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Happy editing! Mackensen (talk) 12:37, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Removal of Maintenance Tags

Hi, would you please be so kind to explain why you removed immediately - without any further explanation - the maintenance tags I placed at Giovanna da Montefeltro? CommanderWaterford (talk) 15:47, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi @CommanderWaterford, you added those tags as I was revising a student's submission in a way that responded to all the maintenance tags you had added. Given that this is the first time this happens, can you point me to the policies regarding replies to maintenance tags as they are addressed? I think that all the points you raised have been addressed LauraIngalli (talk) 15:55, 1 April 2021 (UTC).

You can sure remove the maintenance tags if the issues were addressed but please explain your removal each and every time shortly within the Edit Summary. Thank you. CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Dante's women

Ciao, Laura, and thanks for encouraging your students to create articles on the women in Dante's Divine Comedy. In your recent article, you draw on figures from Women in Red. We would certainly welcome you and your students as members of our project. It's wonderful to see what an impact you have been able to make through WikiEdu. Keep up the good work!--Ipigott (talk) 17:45, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Ipigott! I'm certainly interested in joining and will definitely let my future students know that they can, too! Thank you for your work, as well! --LauraIngalli (talk) 21:51, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

LauraIngalli: That's good news. We look forward to your own registration via the main Women in Red page and hope to be able to welcome some of your students too. We may be able to encourage some of them to continue contributing to Wikipedia after the end of their course. It seems such a pity that after developing their editing skills, so many WikiEdu students fail to make further use of them. May I also congratulate you on organizing such an effective Wikipedia course in connection with the Divine Comedy.--Ipigott (talk) 08:34, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Cool project! One trick you are missing is featuring those articles on main page through a WP:DYK process. Please let me know if you'd like help with this! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:13, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Piotrus, sounds like a great opportunity! I have never done this, so any advice or guidance is super welcome. Thank you for proposing this idea and for offering to help me!LauraIngalli (talk) 13:30, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

I recommend this handy script: User:SD0001/DYK-helper, it creates a pop up window that's automates the process, no need to deal with code etc. Of course, the students (and/or you) would need to be able to figure out how to install this script, although the 'Installation' section is not too bad. Let me know if you need further assistance! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:36, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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Reference problems

I have Divine Comedy and related articles on my watchlist, and I've noticed that some of your students are having problems with formatting references properly. (Small wonder, since doing so is unfamiliar territory to most non-Wikipedians). You may want to stress the importance of page numbers in refs, and also make it clear that for a volume of articles by different hands the proper template is {{Cite book}} (see "Citing a chapter in a book with different authors for different chapters and an editor" in that template's documentation), not {{Cite journal}}. If your students want advice about particular situations, they are certainly welcome to ask for assistance at Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia:Help desk. Cleaning up after people who insert botched refs can be a pain in the neck; and although your class is about the Divine Comedy rather than Wikipedia editing, it's best to avoid irritating the regular editors. Deor (talk) 20:38, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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