User talk:Umbereenbmirza

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Umbereenbmirza, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:12, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock request[edit]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Umbereenbmirza (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Requesting an IP address block exemption for this account because this is a student editing in Turkey via a VPN. I can vouch for her. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

3 month IPBE. Can be renewed if ongoing need after that time. Just Chilling (talk) 01:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This student is part of the Wiki Education program and needs to be able to edit in order to really get the most out of the assignment. Umbereen is new, but very sincere and will not take part in any deliberate disruption. She wants to edit the article on the Turkish language and as she's editing from inside the country, Umbereen can provide sourcing that may not be available to English speaking editors or to people living outside of the country. The IP in question is 31.3.224.0/19. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Side note, I've contacted Slakr, but he's only on sporadically. I am not familiar with IP unblocks of this nature and I feel that it would be a bit of a COI to set a flag myself, so I'm not comfortable with doing this myself. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:33, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Although, if no one has an issue with me doing something like this in the future, I am willing to handle IP block exemptions as they occur. (It would pretty much always be on an individual basis rather than with an entire class.) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:31, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to being a trusted user, the other test for an IPBE is that of necessity. If she is editing language articles rather than on Turkish politics is there any reason why she needs to use a VPN? Just Chilling (talk) 21:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Just Chilling: With classes the student typically focuses on one article rather than make general edits, so during the class she will most likely just edit the page on Turkish language - I'm not sure if she's going to edit anything else, although she may. She hasn't really expressed an interest in editing anything Turkish related other than the language. We have quite a few students who get excited and want to edit more than one article. As far as the VPN goes, Umbereen uses it because earlier this year Turkey blocked all access to Wikipedia, so in order to see the site and Dashboard she has to use a VPN. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:14, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review: Umbereen, I saw you didn't have a peer reviewer so I quickly signed up. First, be sure to use the sandbox in the future for edits, then transfer them over when they are ready. It's very difficult sorting through each of the changes. This should not distract me from the fact you have really jumped in and focused on the task at hand.

I saw you made a number of additions to each of the sections, plenty of clarifications, among others. First, please be sure to cite any words with any sources, such as the compounds section. There are many examples given but no sources. There are no claims or sections that appeared biased towards any position. Each of the sections added seemed natural and a good addition to the article. I really liked the section added for the whistling language. It was quite interesting but unfortunately not well cited. The only citation looked to be a news article which was short and high level. The Harvard library (Hollis) will offer several scholarly publications with an in depth dive on the topic. The next natural course of action is to add examples (3 short whistles = x, 2 long = y). Is it related in any way to Morse code? Keep up the good work! Bob Frasure (talk) 19:48, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]