Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-30/Western Civ blog
AfD[edit]
Well, one of them is on AfD (link). You can see the post of the girl who wrote it. Her internal though processes for using Wikipedia were interesting... although a little odd. You will notice her first edits have his date of birth but, she felt it was important to remove that because of identity theft. And, she used a personal interview. I can't see how this wouldn't be deleted but, it's at least interesting. It's always odd to hear 'outsiders' talk about Wikipedia process because they always make weird assumptions. I had a professor talk to me about his article which was being vandalized and he conceived my status as a long time editor could make the vandalism magically stop. Hope this interests someone. Oh, and here is Mills on a podcast about Wikipedia. The part about Wikipedia is halfway in. gren グレン 08:13, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Student articles[edit]
From the blog, the articles appear to be:
- Richard Connell
- George Dewey Moore Jr. (AfD mentioned above)
- Princess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (merged with Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia)
- Block 10
- The Sacred Chest (created at User:Dmaclin)
- Father Arseny
- Dwarfs in ancient Rome (a section added to Dwarf, twice; first removed by an IP user as not relevant to the article, then removed by Buddhipriya as poorly sourced; also added to Gladiator#Dwarf_gladiators and removed by Skysmith as "irrelevant")
- The Ancient Greek Hoplite (merged with Hoplite)
- Henry S. Graves
- David and Catherine Birnie
and a few more that are hard to identify (one has something to do with the the lifecycle of a pencil...) -- ALoan (Talk) 16:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
One of the new posts identifies this one:
There may be more posts that trickle in.--ragesoss 04:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
I didn't do a very good job: here are a few more:
- Indian termination policy
- Hermann of Luxemburg (created at User:Jscolese; merged with Herman of Salm)
- Hugh Mercer's apothecary
- Zelma Watson George
- The Fencing Master
- Juvénal Uwilingiyimana
- Wage-Labor and Capital
- Battle of Stalingrad (?)
And another is something to do with martial arts. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
And a few more:
-- ALoan (Talk) 10:30, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
There are a few common factors here:
- several articles were created in the wrong place, or duplicate existing content. These problems all seem to have been resolved here, but a particular problem seems to be that several of the articles were created in user space, on the user page or the user talk page. How common is this? How many editors only make contributions to their user space which are actually articles in the wrong place? Are they spottted and moved into article space, or are there lots of articles left in user space?
- All of them seem to have had problems with images, which have universally been tagged as having an incorrect copyright status and then removed. This is clearly a difficult area for new contributors to deal with. Is there anything here we can do to make it easier?
- Almost all have been improved by other editors wikifying, adding categories, etc - well done us :)
But well done, students, for finding so many interesting areas to add your contributions. There are plenty more redlinks left - see Wikipedia:Requested articles. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Few more: