Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/University of Southern Indiana/Introduction to Mass Communication (Spring 2016)
Assignments for Existing Articles
[edit]Please do not give students the assignment of developing, via AFC, articles about people who are already the subjects of articles. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Obviously incomplete draft being submitted to AFC
[edit]Adam (Wiki Ed) Please see User:Crtew/Devi Prasad Dhital and intervene as needed, such submissions are a waste of AFC reviewers' and the student editor's time. It also does nothing to endear the Wiki Edu Programme to AFC reviewers - we actually prefer not to deal with student projects at all. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:20, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- Pinging User:Crtew - please assist your students not to submit "half-baked" drafts to AFC. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:23, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Dodger67. We try not to steer students toward AfC; student sandboxes are loaded w/ a draft template which doesn't include links to the draft namespace, our training materials don't mention or encourage use of AfC. But if you look on Wikipedia for advice as a lot of students and instructors do you could end up moving the submission to the draft space anyway. I'm sorry about this and I'll take a look at the draft. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- I've already told someone from AFC that the students who are doing that are not following directions. I repeatedly told them not to do this. In fact, I left a comment in early offenders' articles and moved the articles back to user space. Also this is why I'm a proponent of having a version of the template without a submit button. Not everyone needs one. That's the technical solution. I can only squawk so much. Crtew (talk) 16:03, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- They are actually welcome to work in draft-space, but please don't submit to AFC before the draft is as complete as possible. AFC is not for "halfway done" reviews, we work with essentially finished articles only. I hear you on the issue of having submit buttons in sandboxes by default, I've objected to it on a number of occasions. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:32, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- I've already told someone from AFC that the students who are doing that are not following directions. I repeatedly told them not to do this. In fact, I left a comment in early offenders' articles and moved the articles back to user space. Also this is why I'm a proponent of having a version of the template without a submit button. Not everyone needs one. That's the technical solution. I can only squawk so much. Crtew (talk) 16:03, 4 May 2016 (UTC)