Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/Humboldt State University/Intro to Native American Studies S2 (Spring 2016)

Who is the course teacher or adviser here? Are you keeping an eye on your students' edits? People have had to warn at least one of your students for inserting copyvios, tangents, and improper sourcing, which has also created unappreciated cleanup work for editors here. I am asking you to please make sure they use talk pages and their sandboxes, rather than just adding anything they find on google to stable, established articles. Reading the articles thoroughly before attempting to edit them is also a basic requirement that I am concerned is not always being met. Best, - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 00:16, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Is it possible for students to be a little more well rounded in accuracy and respect before jumping into editing? Some rather offensive and appropriative material is being posted. Not only is it frustrating for other editors to have to clean up, it's rather insulting and providing inaccurate information is problematic and in no way beneficial to the general public.Indigenous girl (talk) 17:59, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

As an example, I just left this comment on one of your students' sandbox talk pages:

Responding here as you haven't put this into the actual article. Be very careful how you title sources. Use the actual title of the article, page, or other publication you link to. Calling this link, Native American Healing is a pretty serious misrepresentation of the source as well as of Native cultures.[1] - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 21:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

@CorbieVreccan and Indigenous girl: Thanks for posting this note here. The instructor probably won't see this, so if something comes up the best thing to do is to ping me and I will do my best to communicate the concerns and suggestions for improvement to both the students and the professor. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:13, 16 March 2016 (UTC)