Wilk2695

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Speedy deletion nomination of Beyond Facebook

A tag has been placed on Beyond Facebook requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Beyond Facebook, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Wikipedia:Your first article; you might also consider using the Article Wizard. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:33, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Working with live Wikipedia articles

I suggest that you start with a topic equally alien to all your students (i.e., not your university or even state, but something more random; maybe even start by clicking the "Random article" link next to the edit window here). Then examine the current article on that topic, see if there are tags like {{refimprove}} or {{fact}} that indicate things which need improving about that article. Then follow the course of the edits, the reactions of other editors working on that article, etc. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:53, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

If their edits are sound, why on Earth would they be reverted? Tell the students that this is not Facebook, this is a reference work; they should take their edits as seriously as they would take writing a paper for a course whose instructor does care about spelling, punctuation and grammar, as well as properly sourcing a citation and the like. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:06, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

And if they are experimenting with mark-up language, they can use Wikipedia:Sandbox, or even User:Wilk2695/Sandbox this one I just created in your userspace. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I find that a lot of articles here need better sourcing; and the effort to find reliable information on, say, an Albanian nationalist of the 19th century, is good training in the uses of on- and off-line reference materials. (Hey, what do I know, I'm a historian by training and know the archivists at the main local public library by name.) --Orange Mike | Talk 21:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Class projects

Wikipedia:Class projects - please give this a read. Best of luck with your class! :) - Sinneed 21:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)