side of encyclopdic, which I must admit is a welcome relief from the usual. Thank you for your time. L3X1 (distant write) 03:26, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

@L3X1: Students should be treated like any other new editors. If you run into problems I can help with, please let me know. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok, thank you, I sure will. L3X1 (distant write) 18:20, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Drafts are ready for review

My classes drafts are all ready for review. The talk page for the class tells you where the article drafts are located. I told my students they couldn't put things in main space unless you have approved. MMBiology (talk) 18:36, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Ian, it seems that every group in this class is providing complete rewrites of articles in their sandboxes. What is the plan here with regard to mainspace? I really wish that classes wouldn't do this; I understand how this approximates normal classwork where a student or team submits a paper but this is nothing like how WP actually works. Acid-sensing ion channel for example has significant existing content. Jytdog (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Jytdog, you misunderstand what my students are doing and the instruction I give them. I never tell them they have to re-write the whole article. They are encouraged to keep existing content if it is good. In their draft within the sandbox you may see existing content because the point in the draft is to see how the entire article would flow. If they are keeping existing content they keep track of it and are instructed not to "overwrite" that portion when moving to mainspace. As to acid-sensing ion channel, they are keeping very little existing content. The draft written by my students is much better than the existing page. All drafts are run through Turnitin so it is clear what is from the existing page. While they are told that they do not need to overwrite existing content if it is good (and keeping existing content has no negative impact on their grade), they are told they may start from scratch if the existing content is not good (for whatever reason - dated information, not properly cited, incorrect information, irrelevant information, poor writing, etc). The vast majority of topics are picked because they are stubs and have little to no content or very poor content. I have been doing this for 5 years and have a good sense of how this should work when moving into mainspace. Ian and other editors I have worked with have not had a problem with it. MMBiology (talk) 15:23, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Generally, when I give students feedback I remind them to keep what's good in the existing article. I tend to encounter the opposite problem more often - students who add new material without removing older, often lower-quality work. (That's a general comment, not one about this class.) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:32, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Ian, so far the only comments on any of the talk pages are from Jytdog on the Madras Motor Neuron Disease page. Those students did not put their references in the proper format. I have told them that they can continue editing these drafts so maybe that was their plan. However, I would like to get the articles in mainspace as soon as possible so they can start the reviewing part. When do you think you will start reviewing them so I can give them a heads up about when they will be able to move? MMBiology (talk) 19:33, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

I plan to have these done tomorrow. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:36, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok, great. I will tell students to be on the lookout. MMBiology (talk) 21:01, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

• Ian what are the planned logistics for the moves or overwrites or whatever? How will WP:ATTREQ be handled in this manner of working? Jytdog (talk) 05:05, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
  • Jytdog, our standard advice for that is this: [1] When the page histories are distinct enough (per the guidelines) I sometimes do histmerges. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:23, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:29, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Ccugini1 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with removing the user sandbox template. I just want to move my sandbox to the mainspace but it says my article is in the namespace and i'm not too sure what that means

--Ccugini1 (talk) 20:23, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kayla Vedral (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

people information in my sandbox. I typed up my lead for my article but it would not allow me to publish and save changes

--Kayla Vedral (talk) 06:14, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Sofiagians (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

I just want to know if the picture i put in my sandbox to edit the article Gonyaulax was okay to use? I cited it and everything but I just want to make sure its okay to put in wikipedia. Thank you! --Sofiagians (talk) 15:50, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

--Sofiagians (talk) 15:50, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Visual editor or old school?

in your experience are students using VE or the old editor? I have realized that my instructions for formatting citations are not for VE and might confuse people. Jytdog (talk) 04:16, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Jytdog - we strongly encourage students to use VE, though the training also gives them the basics of wikicode. I think most use VE. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:49, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I will tweak my note about formatting. Jytdog (talk) 18:56, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Percivall Pott/GA1

Ian, this article was nominated to be a GA by one the students in the History of Medicine class.

Today—and I don't think this is an April Fools joke—a brand new account in its first edit attempted to approve it as a GA. The new account has the same apparent surname as the nominating account.

I have adjusted the nomination on the article's talk page so it won't look to that review page, and hatted the review. Fortunately, the "reviewer" failed to properly conclude the review on said talk page, so we don't need to revert a GA listing. But I consider this a serious matter, and hope you will look into it. Thank you.

I've been doing my best to keep the spate of this class's GA nominations in order: all but one of the articles placed under "World history" have been moved to "Biology and medicine" because it includes "history of medicine" and also medical practitioners past and present, and a number added without any topic at all have been given the "Biology and medicine" subtopic. I also tagged four articles that had single-sentence or otherwise clearly inadequate lead sections—one of the basic GA criteria includes meeting the manual of style's lead guidelines. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:31, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

That is very bad. I'm really sorry. I will follow up further with the instructor. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:31, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Ian, you should be aware of the discussion that's taking place at WT:GAN#School nominations again, where GA reviewers are reacting to the dozens of nominations, most of which are very far indeed from being GA quality. (I noticed one article, after the nomination was failed, was rated as Start-class, which is quite sad indeed.)

