Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Alverno College/BI302 Virology (Spring 2015)

You can use this talk page to send me and our ambassadors questions about wikipedia. S L Seston (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I would like to remind people in this course that on Wikipedia we don't use images as (simply) illustrations, the images have to be directly relevant to the content of the article. Also, in articles about persons, if the article has an infobox then the "image" field of the infobox is meant for a photo of that person; any image that is not a photo of that person should not be added to the top of the article, but instead to a relevant section in the article. Basically, don't put a picture of a virus into a person's infobox. That's funny at best and insulting at worst. :o) — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 18:39, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I will pass this information along to the students so they can fix it. Although, as I scientist, I would much rather have a picture of the organism I study than a picture of myself in my infobox! S L Seston (talk) 22:30, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

After a sentence cite a source
Hello, I just deleted a lot of content in Mary K. Estes. Wikipedia has a quality control process. One aspect of that process is checking to see whether content added to Wikipedia matches some published source.

An excellent way to be in compliance with Wikipedia's guidelines is to provide a citation to a published source after every sentence added to Wikipedia. Checking cited sources is how Wikipedia reviews verify the accuracy of contributed content.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  15:02, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, not exactly "after every sentence", that would be overkill. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 15:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Course update
This is the last week of class and the students are absolutely dead scared that they are going to fail if their article is deleted or changed so much that it is just a stub. Feedback is great, the more the better. I want them to interact with editors without getting too upset. Please give them a chance to respond via the talk page and help them understand what to do. They have been through the tutorials, but they are very green. If after May 22nd the articles do not meet criteria for any reason, then they should be deleted through the normal deletion process as soon as possible.S L Seston (talk)