User talk:Advevol

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Leaving inline comments in articles
Howdy - I have noticed that students in your course have taken to leaving review comments for other students' work as inline comments in the article text (e.g. at Human jaw shrinkage). I am assuming that this was something they were instructed to do? It is not a good practice, and runs somewhat counter the intended division of Wikipedia space into audience-facing (the article) and editor-facing (the talk page). Article markup is intended to be editable by any reader, and thus should consist only of material that applies to, and is editable, by everyone; having what is in essence private conversations going on in the code is not compatible with that. The "<!-- " inline comment structures are intended for rare notes that also apply to every editor (stuff like "this may have to be updated on X/X/X when the new IUCN assessment is published" etc.).

Could you please communicate to your students to use the article's talk page for review comments instead? That is the general practice for course projects. Cheers! -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Add: of course this applies only once the article has been published. So if inline commenting is strongly desired, that might be an argument for leaving articles in draft or user space until they have been reviewed by all participants. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:34, 8 April 2021 (UTC)