However, what I find most troubling is that yet another brand-new account reviewed the Percival Pott article and passed it right off: Talk:Percivall Pott/GA2. Needless to say, this review and listing has been reverted. I'm very concerned that this is a gaming of the GA process for the 10 bonus points being offered by the instructor, and my inclination would be to remove the Pott GA nomination since the article so clearly falls short of the GA criteria at the present time. The only thing preventing me from doing so immediately is that it might cause issues at Wiki Ed; I'm willing to wait 48 hours before removing the nomination in case you think it's important that the nomination remain, but if a third newbie reviewer shows up before then, all bets are off. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:44, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

These nominations are of very poor quality. In some instances students have only made 2-3 edits to the entire articles. They should at the very least be made aware of verifiability requirements. I refer here to the large tranche of medical history-related GA noms in the class of Terraplane34. See Cowpox, History of medicine in France, Plastic surgery. Even a brief look at WP:GA? beforehand would have been useful. I have had no students even respond to my GA requests. We volunteer here to help the free spread of knowledge, not as unpaid tutors for the class of John Hopkins. Please stop this class wasting volunteer time by posting clearly unsuitable GA noms. --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:59, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Whoops, I better tone that down as to not shoot the messenger, so apologies for my somewhat terse tone above. --Tom (LT) (talk) 08:16, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Can we just take these GA nominations down? Can we? Jytdog (talk) 08:50, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

@LT910001: The instructor misunderstood or underestimated the difficulty a GAN poses. We should have caught it when he added it to his timeline, but we missed that. I have discussed this with him, and he has asked his students to back off, but I'm not certain everyone got the message. I see no problem with delisting them. I'm sorry about this - I'm well aware what a limited resource GA reviewers are. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Adam (Wiki Ed)...

Since User:Adam (Wiki Ed) is ill (hope he's feeling better soon), I was noticing that his user talk page hasn't been archived lately. Can I go ahead and maybe manually archive the posts from January or maybe set up auto-archiving (maybe setting the posts to be a month or so old)? I would normally never even ask about something like this but the page has gotten so large and so many new editors post help requests there... was thinking maybe that's one way I could help or something. Shearonink (talk) 02:17, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

I would appreciate if you could archive Adam's page, Shearonink. Shalor (Wiki Ed) is monitoring his page now, so it's probably best to see what she things about managing the current posts. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

@Shalor (Wiki Ed): Shalor, I was thinking I would set up auto-archiving for 30 days. If an Ed question hasn't been answered within a month, any answer at that point would probably be outdated anyway. Ian, hope it's ok that, for now, I am keeping the discussion all here in one place. Once there's a consensus I'll go ahead and fix things up according to that consensus and I will also post something about this on Adam's user talk. Shearonink (talk) 17:05, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• Sounds good. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 03:28, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Shalor, going off to do that now. Shearonink (talk) 13:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Hfaith (talk)

Hello.

I need help with ensuring that this information encompasses the information expected for this project of botany (paleobotany project). Is there a way to know if there are certain expectations of a project? This topic's talk page is pretty inactive, and I want to make sure I'm doing all I can to edit in a Wikipedia-friendly way.

Also, is there a way to get traffic to my article from more experienced users, in order to get feedback before submitting my project?

Thanks!

--Hfaith (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Sianna Willis (talk)

The DREAM act was about the permanent residence and of how they would be of social and economic benefits to both themselves and our country. Is there an updated version of this article other than 2001 available?

--Sianna Willis (talk) 07:38, 3 April 2017 (UTC)Sianna Willis

Need help Cbyrd2011

I am very sorry to bother you but I have a concern? I posted my assignment to the BDNF page today and about 2 hours later I come to discover that someone had deleted most of it and summarized erroneously. I was confused, and quite embarrassed, especially after viewing the history and seeing that many of the changes were saved under names such as "horrible ref. names" and "unsourced.and why would val/val and met/met act the same any how?" This is incredibly wrong and actually proves that my post was misunderstood. I went to the user's talk page to ask what was wrong and discuss my position, as the training rules state, but on this particular talk page, there are several edit wars. I am concerned to leave the wrong summary on the page, especially when my name is attached, but I do not want to get into an argument. I was wondering if you had any advice. My thoughts as of now are to just delete my contribution.

Thanks for your time Cbyrd2011 (talk) 23:58, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

That was me. The "horrible ref names" thing isn't personal, at all. I need to figure out where those <ref name=:0:> pattern of ref names comes from and make it stop. Those ref names are very difficult to work with in the workflow of editing, as nothing in the ref name tells you what the ref is, in subsequent appearances. As for "inaccurate" i would be happy to discuss anything on the article Talk page. I know the science around the val/met mutation very well but perhaps something is not clear or i made a mistake. I will open a discussion section for you there (the article talk page, not a user talk page, is the right place to discuss content, btw)

Ian, do you know where those ref names come from? Jytdog (talk) 00:47, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Ian, forget it, I went and played in Visual Editor and these nonsense refnames are what VE still does. I thought I read somewhere that this had been fixed. Apparently not. Jytdog (talk) 05:07, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

I have raised this issue before with the VE people, but it isn't a priority for them. It isn't just extremely frustrating, it's also creates problems when you try to merge content. I try to fix them when I have time. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree, but if you know the rules, why did you delete and edit my post without discussing it first. You have to admit that it is a little confusing to find your entire assignment that you have worked all semester on is deleted within hours. I am still taken of guard, that is why I decided to ask the person who is meant to help me as opposed to the individual who has several edit wars on their own talk page. I will admit that I am new to this and may need help with citations, but I have been studying this protein, BDNF not Val66Met which is a mutation, for the last 4 years and find NO reason why almost my entire post needs to be deleted and reworded. Thank you Cbyrd2011 (talk) 01:18, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Mcalmar15 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with... a content check on my work for Francesco Botticini, found on his wikipedia page.

