User talk:JMathiason

Hi, I notice that you are an instructor for a course where students are expected to write Wikipedia articles. Can you please ask your students to use the WP:DRAFT space to post their articles, instead of directly into the mainspace? Such pages are often not suited to be used as articles on the English Wikipedia, either needing some basic work or being completely unacceptable (as essays, criticism, or rewrites of one scientific article instead of a general overview of a subject). I notice e.g. that the assignments you have given include "Methodological and Ethical Challenges to Conducting Human Trafficking Studies: A Case Study of Korean Trafficking and Smuggling for Sexual Exploitation to the United States", which is unlikely to make a good enwiki article (there has to have been significant, indepth commentary already published in reliable sources on that publication to make a good article; a student (or anyone else for that matter) making a summary and writing a review of such a publication would not be an acceptable article, as it would likely fail our no original research and notability rules.

On the other hand, something like Feminism in Indonesia is a perfect topic for an enwiki article, assuming that is about the general subject "feminism in Indonesia" and not a specific article or book with that title. The latter may still be a suitable subject for an article, but it would be much better to first write the general article than having an article on a book about that topic.

You can always check with User:Ian (Wiki Ed) on how best to proceed (and I invite Wiki Ed to correct any wrong information I may have given here). Fram (talk) 15:40, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram: Thanks for pointing this out to us. It looks like a few students in the course jumped the gun a bit and moved their work before it was ready, and another is having some technical issues with moving work into the article main space. We're working with the professor. thanks again. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:13, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]