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Speedy deletion nomination of Glendora Emily/sandbox
Hello Brianda (Wiki Ed),
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Glendora Emily/sandbox for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.
If you don't want Glendora Emily/sandbox to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!
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No worries. That said, it was an automated message sent after I spotted it in NPP which you probably didn't need to receive! Bungle(talk • contribs)06:17, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Page mover granted
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@Krouse20 Hi there! First I suggest you take a look at how to create a sandbox page so you can draft your contribution there first. That way you can add the citations to reliable sources. Once your draft is finalized, each sentence has a citation, and it follow Wikipedia formatting, then you can add your contribution to the existingFood industry article. Make sure to check out the training modules I've linked throughout this message since they explain in detail how to add citations and edit existing articles. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out and we can continue this conversation. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Error Code: "No stashed content found for ........."
Hi Brianda, Trying to publish my draft in the sandbox and keep getting an error code: "No stashed content found for ........." I've tried moving multiple things around, backtracking my steps , etc. Looking into settings now. Wondering if you have any idea on what the issue could be? Thistooktoolong (talk) 00:29, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Thistooktoolong, The first step to take is to complete the training modules that explain how to go to do this in detail. Take a look the training module titled "Keeping track of your work on the dashboard". It explains how to first assign yourself the topic of your choice to work on, and then how to create a sandbox, where you can then add your work. Once you review the training module you should be able to publish your draft to the sandbox. Feel free to reach out with any other questions. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:57, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
I have looked at those, and I think it was because I had the page open for A very long time and the tokens expired or a combination of me going out of order in procedures. Thank you very much . Thistooktoolong (talk) 02:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Having trouble moving article out of sandbox.
Hi Brianda,
I thought I had moved my article properly out of sandbox and onto main, seems I did it incorrectly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
After Moving was shown- Move Succeeded: The page "User:Thistooktoolong/sandbox" (links | edit) has been moved to "Aaron Paul Orsini" (edit I history I links I
@Thistooktoolong Part of the problem is that you moved your sandbox, which was pretty empty, to mainspace. You did not move User:Thistooktoolong/Aaron Paul Orsini, where you had developed your draft text. Looking at that text, it needs some cleanup, but it is probably ready for mainspace. Let me know if you need assistance in moving it; otherwise, I will leave it for you to attempt to move yourself. —C.Fred (talk) 11:13, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
@Thistooktoolong - First check out @C.Fred's detailed explanation above, and then check out this training module on moving work to mainspace. Open the page User:Thistooktoolong/Aaron Paul Orsini, and follow the instructions on the training module, and it should work out. If you get stuck, let me know.
I need help with... fixing the date and source error messages on the citation on my sandbox page that I just added today.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
I completed the evaluating articles and sources, plagiarism, and policies trainings on wiki and they were marked as completed but they no longer are. Instead, now I just have the option to start all of them even though I've done them. Is there a way for my professor to still see that I have done them or a way to make sure this does not happen again with future trainings? Stellandmace1004 (talk) 16:46, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Stellandmace1004, I took a look at your dashboard and it shows those trainings as completed on time. Email me a screenshot of what you see, if it shows differently on your dashboard.
A little explanation of the training materials: The training modules are the slides that need to be read through and once those are completed the dashboard automatically marks them as complete. The exercises are more hands on and those need to be manually marked complete by the user.
I'd say just make sure that you are always logged into the dashboard when completing any of the trainings and exercises, and the dashboard should track everything correctly. If this problem persists, email me a screenshot of the issue and we'll look into it further. Looping in @Hydrangea*392. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda (Wiki Ed). This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Dic Ann's Hamburgers, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Hey Briana, I'm kind of confused about what exactly we're supposed to do for this finding potential articles exercise. Is this our selection for the article we're making? do we pick 3 or 5 articles to evaluate? Is it something else entirely? Do we need to pick low quality articles and evaluate them, or high-quality articles and evaluate them? Sorry, the instructions didn't make a lot of sense to me. Conman173 (talk) 02:28, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) Hi, Conman173, I'm a volunteer editor here (just like you, but without the ongoing class). I help out here sometimes, and I just wanted to clear up some things in your question, which may help Brianda ⟵(note the spelling!) help you when she sees your question.
So, first of all, I just want to place your question in context: do I understand correctly that you are looking at item ②, page 6, of the Wiki ed "Editing Wikipedia" pdf? If so, in your question are you saying that you don't understand how to apply it, or is it something else about that page? Can you clarify? Otherwise, if your question has nothing to do with that page, then please elaborate. Either way, I or Brianda can follow up with better responses for you, if it's clearer what you are asking about. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:59, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
@Conman173 I believe your question is about the Find potential article exercise on the dashboard. This exercise is meant to help you explore different topics you're interested in for this project, and help you narrow it down to one that has the scope for improvement and a good list of sources. So yes, you are on the right track, look for 3 - 5 article topics you're interested on working on, gather some sources for each of them, and then you can make a decision at which article topic you want to work on.
You're more likely to find articles that need improvement by looking at those rated C class and below. Instructor Gonzales provided some good references to look through on the timeline for Week 3 for article topic. I hope this cleared things up. Let me know if you have any other questions. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:14, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Query
Hello, Brianda,
You left a User and User talk page message for User:Aina JR but this is not a registered account. This sometimes happens with Wiki Ed when an editor changes their username but I don't see this happening with this editor. Do you expect this account to be created or has this editor dropped the course? Thank you. LizRead!Talk!23:13, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Liz That was a weird one, but I figured it out. fr:Utilisateur:Aina JR was created, and was able to register on the Dashboard. Because the account hasn't been used on another wiki, it presumably doesn't show up on SUL.
The Dashboard assumed this was an account on en:, added the template there, and identified it as a student account that hadn't been greeted yet. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:13, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Brianda. It appears almost certain that this student editor deliberately added a significant amount of hoax content to Wi-jún-jon at 19:47 March 7, 2023. I removed the hoax content today, and added a well-referenced description of his death. I know that the course is over, but this seems to be serious academic misconduct. Should the instructor be informed? By the way, this is being discussed at WP:Teahouse#Conflicting death dates. Thanks for any input that you can provide. Cullen328 (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, Make sure that when you said a message on Wikipedia that you are logged into Wikipedia. Otherwise, it'll use your IP address in your signature rather than your username.
Hi Brianda, found you through Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Maryland, College Park/The Free Internet (FA23). I was just looking at the feedback form the participants are using for peer review. I found the initial prompt, "Has the Lead been updated to reflect the new content added by your peer?", to be perhaps a bit unnecessary. If the new content is significant, this is handled by the other questions already in that section, if it is not significant then perhaps it should not result in a lead adjustment, so the question seems counterproductive. Other than that, I like the questions, although I note "Are the sources thorough?" is a very high standard question that bedevils even the most advanced Wikipedian! Best, CMD (talk) 09:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
(en) Hello Brianda. You should ask Wiki Ed student participants to consistently identify themselves as such on their user page. Kind regards,
(fr) Bonjour Brianda. Vous devriez demander aux étudiants participants à Wiki Ed de se signaler systématiquement comme tels sur leur page d'utilisateur. Amicalement, Arroser (talk) 19:01, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Arroser, Thanks for bringing this up. We had some issues on the Wiki Ed dashboard that we are trying to figure out with this course, which is why they didn't get the usual student editor template box on their user page. We are working on resolving the issue. Feel free to ping me if anything else related to Wiki Ed arises. Thank you. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Mainspace contributions from recent course
Hi Brianda, thanks for all you do for Wiki Ed! I wanted to quickly flag for your attention the project in this course. I organically stumbled on 2 students' mainspace contributions and checked the recent contributions of a third, all from within the last few days. From what I scanned through, only one of the students made edits appropriate for mainspace (and all were malformed). I'm not sure if this indicates a process in the course going awry or if these are just normal beginner edits independent of the course, but just in case I wanted to flag it for your attention! Cheers, Suriname0 (talk) 21:23, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Cg77815, The table of contents is automatically created according to the headers in the article, so don't worry about it. A couple of things as your work on your draft:
Make sure the text has inline citations to reliable sources. Keep in mind reliable sources are independent of the topic, secondary sources with a reputation for fact-checking.
Since the article on the Musical Dome already exists, you'll be adding your edits (with inline citations) to the existing article - not creating a new article.
Hi Brianda, thank you for your feedback last week and I have made changes per your feedback from last week. Would you me able to review it? Thank you. HelloIAMSME (talk) 23:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Student's assignment on one of non-notable topics
As I have discovered, as part of some assignment, one of the students attempted an article on "Sophie Clarke", who has been deemed not notable enough for stand-alone article per AFD discussion. I discussed this with the instructor, but she has yet to reply. What else to do about this? George Ho (talk) 00:44, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
"Speedy deletion" for contents of public declarations
Hi @Plantbella, This is an interesting situation. I think what you can focus on right now is building up the article in other ways like by adding other sections, if you have the reliable sources to do that. Take a look at the articles you shared above, they have sections like historical context, purpose, reception, criticism, etc. I think this article could really benefit from more content before diving into the rights themselves. You can also can add an External links section, with a link to the declaration itself, if readers wish to read it in depth.
