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Course instructor rights

Per this comment, I've gone ahead and given you "course instructor" rights. If you have any queries, please feel free to be in touch. Good luck with the class! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:06, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Education Program

Professor,

My name is Chris Troutman. I'm a Junior and a History major at Loyola Marymount University. I've also recently became a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador. I became aware of your class this semester only a couple days ago. If there's still utility for this semester I can come out to UCLA, give a short presentation to your students, answer any questions that come up, and most importantly oversee your students' progress online as they interact with the Wikipedia community. Feel free to contact me on my talk page at any time. Please let me know what support you need to keep Wikipedia in your classroom in future semesters. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:25, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

FYI: Message posted to class pages

Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia.

My name is Tim Davenport, I write as "Carrite" at Wikipedia (WP), and I spend a good part of my time working on radical politics and labor history-type stuff. I'm consequently very interested in seeing Dr. Higbie's class contributions be successful in providing quality, lasting content to the encyclopedia. I have rounded up a number of colleagues at WP who have agreed to help answer any questions from the class as they arise.

If you have any questions about (a) Wikipedia policy doctrine with respect to Phrasing Neutrality, "Notability," Sourcing, etc. or (b) Wikipedia's somewhat idiosyncratic "markup code" that needs to be written in the edit windows to generate the text seen on page, please do not hesitate to ask me or any one of us. Similarly, in the unlikely event that you run into another user who behaves inexplicably or aggressively towards your contributions, do not hesitate to contact me or any one of us. We are here to help.

Wikipedia User Name	User's WP Homepage	User's Talk Page link	Comments
Carrite	Tim's Homepage	Tim's Messages	Direct email addie: MutantPop@aol.com.
Rjensen	Dr. Jensen's WP Homepage	Dr. Jensen's Messages	Professional historian and veteran Wikipedian.
Cullen328	Jim's WP Homepage	Jim's Messages	Veteran WP content creator.
Orangemike	Mike's WP Homepage	Mike's Messages	Administrator at WP with labor history knowledge.
Malik Shabazz	Malik's WP Homepage	Malik's Messages	Administrator at WP with labor history knowledge.

Good luck with your work! —Tim Davenport /// Corvallis, OR /// MutantPop@aol.com /// Carrite (talk) 18:43, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

I will chime in to add that Tim did this with my full consent and enthusiastic permission. I am a historian by training and a labor movement activist (president of my AFSCME local) with roots in the Milwaukee labor/socialist tradition. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:50, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

A problem

Hi Toby--

Looks like two people were simultaneously and independently working on the 1992 Cali Drywall Strike, which caused a page patroller to merge the articles. I've subsequently tweaked the style a little bit. I'm going to bed now, will drop them a line tomorrow, but thought you should know about it. Akazmer1 and Paigerey are the two people involved. Carrite (talk) 08:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Tim: Thanks, the students have been in touch they are now jointly editing the page. Toby Higbie (talk) 21:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Greetings, I am the patroller that combined the articles. Tim suggested that a send you a message. One was a cut and paste of an article published in Labor Research Review, which I overwrote with the content from the other editor's article. I am happy to help if you have any questions or there is any other way I can be of assistance; kind regards! VQuakr (talk) 03:31, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the input VQuakr. This is good information. Let me intervene again with the students. Toby Higbie (talk) 04:00, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Multiple references

Hallo again Toby. Out of curiosity I had a look at the course page and wondered how the other students were getting on with their editing. I looked at William Green (labor leader) and tidied up the references a bit, leaving a note on the editor's page to comment on what I'd done. Then randomly looked at Willy Pogany: good thorough citing of refs, but the same ref repeated in full multiple times. Could you perhaps remind the students about references?

1. If you're citing the same thing more than once, give the reference a name and then cite it by name, so that it appears once only in the list of references (saves a lot of typing)
2. Please expand references, don't just give the bare URL: we need to have enough information to see what the reference actually is, so that if the link goes dead we have a chance of finding the source again in future. The various citation templates make it easier to format references.

Good luck with it all! PamD 10:18, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

PS Just looked at Alice Henry: again, tidied up multiple refs (including 3 variations on one theme). But good thorough citing of sources, which is the more important aspect. PamD 10:33, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Milo Reno

Professor,

There's a developing draft article about Milo Reno you might be interested in. I'm going to take stewardship of the article in the near term to prevent it from being deleted as an abandoned draft. Feel free to improve it if you like. Chris Troutman (talk) 06:12, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Coordination

Professor, I see that you've returned and started a new class. I'd really like to get on your schedule to coordinate your efforts with the Education Program. Chris Troutman (talk) 06:38, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Meetups

Professor, good to meet you today. Thanks so much for connecting me with Nafpaktitism. I had a very productive visit with her. I encourage you and your students to add yourselves to the LA Wikipedians list. This list is used to notify Wikipedians of meetups in the area. It is often useful to discuss editing with Wikipedians in person, not to mention putting faces to user names.

I look forward to seeing your students sign-up at your course page, as I'll still be watching through the semester. You can always reach me on my talk page if you have any questions. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:51, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

California Labor School

Hallo, This article is on my watchlist and I noticed that one of your students, Tadeocucla has elected to work on it for your course. Today it's been edited by a brand new editor, Cici0608 whose idea of editing is to paste in an entirely new poorly formatted article (though with some references) below the existing content. It may be coincidence, but I'm alerting you just in case it isn't. PamD 09:48, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Here's a talk page message I left for one of your students in June 2013. PamD 10:02, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

I looked at the list of students and topics to find a case where they'd edited an existing article: see User_talk:Isaiahrobles#Laborers.27_International_Union_of_North_America. (He was just unlucky enough to be the first student I found who seemed to have done anything outside a sandbox). No edit summaries, unexplained removal of useful content, and a misplaced apostrophe - but at least no major damage to the article. No talk page banner either. PamD 10:22, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

@PamD: Sorry for the difficulty. I'm the campus ambassador for this class. I've reached out to Dr. Higbie about this problem. Feel free to contact me if you see any other problems with this class. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:57, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: @PamD: I will be in touch with this student. All students have been told, many times, not to do this. Toby Higbie (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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