--Mcalmar15 (talk) 19:23, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion Optimisticallyhopeful

Good evening Ian,

I received a notification that my wiki page was going to be deleted but I do not understand why? I checked the talk page to try and fix the issue of concern; but I cannot find the specific reason. The person who proposed the deletion; did not give a suggestion or inform on where the POV Fork is.

My group and I have been working hard to have an unbiased point of view I understand that we might have overlooked something due to the fact that we are still working on this article but I do not think it is fair to delete our page without giving us a chance to fix the issue the user Srich32977 states? I do not even see his/her comment or message on where our article is showing bias?

All in all, I would greatly appreciate some help and feedback. Thank you.

Optimisticallyhopeful  —Preceding undated comment added 03:27, 7 April 2017 (UTC) 

Replied by email. See also Talk:Environmental_issues_along_the_Mexico–United_States_border#Refocussing. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:40, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Ricardojkay (talk)

Hello.

I need help with... I don't know how to delete the sources and some of the ones I need deleted are in my sandbox

--Ricardojkay (talk) 15:32, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

2 duplicate articles created by students

See; Special:Contributions/Fflorendo and Special:Contributions/Nathanneuro. Both are with the Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Marquette University/Neurobiology (Spring 2017) class. I have speedied them both.Jytdog (talk) 02:20, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I have left a message on the talk page Open channel block suggesting that the information is merged with channel blocker and the entire page be renamed ion channel blocker, which is more informative.

As to Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome and bilateral anterior opercular syndrome, that is a mistake. I told my students that they needed to work with Ian on this because I wasn't sure how to do it. The page should have the name bilateral anterior opercular syndrome as this is the current name. Anyone typing in Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome should be redirected to bilateral anterior opercular syndrome. It was never the intent of the students to have two pages on the same topic. MMBiology (talk) 04:03, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

These kind of page moves/renames need to discussed per WP:MOVE. The easiest way to do that is just to open a discussion at the relevant talk page and propose it. Jytdog (talk) 05:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Question Help!

Hi Ian I am part of Neurobiology class on editing Wiki stubs. My groups topic is Aquaporin-4 and we actually posted on the main page last night, but it was recently taken down due to the confusion of referencing. Could you help by explaining how do we add our reference to the main page with references already used. We tried adding a new reference but the numbering was all mixed up or we would reuse a citation and it would place the wrong number...? Please help us thank you! Sorry I re-edited this because I forgot to sign in with my account. Yoyotime (talk) 17:39, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I think it is because you didn't copy the original work from an "edit" page with all of the source information. If you just cut and pasted from the "read" page of the article, it would not have saved the source info. If the source info was saved, it would have re-ordered numbers correctly. MMBiology (talk) 23:09, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

@Yoyotime: If you look at your sandbox page, a lot of your references aren't real references - they're just numbers in square brackets. Try clicking on them and you'll see that they don't actually do anything. You need to replace these with properly-formatted references. Use the Cite tool on the visual editor to insert the references - you should be able to generate them using the PubMed ID for the article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:40, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Concerns about Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of California, Berkeley/Environmental Justice Section 105 (Spring 2017)

I guess it might be too late to do anything about it, but Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of California, Berkeley/Environmental Justice Section 105 (Spring 2017) seems like a disaster. I have been working on one of the articles created, which was terribly non-neutral. But I don't think it's the editor's fault - I think the students have been expected to write in biased way. The whole course is about "the assaults on the environment and environmental justice expected to unfold early in the Trump Presidency" (emphasis mine). So right from the start it is (a) anti-Trump, and (b) crystal-balling. Yes, the description does say "neutral, well-documented" but that does not appear to be happening. StAnselm (talk) 20:04, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I am working with the class and the instructor and TAs. This is definitely one of the areas that needs fixing which has been obvious to me, but it probably something I need to be a lot more specific when communicating. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:02, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I found out about this because of the WP:AfD on Food justice. I am not really surprised at very negative reaction here to Environmental Justice, since most active editors probably have little knowledge about the subject matter, many thinking the writing of science and technology trumps everything else. I am happy to help the instructor and students understand our sourcing rules under WP:RS, WP:NPOV and the issue with WP:OR that has come up in some of the articles in the course.

To be honest, I am having trouble figuring out who the instructor is, how to communicate with him/her based, or whether that is strongly discouraged. The way these courses is set up is confusing. For example this strange post: [2] by Ryan_(Wiki_Ed). I had mistakenly assumed the course was created by Helaine_(Wiki_Ed) until I read that. Then I thought maybe it was Ryan_(Wiki_Ed) or you, but now it appears that it is yet someone else entirely. It's hard to figure out, and I think other experienced editors will be equally confused.

As a former teacher, I am saddened to see how the students are being treated by experienced editors here. I think some of this is bad PR for Wikipedia and will further erode our reputation. It would help immensely, if ordinary editors like me and very experienced editors could more easily find a way to help these students and have more positive interactions than having their articles deleted. I tried doing outreach on one of these courses when I first saw it and I got *zero* response. That kind of lack of communication with experienced editors who don't know much about what is going on with these classes is likely leading to this unfortunate negativity and harsh treatment of students' work. I also see posts like this [3] that are not encouraging. --David Tornheim (talk) 05:04, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Ian! As far as I can tell the whole of students' work on Environmental Policy of Donald Trump is gone via the revision deletion process. So no way to compare what the students did to what emerged. I've asked the reverter to re-revert, but I don't get the sense that will work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Diannaa#Close_paraphasing_question Can you get their stuff back in Sandbox? Thanks! --EJustice (talk) 03:28, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

@EJustice: Close paraphrasing problems are copyright/plagiarism issues. Material deleted for those reasons can't be re-added because they infringe copyright. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

understood. you may not have time to sort this out right now, so let's let it lie. But the students involved say that they'd cited the material and that it wasn't very close paraphrasing. Same user who had those revisions deleted has done the same here... The students had quoted 2, non-contiguous sentences from this document, and the copyright terms were CCL, permitting such use clearly. Not too worried, but a) this is easily fair use by academic standards (small amount of quote, used in a non-profit context, from a non-profit think-tank who likely wants their writing disseminated) and b) given the likelihood of fair use, is it reasonable to delete the revision history instead of correcting the paraphrase/quote? Is wholesale revision deletion draconian in such cases or the norm? BTW don't respond till you have time to. I get what's going on here and how much of your time this is taking... Thanks! EJustice (talk) 17:22, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Just a note here: as I pointed out on EJustices talk page, the revision deletions above were requested when I discovered text from CNN, which was present throughout the revision deletions mentioned as well, and was copyrighted. I admit the mistake on the EESI text, I just saw the copyright symbol and because the CNN text had been discovered on the same article, removed because I didn't see the CCL notice. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Undoing student work at Phakomatosis

I understand this is a process with many editors. But I have always been under the impression that before deleting someone's work when they are in the midst of a major edit as announced on the Talk page, it is better to address your concerns on the talk page first, allowing the editors to respond. Jytdog undid my student's work because he didn't think it was an appropriate topic despite the fact that the stub existed (we didn't make it up). He started a thread on WP:MD and no consensus was reached. So, I undid his delete and now his buddy Doc James has re-deleted because he doesn't like the organization. Maybe he has a point but deleting it all rather than suggesting a re-organization removes a lot of work that was still better than what orginally existed on the page. Definitely wearing me out and after five years this semester is convincing me to bow out of the Wikipedia Foundation Education Program. MMBiology (talk) 23:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

I am sorry you are upset. Not my intention. Jytdog (talk) 23:36, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Ed guidelines

I have no idea what guidelines you are subject to on WikiEd - but as the person responsible for content on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_California,_Berkeley/Environmental_Justice_Section_101_(Spring_2017) I thought I would ask you.

"the first few months of a historically unique U.S. President whose agenda has been explicitly anti-environmental, sexist, and racist."

Granted, it's not on an article - but (while I might agree with the sentiment) I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be there.

Spacecowboy420 (talk) 09:04, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I have removed it from the page as a blatant BLP violation, but the wiki edu page needs to be changed so that the violation isn't restored via update. StAnselm (talk) 10:12, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Can we just log in and change it? I'm not sure about editing someone's project without them knowing about it. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 10:17, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Well, I removed it immediately per the BLP policy - which, of course, applies to all pages, not just articles. StAnselm (talk) 10:20, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I was a little reluctant, because I just got shouted at on ANI for removing content. But thanks and good work, it shouldn't have been there. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 10:47, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

@Spacecowboy420 and StAnselm: We never really gave much thought to what instructors put in their course descriptions - I assume most to include a summary will just copy it from their syllabus. Just changing it on-wiki isn't going to help, since the course pages are mirrors.

I agree, there are BLP concerns here. I will fix this. (There are actually 6 sections.) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:40, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Amartin19 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with submitting my article for edits.

Thank you, Abbey

--Amartin19 (talk) 00:07, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request

Dear Ian,

I am writing to inform you that my Wikipedia article (Amparo Acker-Palmer) has been tagged for speedy deletion due to my mistake of moving the article when it did not have any content at all. How will this affect my next attempt to move the article? Please let me know on how I should proceed, thank you!

Lemontree96 (talk) 16:47, 12 April 2017 (UTC)Lemontree96

Question

Hi Ian, how do I make a side box or those text boxes on upper left side of my wiki page? I'm working on US-Mexico Agua Prieta Pipeline! Thanks! Mick.romero (talk) 17:40, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Need Help Request

Hi Ian,

I am looking to make a new page for "locura." I have drafted a full article in my sandbox and I contacted a user who had previously deleted the page. After asking them why the article was deleted the response was that it was due to a "cross-namespace redirect." The redirect was to User:NessaPrincess/Locura. . I am unsure where to go from here, is it okay to still publish what I have? I think it is well cited and has some good information but want to get your opinion on what I should do. Thank! Brainsteam (talk) 20:09, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Help with moving content to mainspace

Hi Ian,

I'm from the Metabolic Biochemistry class led by Knchacon, I am still confused about the process of moving our draft in the sandbox to the mainspace. I would like to do it in small chunks rather than shift the whole page, but I am not sure about how to do that.

Thanks!

