User talk:Lkurtz116

Hi Lee, welcome to the Global Education Program! Annie Lin (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 23:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Georgia Gwinnett College: Mycology (Lee Kurtz)


The article Georgia Gwinnett College: Mycology (Lee Kurtz) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Should be transwikied to Wikiversity.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 18:04, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Georgia Gwinnett College: Mycology (Lee Kurtz)/Course description


The article Georgia Gwinnett College: Mycology (Lee Kurtz)/Course description has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Should be transwikied to Wikiversity.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 18:06, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Explain
I fear you have got the wrong idea about university projects. They are for improving Wikipedia as an encyclopedia. Wikipeida is not a free host for you to to write up your college's courses. That goes on the college's own wiki. If you are planning a student project, then a description of it using the course page template should be in the Wikipedia: namespace. Look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Course page. &mdash; RHaworth 22:26, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about the confusion
Hi Lee! I'm so sorry about the above confusion. Since you created it without the "Wikipedia:" prefix in the title, your course page was treated like a regular Wikipedia article rather than a course page. I've restored it and moved it to the proper location: United States Education Program/Courses/Mycology (Lee Kurtz). You can continue building it from there. Again, sorry about any stress that caused you. If you need any help or have questions, don't hesitate to ask. We have a few mushroom editors who are interested in working with your class as Online Ambassadors, by the way. Cheers --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Sage, I am sorry, I thought I was just following the instructions but obviously I missed something. Thanks for helping to fix it. I am looking forward to talking with the mushroom editors, but I think we will concentrate on filamentous fungi since that is what I know more about. The students may have a different idea however. Regards Lkurtz116 (talk) 18:41, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Online ambassador
Hello, I have put my name down as an online ambassador to help people edit Wikipedia. I have no knowledge of the subject matter though. So it would be good to get a member from WikiProject Fungi to assist. You can contact me on my talk page, or send me an email for more private conversation. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Userspace drafts
Hi. Two of the students on your class, and  have today created blank articles, containing only the title and your course template. Because we do not like readers to find empty articles, one of the criteria for speedy deletion is WP:CSD "No content". We will usually wait a few minutes to see if content appears, but these had been empty for nearly an hour and over three hours when I came on them as administrator patrolling the speedy deletion queue.

I have explained to both students that there is no need to put in empty articles as a "placeholder", and it doesn't look good if a reader of the encyclopedia comes upon them. The right way to take time about creating an article is to start with a draft in a user sub-page. There is a page at Help:Userspace draft which explains this, and provides a form to start one. Then the article can be moved into the main encyclopedia only when it is ready, avoiding the risk of premature deletion.

Perhaps you could explain this to the other students in your class. JohnCD (talk) 20:58, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * And a third, . JohnCD (talk) 10:18, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyright
While I am here, I would like to raise another matter: copyright. We have recently had a great deal of trouble from other student projects with students copying information into Wikipedia from elsewhere, sometimes repeatedly until it has been necessary to block their accounts. Copying material in is almost never acceptable: if you have not already been pointed to it, please read Copy-paste, which explains this clearly, and get all the students to read it too. Close paraphrasing explains that minor rewording of the source text is not enough to avoid a copyright violation, and they need to understand that as well. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:58, 4 November 2011 (UTC)