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Usernames

Wikipedia strongly advises against using real names or names which can be traced to an individual personally - WP:REALNAME is the guidance. Please stop pressuring your students to reveal their real names online.

Ping - Helaine, Ian, new school year and the problem starts again. Cabayi (talk) 17:52, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

...and a second student on the same course. Cabayi (talk) 17:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

@Cabayi This is actually the instructor's account for teaching the class, so their real identity is easy enough to trace. This was a Spring 2022 class, but I'm sure @Lcoffmanpstcc will see this before the class runs again, so it's a good reminder for the future. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:54, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

@Ian (Wiki Ed) I see this and I understand. Thank you. I was not logged in to WikiEdu earlier so I could not see their names as I wasn't in instructor mode so I wasn't sure how to grade those who have participated. Honest mistake. @Cabayi no need to be quite so condescending. Some of us are still learning. Lcoffmanpstcc (talk) 20:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Ian, the two requests were received yesterday. This isn't a throwback to the spring.

Lcoffmanpstcc, as a learner I'd happily show you the greatest indulgence. The trouble is you're an instructor, using your position & authority as an instructor (and the fear that non-compliance will result in failing your course) to require your students to expose their PII in public on Wikipedia. That is not a learner error. Cabayi (talk) 08:16, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Apologies @Cabayi. The Dashboard didn't update the "instructor" template on @Lcoffmanpstcc's userpage, so I incorrectly assumed they weren't teaching this term. My mistake for not double-checking. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:40, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

@Cabayi I do not require this as part of the project in my course. I simply was asking students to clarify based on my own ignorance of not being logged into WikiEdu dashboard at the time. This has been corrected and I have reached out to students and told them that they do not need to change their usernames. It may take a day or two to for some of them to read this information as they are all asynchronous online students involved in this project. Some students already used portions of their name as their username for this project but it was never required by me that they do so. 2600:1700:55C0:DD30:3C04:E58B:9B43:3A4D (talk) 15:50, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Lcoffmanpstcc. Cabayi (talk) 16:14, 13 September 2022 (UTC)