User talk:Helen Purdy

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Nice work!
Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Helen Purdy (talk) 22:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Sandbox work
Hi Helen Purdy. I'm providing online support for your class and I just wanted to let you know it looks like you're making great progress on your draft. I've changed the formatting of the citations a bit so they're a little easier for the readers to verify, but I haven't found the need to change much else! Good job and let me know if you need a hand with anything. Thanks, Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Indian Half-bred page
Under the circumstances you describe, I will not review any edits on this page for at least a few days. Editors usually work independently without knowing who else may be reviewing recent edits, so I can only speak for myself. Good luck with the project. Donner60 (talk) 00:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your understanding Helen Purdy (talk) 00:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Your edits had quite a few things that needed fixing. To post to all editors who worked on the page, I posted at Education Program talk:Oregon State University/Writing for the Web (Spring 2015).  By the way, your "Therefore, it would be appreciated if any edits of the page be saved until after this week has passed." tone was quite snotty and off-putting.  Anyone can edit wikipedia.  You are certainly wise to mention that you are working on the article as a student project, but you do not WP:OWN an article and should not imply that you do.  Luckily, you found one that had recently been through a cleanup of copyright violations and was therefore in rather sad shape.   Montanabw (talk)  06:48, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi . I don't think that reading of tone is quite right. If we assume student editors are just like any other new editor, they could just as easily have considered it a polite request. We're both pretty steeped in the norms and practices of the community, so we bristle at "please don't revert" or "must stay up until X". Indeed none of us are under any obligation to acquiesce, and with Wiki Ed supported classes we make it clear that grades should not be contingent upon edits "sticking". But most students who make these requests don't know that (or were told something different) and they're genuinely nervous about their work being messed up in progress. So that reading may not be the only interpretation. Thanks. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 13 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. When I see student projects, I generally fear seeing junk I have to clean up like "the mean badgers" or entire articles erased and replaced with cut and pasted term papers. You can understand why I'd be jumpy.    Montanabw (talk)  17:50, 13 May 2015 (UTC)