User talk:Pauljosephconway

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Pauljosephconway (talk) 03:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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Empirical studies
Hi Paul, I have now removed several empirical studies from Wikipedia articles. Do I understand correctly that adding an empirical study is part of the students' assignment? In such case, that creates a real problem, because only a few studies are important enough to be described in Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia, and it should describe accepted knowledge, preferably from secondary sources. One of the students had added a study in which the "results only partially supported the hypothesis." Another one had results "that need further studies to validate their findings." Studies like that simply do not belong in Wikipedia.

This is a frustrating situation, both for the students who see their text removed, and for us regular editors, who need to remove and clean up. Lova Falk     talk   09:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Paul! I don't know if you have noticed that this discussion has continued at: User talk:Pauljosephconway/Psychology 2410A at King's? With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   20:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Psychology 2410A at King's
Hi Paul!

Would it be an idea to use a subpage on "Psychology 2410A at King's", where you can list which students participate on which Wiki-article? You can link to it on your user-page, and link to it on the talk-pages of articles where your students participate. It looks like you can use some help here in monitoring those articles, before frustrations rise really high. See also User talk:Lova Falk. You could also use a template at the talk-pages, to inform other editors of your project. Greetings, Joshua Jonathan (talk) 06:03, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Joshua

Thanks for the suggestion. That is a good idea--so good, in fact that we have already implimented it twice, once via the APS Wikipedia portal, and once again through the Wikipedia Canada Education Program. Cheers, Paul Conway, Instructor, Introduction to Child Development, Fall 2012, King's University College Canada 20:32, 26 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Great! And sorry for the harrassment; actually I like the idea to use Wikipedia for education. Joshua Jonathan (talk) 20:39, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Not at all. Thanks for your interest! Paul Conway, Instructor, Introduction to Child Development, Fall 2012, King's University College Canada 21:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC)