User talk:Bizabeth

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Welcome!

Hello, Bizabeth, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:53, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

August 2019: Student editor, please get adequate supervision

Hello, Bizabeth. I have just spent an hour fixing the mess you made at the article Trichuris trichiura. Apparently, English is not your primary language, and apparently your instructor is not a microbiologist; you have asserted that Trichuris trichiura is a protozoa. Maybe you cannot tell the word "protozoa" from "parasite", but they are not the same thing, and Wikipedia is much the worse for your erroneous contributions. Further, you did not understand how to cite sources properly, and I had to look up, read and re-cite one of them, and remove the "Carolyn Pomeroy" citations completely, as a PhD student's name, alone, is rarely enough for a citation on Wikipedia or elsewhere.

My hope is that your class is finished and that you will be leaving Wikipedia editing to those who better understand how it works. Sad to say, from what I can see, your class taught you very little.--Quisqualis (talk) 23:13, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Quisqualis, Hi, not sure how I missed this as I typically have all student user pages watchlisted. I did want to come back to this, though:

• I'm sorry you had to invest your time to fix these errors. In the future, please ping the Wikipedia Expert associated with their course. We want to put as little a strain on unpaid volunteers as possible, and I would have been more than happy to fix the student errors.
• Your response to this very new editor was not helpful. Whether your intention or not, it came across as callous and bite-y. Please assume good faith in the future.

Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2019 (UTC)