Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Courses/Sport in Society (Shelly Habel)

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This is a place where you can ask questions, talk about problems, and discuss the Wikipedia assignment with classmates and other Wikipedians.--Buggie111 (talk) 01:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Office Hours
Hi! I wanted to announce that we Wikipedia campus ambassadors at Georgetown are going to be offering Wikipedia office hours three days a week starting on Monday, February 6. You can come visit us (no appointment necessary!) during these times to get help using Wikipedia. The hours are as follows: Please note: we obviously won't be available on university holidays!
 * Mondays 1-5 at CNDLS (Car Barn 314)
 * Thursdays 1-5 at CNDLS (Car Barn 314)
 * Fridays 1-4 at Gelardin New Media Center (Lauinger Library)

Please email me (alk34@georgetown.edu) or leave me a talk message if you have questions. Thanks! Sleuthwood (talk) 22:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

College athletics
Hi. User:Carajs94 and User:Aoa24 were involved with editing College athletics. The article they were working on has subsequently been moved to College athletics in the United States. This impacts the article User:Aoa24 and User:Carajs94 will be assessed on. Beyond that, User:Aoa24's edits have created a conflict of interest problem because  User:Aoa24 is more concerned about classroom assessment than on following Wikipedia guidelines and actually improving the article. They asked that the article be moved back to College athletics instead of addressing the tags on the article because they did not want to e-mail you to inform you of these issues. The edits made by User:Aoa24 have given undue weight to the topic of College athletics in the United States. The article is lacking in history and roughly a third of the article now focuses on this topic. At most, this deserves a paragraph or three in the article. Also, the student really should be learning about the global nature of sport and that college athletics exist outside the United States. Accusing people of being anti-American because they asked for a tag to be addressed and the article to be globalised? It doesn't speak well of student preparedness to edit because they do not understand the GLOBAL nature of Wikipedia. (Hello from the sport programme at another university.)

Any assessment of student work in relation to this article is thus poor. They need to address WP:UNDUE and demonstrate WP:COI is not a problem. --LauraHale (talk) 03:22, 19 April 2012 (UTC)