User talk:UmichSSG215

Who we are and what we are doing
Over the course of this winter semester (Jan-April) students enrolled in the University of Michigan Honors section of Organic Chemistry II will be editing three current named reactions sites, the Ritter reaction, the Appel reaction and Jones oxidation. For each page, the students will be adding four sections, history, animation, spectroscopy and applications.


 * The history section will give a brief background about the reaction.
 * The animation section will provide a detailed animation of the mechanism for this reaction and we hope to add a sound track to accompany each step.
 * The spectroscopy section will highlight the major changes that will occur in the NMR spectra during the course of the reaction.
 * Finally, the applications section will describe how this reaction is used today in various chemical settings.

The SSG leaders listed at the bottom of our userpage will be facilitating this project and the students will be creating their rough drafts in our sandboxes. No edits will be posted until the final page is completed at the end of the semester.

Image
The image you uploaded does not give a License term for it. You have to specify if the image is now public domain or if you retain certain rights, like using GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses.--Stone (talk) 09:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * still up for deletion.--Stone (talk) 07:40, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Help is always welcome
From your edit at the talk page of Jones oxidation I think you got the right impression. The problem with sandbox edits is that the people hide and do not interfere with the rest of the community. In that case they have to learn everything on their own without advice from people with more experience. I think this is bad example for learning how to do work and gain knowledge. I like the concept of a master and his apprentice ;-). The hit and run edits from university projects also scare away people from wikipedia. At the end when you go life you do not have friends in wikipedia and you do not have credibility, because you have no edits in the article space. When a problem comes up you do not know to handle it and with a lot of tripwires everywhere you are easy prey for people to ban or block you for violating the rules. Than you have worked hard and your article is neither honoured nor welcomed by others and you go away with the feeling that wikipedia is a close circle of people biting newbies. We want to draw at least 10% of your students into wikipedia as editors, but this is most likely not happening when they do not find a place they like to work on and have fun.

There are competitions like the WikiCup or games like the DAB challenge or the large wikiprojects like WikiProject_Military_history or the fun to write an article becoming a Did_you_know article featured at the wikipedia main page or the fun to hunt down vandals and ban them from editing. For everybody there must be a place where he can contribute and have fun.

One question I have is: Are the students allowed to use the account for something not related to the course ?

--Stone (talk) 22:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)