Majumak (talk) 21:09, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Course assignment - Cycad

There appears to be some confusion about the scope of the Cycad article. That article has been expanded in coverage within recent years because of the reassignment of the fossil order Medullosales to the Cycadopsida. This creates a huge shift in focus for that article, likely to be beyond the skill level of students in an introductory course. Splitting the original content was a good deal of work. Judging by the course assignment selections, and the level of the course, I would recommend editing instead at Cycadales, which contains the traditional (extant) "cycads". --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: Wow. I'm really sorry. Your advice is good and the student's response is totally out of line. I'm going to get in touch with their instructor - hopefully they can prevail upon the student. No way that's an acceptable response. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:42, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

discussion of POV forks

I just mentioned you here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#POV_forks_being_created_as_school_project and it said I had to let you know! (:-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EJustice (talk • contribs) 23:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Whatever the above editor was trying to do, it was reverted, just FYI. --Tarage (talk) 23:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I sussed it out, and replaced the content of their message here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Re:_POV_Forks --Tarage (talk) 23:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:13, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from TealPenguinFoot (talk)

Hi Ian!

I need help with moving a new article out of my sandbox. I moved the page and now I can find it in the Wikipedia main space, but it says that it is "not an article," but rather a part of a user's sandbox. How do I fix this and properly move the new article from my sandbox? Thanks!

--TealPenguinFoot (talk) 18:38, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @TealPenguinFoot: Looks like you managed to correct this yourself Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:44, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Lhalas (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Just a review of my intended further edits to the article, as well as what I have already written would be appreciated.

Thanks! --Lhalas (talk) 22:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Shelby234 (talk)

Hello Ian,

I have revised my article on buzz pollination for our class, however there is already an article on buzz pollination. I tried to cover other topics that the current article does not have. Before/If I moved my article over into Wiki, I just wanted to check with you. I didn't want to replace the article, but I don't know if maybe there is a way to combine them? Anyway, I just didn't know how to handle this, so any advice you have would be great!

Thanks!

--Shelby234 (talk) 01:46, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Spongebubble94 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with moving my article to the encyclopedia

thanks

--Spongebubble94 (talk) 01:49, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

I did figure it out. haha thanks... but now, how do I link my article to another article ? someone tagged my article as orphan and I want to link it to "Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spongebubble94 (talk • contribs) 20:08, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

MSU MMG 445-001 page moving

Please remind the students and/or instructors in Michigan State University's MMG 445-001 about page moving and article replacement. I am currently cleaning up messes left behind by User:Melaniea and User:Kibilos3, both students in that class. I'm not exactly sure what their intentions are. – Train2104 (t • c) 15:35, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for cleaning those up. I will pass the message on to the class. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:39, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

An edit filter has now been set up that warns new users when they attempt to move a page into the project namespace. This should solve that problem, but it may create more complicated messes like the second case here as students play trial and error. – Train2104 (t • c) 00:41, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much for setting up that edit filter. It wouldn't have crossed my mind, but I should keep that in mind for persistent problems like this. We also plan to adapt our guides and training modules more (though we already made changes to specifically try to address that problem, and they only help if people read them). Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from IanFaf120 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with uploading a picture to an article. I have a picture of a newspaper that I have taken myself however, upon going through the tutorials I am not so sure if I am allowed to use it. Am I allowed to upload the picture of the news paper?

faf120Faf120 (talk) 17:58, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello from SDSU's Research Methods Class!

Hi Ian,

About 15 students from our Research Methods class will be posting our Wiki drafts in the upcoming weeks. Please feel free to edit and suggest changes to our content!

Quick question: For those of us who are creating new Wiki pages, where should we post our first draft and how do we go about that?

Thanks!

Paige Hernandez — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Paige.hernandez (talk) 02:44, 21 April 2017 (UTC)unsigned]] comment added by Paige.hernandez (talk • contribs) 02:36, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Megamanhuy Megamanhuy (talk)

Hello.

I need help with editing the vomeronasal organ Wiki page. I created a new section in the page and put 2 sentences in so far. However, every time I came back and tried to make more edits or cited references, the error 500 would appear. My friend tried to edit the Wiki page on his laptop using his Wiki account and the same error appeared as well. Would you mind helping me with this? Megamanhuy (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

--Megamanhuy (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Help regarding Capital Soirée page

Hi there. I noticed my first ever article was up for only about two days before being nominated for a speedy deletion. What steps might I take to get the article where it needs to be? Did I not quite have enough sources to really make the case for the relevancy of my topic? Thanks --Zachrom (talk) 00:59, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Brianbizub (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Making sure this article is ready to be published on wikipedia.

--Brianbizub (talk) 01:52, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Artistryanthony (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

align sure my article is up to standards :) thank you

--Artistryanthony (talk) 17:16, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Acyl12 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

--Acyl12 (talk) 20:09, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

@Acyl12: I need something specific here. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:10, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Note - student tagging an article subject to DS

An article that is subject to discretionary sanctions, was just tagged as being part of student editing in the Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UCLA/Chem 153A Honors (Spring 2017) class. You are the liaison for the class; I suggest you warn them away from that article. Jytdog (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the heads up. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:57, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Help posting article

Hi Ian,

I need help posting my article. I was wondering if you could also review it to see if any changes need to be made.

Mahalo,

Laurabai (talk) 21:35, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Lolliolivia (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

phrasing things in ways that make sense and correcting any grammar mistakes.

--Lolliolivia (talk) 03:59, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Help for review of our page

Hi Ian, I am one of the reviewers on the Central Nervous System Cyst Page. I believe at the time you reviewed our article, we were in the early stages of its formation so you could not give us a substantial review. We have added much more information and were wondering if you might be able to take a look at it before we submit it later for grading today. Thank you!

Sistercerebrum (talk) 21:04, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Please help our nomination!

Hi! I'm a student contributor working on the Indigenous Environmental Network page, and I just suggested the page to be featured. We haven't gotten much feedback yet, so I'd appreciate if you could look over the page and help the nomination process! Thanks!

Gmhardesty (talk) 17:55, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank You

Hello Ian,

Thanks for adding the link. I also wanted to tell you thanks for helping me through the process of creating my article with anything that I need. I appreciate all of your04:11, 29 April 2017 (UTC)Spongebubble94 (talk) time, help, and fast responses. I believe my article has become a success with your help and I highly appreciate it.

Thanks again!

Best, Ashley

Hopkins course

Some trouble at Howard A. Kelly Jytdog (talk) 01:10, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Damn. That's problematic. Thank you! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:01, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Scaffold

Is scaffold a term you use in your courses? If so, what does it mean? --David Tornheim (talk) 05:55, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Specifically in the context of the Environmental Justice class I ended up using that term; I believe that Michel supplied it as he tried to rephrase what I was trying to say.

What I was trying to say was this: instead of creating an extremely specific article with no obvious "parent" article, create the parent article. And while it's better to create a good, balanced article, if you can't do that, create the framework on a good, balanced article, the scaffolding for a good balanced article, even if what you create has a lot of very thin sections.

Obviously I can't say anything with certainty, but it seems to me that, for example, a "coal mining in Appalachia" article that was thin on topics not related to environmental justice (but which nonetheless acknowledged them) would have met less resistance from the community than the article they eventually created. I may be wrong on this, but it was my best advice, given what their focus. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:56, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. That fully answers my question. --David Tornheim (talk) 16:53, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Tmgonzalez (talk)

Hello.

I need help with... I am planning on inserting this into the section about Ancient China on the History of Mental Illness wiki page. I was just wondering if you had any suggestions for improvement.

Thanks, Tmgonzalez (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

--Tmgonzalez (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Lambeau Field Article

Hi Ian, I am reaching out to you wondering if you would be able to possibly look over the previous edits I have made and answer a few questions. I am working on the Lambeau FIeld article. First off, I edited the Titletown District section because it was very vague and didn't provide updated information. I researched a lot of information and enhanced this section, however I received a notification saying "This section contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view." Would you be able to help me change it so it doesn't seem so "promotional?" Also, I noticed that the article doesn't have a section regarding "Holiday events," I was thinking of adding the following information:

A Halloween celebration, “Spooktacular Fun,” that includes live music, food, and performances from the like of magicians, clowns, and jugglers.

A December themed occasion, Festival of Lights, that highlights a visit from Santa Claus, decorating cookies, choirs signing, and many festive lights. </ref>http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-press-release/article-1/Eleventh-annual-Festival-of-Lights-at-Lambeau-Field-set-for-Dec-3/57c51db9-99c4-4a02-97b5-71209f9e343c</ref>

“Project Play 60” is a day in March that concentrates on getting kids out of the house to appreciate non-strenuous physical movement. More than 20,000 people attend the Atrium and enjoy activities. </ref>http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-press-release/article-1/Project-Play-60-set-for-March-4-in-Lambeau-Field-Atrium/93ed658c-7890-4027-a529-4735b1783311</ref>

Do you think this would be good information to add to the article? If so, where exactly should I put in it the article?

Thanks so much, I'm looking forward to your response!

Jmparr (talk) 16:57, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

References

Question

Hi Ian,

How do I start a new page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MTLE4470 grp1 AZ (talk • contribs) 18:08, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Isolari (talk)

Hello.

Can I have your feedback about the changes I made in the article "Fossil fuel phase-out"? Additionally to what I wrote, I removed biased paragraphs, and others that don't belong to the focus of the article. I added some references as well.

Thank you!

--Isolari (talk) 19:22, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Ian, I answered your comment in my talk page. Can you check my sandbox again now that is cleaner? I want to make sure that what I wrote is ready to be moved to the original article. Thank you!!! Isolari (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Gwej (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

I want a look over my draft to make sure everything looks okay. Currently there are no citations, which I will fix before I move my edits into wikipedia mainspace.

--Gwej (talk) 21:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Jmwr61097 (talk) Jack (Prof. Stine)

Hello.

I need help with...

Just the general voice I use when writing the entry. I do not want bias or a non-factual tone to slip in.

--Jmwr61097 (talk) 02:01, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kayla Vedral (talk)

Hello.

I need help with reviewing my article and then finding a picture. I had someone else review it there is one other section of information I would like to add to it but otherwise I think its done. I really would like to put pictures in there and I am just having trouble with that part as well.

--Kayla Vedral (talk) 03:05, 4 May 2017 (UTC)Kayla Vedral

Need help request from Hengrui

Hello.

I really appreciate if you can take a look at my article in sandbox. I am editing an article on a water transfer project in China. The link to the original wiki article is :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project. I edited the first paragraph and I also would like to add a section called " social and environmental impact". Any help or suggestion is much appreciated!

Thanks, Hengrui

--Hengruil (talk) 03:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC) Hengruil (talk) 03:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC)Hengrui Liu

Need help with adding my own picture about the vomeronasal organ

Hi Ian,

 I took a picture of the vomeronasal organ of the garter snake from one of my classes in the university. However, I couldn't upload the picture into the section that I created earlier in the Wiki page of the vomeronasal organ. The message said that "We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons."
 Thank youMegamanhuy (talk) 04:36, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Andyt6493 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with submitting my article. I am ready to turn my article in for review and final grade.