As for the list of rights, it's a bit tricky. I think there might be a case to be made that there's no way to add them or engage with the list of rights properly, without either directly copying them or closely paraphrasing. But I feel this is a discussion that needs to happen with the community. Perhaps you can leave a message at the WikiProject Sexology and sexuality's talk page to get others to chime in on how to best represent the list of rights in the article.
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Earlier today, a Wikipedia page was created for Sundown (novel), a text we have been researching for the past three months for our WikiEducation course. My group mates and I have secured rights for the cover image from the University of Oklahoma Press, however, we ran into a few issues.
1. After granting us the rights to Sundown's cover image, the University of Oklahoma Press suggested we "seek additional permissions from the artist's estate." The cover image artist is Mars Biggoose. At the moment, we cannot reach his estate nor do we have information that the estate exists.
2. The Sundown (novel) page lists both Pearson Longman and University of Oklahoma Press as publishers, and we only have rights from one of them.
How would you suggest we move forward with the cover image? Will Wikipedia allow us to place the cover image in the Infobox? Thank you! Peony**23 (talk) 02:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Peony**23, This is a great question. There are limited situations where a non-free image can be used in accordance with fair use policy, and book covers are part of those limited situations. Luckily for us, WikiProject Books has a page that provides guidance on how to upload a book cover. Check it out here, follow their steps/guidance, and you should be able to successfully upload an image for the book cover, using the non-free file upload wizard.
Make sure you provide a link to the publisher's site you downloaded the image from, be sure to use the Non-free book cover template in the licensing field, and fill out the fields appropriately to demonstrate it meets the image criteria for free-use. You can also check out this template on how/what to write up for the non-free rationale.
Give it a shot and let me know how it goes or if you run into any trouble. Looping in @VP2019 - This WikiProject Books/Images link is a helpful reference for other students uploading book cover images currently or for future projects.
Question Regarding the Etruscan Religion Page as a Wiki-Ed Student
Hello Brianda!
Firstly, thank you for your help so far with our Ancient Roman Religion Wikipedia assignment. I was hoping for some guidance on what to do with an issue I have encountered in my journey to making a Wikipedia. I found in the Priests and Officials section of the page, there was no citation for the second paragraph, and it mentioned a term, nethstra that I had not encountered. Due to this (after searching through academic databases), I brought it up to my Professor, Dr. Rask, and she confirmed what I feared, there was no basis for any of that paragraph. I think the best course of action would be to delete this paragraph, but I wanted to run it by you first since I am still new to editing Wikipedia.
Thank you for your time! SaxicolousArtume (talk) 15:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not Brianda but I watch her talk page. Thanks for flagging this interesting issue! You have a few different options here, but a core editing guideline is to be bold: remove the paragraph, and see if another editor objects. If they do object, you can discuss on the article's talk page (Talk:Etruscan religion); this approach to reaching consensus is sometimes called the "BOLD, revert, discuss" cycle. If you're nervous about removing content, you can instead tag it, adding {{Citation needed}} tags after the sentences that aren't supported, and perhaps also sharing your concerns on the talk page.
In this specific case, I would probably just remove the paragraph. I agree that I don't see this term or this gendered split in haruspices mentioned in any obvious sources (e.g. The Religion of the Etruscans). It is mentioned in one book indexed by Google Books, Etruria and the Origins of the Etruscans by Giovanni Caselli (who doesn't seem like an academic in the field to me), which states:
[The Etruscan religion] was largely adopted by the heterogeneous people who formed the nucleus of Rome, where both the state and the individual did not take any initiative without first consulting the gods through an intermediary — male (haruspex) or female (nethsra) - who had the ability to “read the signs” of the gods. The most common method was to read these signs in the liver of a sacrificed sheep, practicing a “divination” of Mesopotamian origin.
