User talk:Moose237
School Project[edit]
Hello! I noticed you mentioned you are working on a "school project". Could you provide more info? Usually these are done through WikiEd. glman (talk) 20:08, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Sure thing, for our final project of the semester our professor has given us the assignment to add productive content to a Wikipedia page of our choosing, based on our prior knowledge and targeted research. Learning how to correctly edit a Wikipedia page without discrediting anyone’s work before and learning to comply with the Wikipedia standards. We took the “Wikipedia Training Modules” quiz as well to make sure we possessed the knowledge to work on a Wikipedia page. I tried a few other pages but after I went into the “talk” page some of the editors that frequently use the page went ahead and added the information, so seeing as how I go to this university, I figured I would have good knowledge about what I could add on to the Wikipedia page. The assignment is due tonight, but if there are some edits, we have the time until he grades our assignment to work with the other community members to make edits and try to keep our contributions on the Wikipedia page. Moose237 (talk) 20:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, Moose237. just so you know, adding anything to a Wikipedia page "based on [your] prior knowledge" is strictly forbidden (per core Wikipedia policy WP:No original research), and will result in escalating warnings on your Talk page, followed by a suspension of your editing privileges if you ignore the warnings. So, you don't want to do that. (Note that this is just as true if your professor, who wrote the definitive textbook on Underwater Basketweaving, tries to update our article on that based on their world-beating prior knowledge; they will get whacked just the same.) Instead, follow our WP:Verifiability policy, do your research, find reliable sources, write citations to the sources you find, and include them with your addition to the article. HTH, Mathglot (talk) 00:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Of course, I understand what your saying, the “based on prior knowledge” part of the project was just do we would add on to a Wikipedia page that was a topic that intrigues us. I apologize if I made it sound like I was just adding information for simply a grade, our professor was very insistent on us having sources to cite our information.
- (Thank you to all who are responding by the way) Moose237 (talk) 03:15, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Moose237, could you ask your instructor to get in touch with my colleague Helaine at helaine
wikiedu.org (if you're in the US or Canada) or drop a note at the Education noticeboard if you're located elsewhere? Depending on where you are, there are various kinds of support available for instructors running assignments on Wikipedia that help things go a lot more smoothly. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:47, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- Moose237, could you ask your instructor to get in touch with my colleague Helaine at helaine
- Hello, Moose237. just so you know, adding anything to a Wikipedia page "based on [your] prior knowledge" is strictly forbidden (per core Wikipedia policy WP:No original research), and will result in escalating warnings on your Talk page, followed by a suspension of your editing privileges if you ignore the warnings. So, you don't want to do that. (Note that this is just as true if your professor, who wrote the definitive textbook on Underwater Basketweaving, tries to update our article on that based on their world-beating prior knowledge; they will get whacked just the same.) Instead, follow our WP:Verifiability policy, do your research, find reliable sources, write citations to the sources you find, and include them with your addition to the article. HTH, Mathglot (talk) 00:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