--Andyt6493 (talk) 09:33, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Jmwr61097 (talk) Jack (Prof. Stine) Responding

Hello Ian,

I have some citations at the beginning of my sandbox and then I have the current article with 4 bold paragraphs. Those are the ones that I added. So my draft is farther down on my sandbox. Tell me if it is still not visible.

Jack

--Jmwr61097 (talk) 16:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Vconstant (talk)

Hello.

I need help with making sure my article is polished enough for wikipedia.

-Victoria

--Vconstant (talk) 21:06, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Scarlettz1 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...the sandbox

im trying to do the training, but the "this is a user sandbox.." pops out every time i try to do an edit. how do i get my sandbox to not show me this window?

--Scarlettz1 (talk) 21:43, 5 May 2017 (UTC)scarlett

@Scarlettz1: FYI, you are welcome to peek at my sandbox to see what it looks like after I made lotsa edits. I too see that little box, but go there and click "view history" you'll see that I have made a long list of edits to it. You can do the same at yours. You can also recover the text you posted at Talk:Climate change by going there, clicking "view history", find your edit, copy that text, and then go to your sandbox, click edit, and paste the text to your sandbox. don't forget to save! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

PS Ian, I posted here instead of the users page since other classmates may have similar question and may benefit from the reply. Hope you don't mind, thanks for helping the instructor run the class! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi NAEG. We added that template to their sandboxes to that students could contact us easily for help, but it seems to create confusion for some people. It might be worth editing this training module a little (maybe adding a picture) to try to avoid this confusion. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:12, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

SOunds good; wish I had time to be more involved on regular basis. the project is a great idea. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

categories

Hey Ian,

How do I do this ? what does this mean?

"This article needs additional or more specific categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (April 2017)." Spongebubble94 (talk) 17:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Nnodal184 (talk)

Hello.

I need help with adding more information to the stub of Kahiko

this is what i have so far

Kahiko is also mentioned in The Legend of Waia. [1] the legend is that there was a head figure that had the ability to speak. He gave power to Kahiko because Waia lacked to keep up with his responsibilities as a cheif. --Nnodal184 (talk) 04:59, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Nmatamala (talk)

Hello Ian.

I am working with the Dr. Stine group on the Wikis and was wondering if you could check up on some things for me.

Specifically, is the tone of this article neutral? Does the introduction provide enough information to introduce the reader to the topic (too much, too little)? Is there a better way to format the table such the empty columns are collapsed? As of right now, all of the headers are important to ground the comparison across all official types of crude oil products.

Please let me know what I can do ensure that my article is useful for other Internet users. Thank you in advance!

--Nmatamala (talk) 15:32, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from MTLE4470 grp2 stl (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Making my article a legitimate article and not in my sandbox anymore. At the bottom of the page for "4-Dimensional Printing," it says that it is still in a sandbox. Why is that? How can I change it?

--MTLE4470 grp2 stl (talk) 01:58, 10 May 2017 (UTC)MTLE4470 grp2 stl

(talk page stalker) Please inform the instructor for this course not to make group accounts in the future, they are not permitted on Wikipedia. – Train2104 (t • c) 02:05, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

It looks like almost everyone in the class usernames that are Course.Group.Initials. That's still not a good idea for many reasons, but they probably only look like group accounts. But yes, I'm definitely going to advise the instructor to do things differently in the future. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:57, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

You should always remove that sandbox template when you move your work out of your sandbox. Click Edit, click on the sandbox template, and delete it. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:15, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Help with image please

Hi Ian. I uploaded an image on the Bird Anatomy page under Bursa of fabricius. I got the original image from Wiki commons and then I edited the image to signify the location of the structure. I need help on how to appropriately add this image. I received a message stating the the copyright was not correct. Any help would be appreciated!Adriennescarcella (talk) 15:49, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Adrienne

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:57, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Help

Hi Ian. I received your message but I am sti unsure how to go about this. I added the origina image to the Bird anatomy page but now how do I change it to the edited one? thanksAdriennescarcella (talk) 04:58, 12 May 2017 (UTC)Adrienne

Replied on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:18, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

The Afro Atlantic Theologies and Treaties Institute

“The AfroAtlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute, facilitates inter-faith and intra-religious cooperation across generations. By encouraging the development, exchange of ideas, creativity and scholarship among spiritual communities. The ATI advocates protecting the human, cultural and ecological rights of Africans and their descendants in the diaspora by upholding traditional historic sources of knowledge production and spiritual practices.” (ati-global.org)

The purpose of the institute is to preserve and encourage the development of African based spiritual traditions. 

Dowoti Desir, a Haitian Vodou Priestess and native of Port Au Prince, Haiti, founded the Institute in an attempt to protect the religion for persecution and maintain its principles. The preservation and education of Haitian Vodou practices are an important part of her work and purpose as a Haitian Vodou Priestess.

The Afro Atlantic Theologies and Treaties Institute represents practitioners of African based spiritual practices including Haitian Vodou and provide them with a platform to educate others. The Institute serves to combat negative stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding these spiritual practices while preserving their history as well as African culture. The institute believes in faith and healing as a commitment to social activism and hosts many programs and events that promote the preservation and development of these belief systems. > --Alexmaria308 (talk) 15:12, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

The Afro Atlantic Theologies and Treaties Institute

The AfroAtlantic Theologies & Treaties Institute, facilitates inter-faith and intra-religious cooperation across generations. By encouraging the development, exchange of ideas, creativity and scholarship among spiritual communities. The ATI advocates protecting the human, cultural and ecological rights of Africans and their descendants in the diaspora by upholding traditional historic sources of knowledge production and spiritual practices.