We might worry that this is citogenesis, since that book was released in 2022 and the statement was introduced to the Wikipedia article in 2007 [1] by User:Botteville, who is still an active editor! (By the way, I used the WikiBlame tool to find the edit that first included the word nethsra.) This gets us to another exciting aspect of Wikipedia editing, consulting others who may have expert knowledge. User:Botteville, any insight into this claim? Any idea what source you pulled this from? It seems quite likely to me that this reflected historical consensus in 2007 but not so in more recent scholarship, but it could also be based on a translation from sources not yet in English. Suriname0 (talk) 18:17, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I have been off for a few weeks tending to health. Let's get a couple of things right to begin with. If you are talking about the writing, I did not "pull" it from anywhere. I wrote it, as I recall, although I cannot guarantee that no one else changed it. I remember the part about the initiative and the gods. I doubt I was responsible for the "heterogeneous." But why do you not pay attention to what you are saying to me? Did you think I am fool enough not to notice? You're accusing me of copying a published text and putting it in WP under my own name. This is not the first time this has happened. The reason is that the publishing industry thinks it is perfectly OK to copy material from WP and publish it as original. If you do not know that by now perhaps you should apply for another WP position. The last time this happened I had split away my text to form another article. Someone copied a whole page I had written and claimed I had copied them. Eventually the original article of mine was discovered with the earliest version of the text and I heard no more about it. If this passage above has appeared in a more recent published book the author is a low-down text-stealing crook trying to make money off of people like me in particular and WP in general. Academics are notorious for that, especially when they have to give a speech or a lecture in less time than they have to do it themselves. Most administrators on WP know that. I hope this satisfies your investigation. I doubt you will find any earlier text than mine. Where I might have read those conclusions I now have no idea. They look pretty standard to me. Have your student writer do a little more work. Try Internet Archive and some of the journal archives. We have access to JSTOR, so try that. If you are going to do something, do it right. Ciao, good luck. Botteville (talk) 01:48, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
I need help with finding my and Meghan's sandbox. It seems to have been deleted somehow? We know it existed because we submitted a screen shot to our learning managmenet system a few weeks ago. However, now we don't know where to find it!
This is the name of the sandbox we are looking for:
User:Kmblng/Big Five personality traits
and culture
Hi there @Kmblng, I checked out your user contributions and I don't see you working on a sandbox page. Remember you have to press the blue publish button to save your work, otherwise it doesn't get saved. Below are links to your pages.
Help with my NCCU page as it was deleted before i could even make the adjustments requested
Hi Brianda,
The morning after I submitted my sandbox draft page (Loretta H. Cheeks) it was deleted and I didn't have a chance to contest the deletion nor make the suggested updates.
You visited our class with Dr. Grady and noted you would be of assistance. Is this something you're able to assist me with?
both of which list you as the wiki-expert. This is not the first time I've flagged this sort of problem in Wiki-Ed projects. Please coordinate them so students are not as likely to interefere with each other. Thanks. DMacks (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
File:Photograph of Dalton Wells Historical Marker.jpg
Hi Brianda. File:Photograph of Dalton Wells Historical Marker.jpg was uploaded locally to Wikipedia (and also to Wikipedia Commons under the same name as c:File:Photograph of Dalton Wells Historical Marker.jpg) by one of the students in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Brigham_Young_University/The_United_States_Since_1877_-_Section_002_(Fall_2023), but it has been nominated for deletion. It's hard to blame the student here since the Flickr photo does appear to be acceptably license; the problem, however, is with the Flickr account holder since the photo they took is a WP:Derivative work (i.e. a photo of someone else's copyrighted work) and they can't claim copyright ownership over what they've photographed. This kind of thing can be complicated when assessing for Wikipedia's purposes, but the copyright status of the noticeboard itself needs to be considered in addition to the copyright status of the photo. I'm not sure if the Wiki Ed modules cover this kind of thing, but that's why the file was nominated for deletion by Explicit. Perhaps you could explain this to the uploader and advise them to keep it in mind when looking for other photos to upload. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:08, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
@Marchjuly I took a look at the deletion discussion and it goes layers deep, beyond what our training modules cover. It's an interesting case and helpful moving forward, if this kind of image comes up again. Thanks for the ping and for explaining the context. I'll let the student editor and their instructor know. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:26, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Need help moving sandbox article to actual page
Hey I am having an issue where I am not able to move my sandbox article to the actual article page. The move button that should be on the right side is not there. Any help would be greatly appreciated! ZacL13 (talk) 17:15, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi there @ZacL13, Check out this video on adding information to an existing article.
Be careful to not plop all of your content in one edit. Make sure to add your work in small chunk edits, and don't copy over existing text that is sourced. If you are editing existing text, make sure your new information is sourced and is an improvement over what is there in terms of content and sources. Give it a try and let me know if you run into issues. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:38, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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