Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/University of Southern Indiana/Introduction to Mass Communication (Spring 2016)
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Dodger67 in topic Obviously incomplete draft being submitted to AFC
Assignments for Existing Articles
editPlease 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
editAdam (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)