Dowoti Desir, a Haitian Vodou Priestess and native of Port Au Prince, Haiti, founded the Institute in 2015 in an attempt to protect the religion from persecution and maintain its principle after being appointed Ambassador at large for the National Confederation of Haitian Vodou. The preservation and education of Haitian Vodou practices are an important part of her work and purpose as a Haitian Vodou Priestess. In addition to being a spiritual leader, Manbo Dowoti is also a human rights activist and acts as chairperson for the Committee for the Elimination of Racism, Afrophobia and Colorism within the United Nations and uses her work with the institute to revolutionize the way many few African spirituality.

The Afro Atlantic Theologies and Treaties Institute is to preserve and encourage the development of African based spiritual traditions. The Institute represents practitioners of African based spiritual practices including Haitian Vodou and provide them with a platform to educate others. The Institute serves to combat negative stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding these spiritual practices while preserving their history as well as African culture. The institute believes in faith and healing as a commitment to social activism and hosts many programs and events that promote the preservation and development of these belief systems.

--Alexmaria308 (talk) 15:22, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

References

Hi Alexmaria308. As I just mentioned on your talk page, I'm happy to help, but I don't know what you're asking. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:26, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Student possibly in need of assistance

FYI, VSCO (VSCO Cam) has been G11'ed a few times, enough for a (justified) salting...turns it out was created by a student in one of the courses you help with. You may want to assist User:Khanra26. – Train2104 (t • c) 05:21, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Unarchiving - the student has revised the draft, but moved it to the talk page due to the salting. I've moved it back to User:Khanra26/VSCO (VSCO Cam) so it doesn't get G8'ed. – Train2104 (t • c) 02:08, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:58, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

I've emailed the instructor (again). Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:17, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Ice core

FYI, I've been working on the ice core article and will shortly be taking it to peer review. A recent course had students leave talk page notes with two sources that could be used to improve the article; you might like to let the professor know that a couple of the papers cited turned out to be very useful, covering points I did not have good sources for elsewhere:

• Alley, Richard B. (2010). "Reliability of ice-core science: historical insights" (PDF). Journal of Glaciology. 56: 1095–1103.
• Uglietti, Chiara (2016). "Radiocarbon dating of glacier ice: overview, optimisation, validation and potential" (PDF). The Cryosphere. 10: 3091–3105. doi:10.5194/tc-10-3091-2016. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |displayauthors= ignored (|display-authors= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

Please pass along my thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:08, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Skosaveach (talk)

Hello.

I need help with... putting my first article in and editing it

--Skosaveach (talk) 06:08, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from JCchild (talk)

Hello. I'm JCchild, and I'm in N603 class for Umass Amherst I need help with... Why is Wiki saying "page not exist" for me and how do I participate in with my classmate? Thanks

--JCchild (talk) 05:38, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello.

I am Krista Franzese

--Kristafranzese (talk) 15:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kristafranzese (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Can I use a photo that I took off of my phone?

--Kristafranzese (talk) 17:28, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Kristafranzese (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

I am editing the article vintage clothing, and I took pictures of vintage stores, is that acceptable?

--Kristafranzese (talk) 22:14, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for the warm welcome to Wiki Education! TJ (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:32, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Loggerhead sea turtle policies of the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017)

Hi. I'm a New Page Reviewer (and a biologist) and I have just left what I always hope is constructive feedback on Loggerhead sea turtle policies of the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017). It was only afterwards that I spotted the creator is one of your students (@Kcawdrey:). Please review my comments on their talk page (which I have repeated in the article's talk page. In the light of the work being a student project they may seem over-critical, but I'm always keen to encourage new editors. I must leave it to you to decide how to support students in the light of feedback such as mine, and I hope the article can be improved in the light of it. It's important that notability is demonstrated, and I feel the mismatch of the article title and content has not helped. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:44, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Nick Moyes I only came across the article recently, and I think you're right on the notability issue. Several students from that class created articles that should probably be upmerged into a general "Environmental policy of the Barack Obama administration" article. As for the feedback you gave - I think it's entirely appropriate. When you come across student work, treat them like you would any other newcomer. And feel free to ping User:Shalor (Wiki Ed) or me, if there's anything we can help with. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:09, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Great work done on Ovarian drilling

'Your students' did a wonderful job on editing Ovarian drilling, an article that I created. I have emailed one of them to thank them and to invite to continue their editing. The encyclopedia is better because of them.

Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 22:22, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Barbara! I'll pass your note onto their professor. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Need help request from Briannachew (talk)

Hello.

I need help with...

Reviewing my sandbox for an article! I just finished writing my ideas, but in terms of actually creating the article, where do I go? Do I just format it in the sandbox?

--Briannachew (talk) 14:59, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Need assistance adding content to Wikipedia

Hello Ian, I am part of the SDSU ED690 summer 2017 course. I have my contributions and I am ready to add to an article page. I am unsure of a few things such as citing references. I have all I wish to contribute on my sandbox. Maybe you can assist me with the task of correctly adding my work to Wikipedia.

Thank you kindly, KyleMasonVance (talk) 22:08, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Student not getting it

See Himalayan salt - this student Jhread is pounding the article with awful alt-med refs. Please intervene. Jytdog (talk) 03:17, 12 August 2017 (UTC)