User talk:MariaDroujkova

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Proposed deletion of Massive open online course


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Your contributed article, Multiplication and Repeated Addition


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Multiplication and Repeated Addition. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Mathematics education. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Mathematics education - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Hi Scopecreep, can you please un-mark this for deletion? We have been working on the content of this article for about a month, with a large group of math educators. I am just compiling everything and moving it to the page, today. I want to invite others to help, but the deletion note can be demotivating to people.

Embodied design (mathematics education)
Hello! I have just added some tags to this article which you are creating. I tried to add the following "Note to creator" but some glitch or other prevented it, so here is my comment.

This is not an encyclopedia article: it is advocacy. It needs to start by explaining (in an out-of-world view) what "Embodied design" is -- for example, "A theory developed by xyz". How much longer (really!) you do expect to take to paste in your text?

Imaginatorium (talk) 13:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

We are working on this article with some graduate students from a course. It takes a while to assemble everybody's contributions, and then to edit them to Wikipedia standards. I just updated the time estimate. I will be working on editing for less advocacy and more taxonomic definitions. Thanks for pointing out the issue!


 * Please sign your comments with four tildes (will be replaced by your ID and the date). Please note also that Wikipedia is not a scrapbook for people to assemble work in. I suggest you put together your article somewhere else, then submit it to WP. Imaginatorium (talk) 13:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

There are multiple people editing this article, which you can see from the history. We did work on drafts separately, in the different spaces with some back and forth comments, but now the time came to move the article here. I started several good articles via a similar group process, some of them growing nicely, like the article on MOOCs. The added bonus is training of new Wikipedia editors. Embodied design is a big current topic in mathematics education, an article is needed, and I am making it happen via a process that has worked well in the past on multiple articles, without undue strain on any participants. Just wait a few more days and it will be all better. MariaDroujkova (talk) 13:34, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Ways to improve Embodied design (mathematics education)
Hi, I'm Imaginatorium. MariaDroujkova, thanks for creating Embodied design (mathematics education)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please do not remove tags which still apply: the article does not read like an encyclopedia, it reads like advocacy. See talk page.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:48, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Imaginatorium, I thought I addressed all the issues but grammar today, but I am happy for all the current tags to stay till some other people work on the article some more, etc. To the best of my knowledge, none of the people registered so far have direct connections to the subject of the article, other than all of us working in mathematics education in general, and having an interest in embodied design. If you want to help improve the article, the next to-do task is to link TO it from other relevant articles in mathematics education and psychology. Thanks for your care! MariaDroujkova (talk) 18:47, 3 April 2014 (UTC)