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"Collaborative grading"

Hi, Sminthopsis84 and I are having a discussion over at User talk:Nihiltres § Sorry, had to revert your changes (as well as mine). Since your students' work is "live" in the article namespace, we've done some editing to improve the articles. Sminthopsis84 reverted some of our changes to Viburnum dilatatum in particular, and I restored them, on the basis that your course doesn't "own" the articles. I appreciate that you're willing to engage with the Wikipedia community as part of your teaching, but part of that is the expectation of working collaboratively. In some cases, Sminthopsis84, myself, or other editors might improve on (or revert!) changes made by students, but we're concerned that our actions could unfairly help (in the case of improvements) or harm (in the case of reversions) your students' grades. This is particularly relevant if our attention to particular articles wasn't evenly applied. We could wait a few days (for the assignment to be "complete") before wading in to aggressively improve the weakest parts, but I'd prefer to start that sooner. Do you have a strong opinion here? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 15:29, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate the message. I had hoped and counseled the students not to "overwrite" short stubs or more developed existing articles but to move pieces of their writing over bit by bit, but they quickly figured out that you can use the Move function from their respective Sandboxes, and alas many of them took the path of least resistance (for them). Of course please make edits or revert their changes as you or anyone in the community see's fit at any time. I asked them to send me a word document with their article that I am using for grading, please don't feel you or anyone else needs to wait for me to grade the live wikipedia pages. Thank you for your consideration.Isoetid (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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Hi! I am looking at your list for the current class. Looks like a species is misspelled. In the list, for student Pman43829, in the assigned column is a red Illiamna coreli. It is red because there is no English Wikipedia article by that name. Additionally, I checked several reliable databases, and there is no plant genus Illiamna. I believe this red link is a double misspelling for Iliamna corei, an article which does exist. Note the species epithet is corei, not coreli. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 22:40, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll make sure it is edited correctly. Isoetid (talk) 20:40, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

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