Talk:GLOBE Program

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Dear Editors of Wikipedia, Please remove the two editor alerts that appear on the GLOBE Program page that occurred immediately following minor update of content on the page. The description provided is not an advertisement, rather it is a description of an international government funded program. The information contained on the page is factual and is written in a neutral point of view. Please remove orange exclamation point and editor balance icon and related notes. Thank you. Teresa Kennedy, Deputy Director of the GLOBE Program and Jan Heiderer, Communications Coordinator of the GLOBE Program GLOBEHQ (talk) 18:15, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Dear ThemfromSpace, Thank you for your suggestions. We believed that we had followed the guidelines for editing articles about our organization which states that we "may do so as specified within the COI guideline, but must be extremely careful to follow policies." We thought that we had been extremely careful to only include factual/historical information about the program. It is not a solicitation. GLOBE is a 14-year old program that is incorporated into the educational systems in the 110 countries collaborating on the project. The article is not a ad; rather the article describes the program. We were alerted that the content in the GLOBE article on the Wikipedia site was not correct and therefore we consulted with the policies and corrected only the information already existing on the site as we understood was acceptable according to Wikipedia policy. No new sections were added. A complete explanation of all edits is listed below:

(1) Section 1: Incorrect history of the establishment of the Program, and incorrect program description of audience involved (e.g. citing NOAA as the funder when it is NASA/NSF, and not citing all the founders of the program to provide equal ownership). Edits were made to include all founders and cite the correct governmental funding base and to include K-16 age groups participating in the program.

2) Section 2: History, Vision and Mission Incorrect vision statement of the program. This vision was created by the international GLOBE community and needed to be corrected for protection of their Programs. Incorrect historical time line cited the beginning of the Program in 1994 when it began in 1995. Edits were made to the historical dates and to incorporate the correct vision, mission and goals.

3) Section 3: Activities Minor edits were made to include the proper inquiry-based pedagogical structure of the activities.

4) Contribution by schools: Minor edits were made to update the impact numbers.

5) Contribution by scientists: Minor edits were made to correct the citation suggesting that the program is only to benefit the research of the scientists since the program is aimed at benefiting students first with scientist as a secondary benefit.

6) Joining the Program Minor edits were made to this section to show that the program is open to all.

7) Miscellaneous fact: Minor edits were made to this section to list facts/accomplishments related to the Program.

8) External links: Significant edits were made to this section. This section listed Web sites for the UK and Australia as the only external links to the Program. GLOBE is conducted in 110 countries (with 140 Partners in the U.S. alone). Almost all these Partners have their own Web sites (meaning that potentially this section could contain over 200 links to individual Web sites for GLOBE around the world). Listing only a couple of the sites caused an equity issue related to all the other countries not having their sites listed, which also introduces a significant problem of potentially having many sites listed that might not function over time. Therefore, we believe that it is best to list only the main GLOBE Web site since links to all the Web sites around the world is located on the main GLOBE Web site.

9) Sources section: No changes were made to this section Thank you for assisting us to ensure that the information provided on Wikipedia regarding the GLOBE Program is accurate/factual and of encyclopedic nature. This is our only desire. GLOBE is a free program that has been operating since 1995 and is well established in 110 countries around the world. We believe that all information contained on the GLOBE Wikipedia page is historical/factual information.

Please let us know what you would like us to do to rectify this situation. We appreciate your assistance. One additional question: Our Partners would like to provide a translation of the final approved page on Wikipedia in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish (the additional UN languages). How should we submit these translations once the page has been approved? Please advise. Thank you again for your assistance. GLOBEHQ —Preceding unsigned comment added by GLOBEHQ (talk • contribs) 23:04, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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