Treeluver123

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Hello, Treeluver123, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:04, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

moving pages

Hi. I see you are in a course supervised by Bcndz5. I am unfamiliar with what you've already been told, but neither you nor your fellow students should move your user sandbox entries into the main namespace without careful review from an instructor or WikiEd staff. I totally understand the emotional payoff of knowing that a page is "published" but Wikipedia has many quality control mechanisms to cull unsatisfactory content. Getting review while still in a subpage gives you an opportunity to learn. Moving into a standalone article will likely result in quick deletion, killing all the joy you felt upon publication. I don't think you want the added attention that publication brings. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:15, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

@Chris troutman Hi, thanks for your feedback. I wonder if you could perhaps indicate on the talk page of the article some of the reasons you think it is not ready for mainspace? It would be very useful for the students to get feedback. We do go through a review process in class but neither the students, nor me as instructor, are Wikipedia experts, that's the whole point. Having articles criticized and rejected from mainspace is all part of the process, for WikiEd students as it is for any other newbies, but hopefully the feedback received in the process helps people progress. Bcndz5 (talk) 07:20, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@Bcndz5: I've put my comments in the talk page, as requested. I'm sorry WikiEd has done such a poor job guiding your efforts. A decade ago I was one of Wikipedia's Campus Ambassadors who visited classrooms to provide in-person instruction as well as online help during the semester. WikiEd cut the program so it leaves instructors like you without guidance and your students then have a bad time on wiki and our volunteer community sours on the program. Chris Troutman (talk) 13:50, 5 April 2024 (UTC)