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You have 50k edits, so please do not this as patronising but you should know how to create a redirect. If you don't want to change the redlink at the WikiEd page, make it yourself?
Hi
User:Primefac I was confused by the unfounded allegation that you made in your in your role as
Oversighter, that I had used content in this article without crediting the contributions made by graduate students in their jointly-written
sandbox page created for their 2018 Winter term graduate level course on hydrocarbons.
I understand your concern to ensure that all users are credited for their contributions to articles. However, the only edits taken from the students' sandbox article that were added to this article
Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada, were added by one of the students himself in a series of good faith edits made on 8 March 2019. Perhaps because he was not aware of protocol, in his edit summaries visible on the history page of this article he did not mention his involvement with the group or where the content came from.
To clarify my point and my concern, I have not personally used any of the content or references from the students' sandbox article in my contributions—either in my original sandbox article or this main space article—as you imply here.
This request, and its reply, have nothing to do with me being an OSer. You asked a question using {{help me}}, and I responded as an editor who responds to these sorts of requests. It was also not an allegation, I simply could not figure out why someone with your tenure would need to ask someone else to create a redirect, and so my only logical conclusion was that I was potentially misreading the question and you were actually asking for a
history merge. Clearly that is not case, as you have clarified.
Primefac (
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06:35, 12 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Western University's graduate student's Orphan Well Group's sandbox article
The creation of a sandbox article by Western University graduate students for their Winter 2018 graduate course, from January to April—
Responsible Development of Low-Permeability Hydrocarbon Resources was an excellent initiative on the part of Western University. There were six teams of graduate students, working with a Wikipedia expert, who created or improved Wikipedia articles. One of the six groups was the Orphan Well Group. One student editor User:Milimcalgary created the
sandbox article on 25 January 2018. By 20 April—when the winter term ended— User:Milimcalgary, along with two other grad students, Mush105 and Damabero, had written a lengthy, technical article with 7 sections citing 33 reliable sources. The article reflected the academic nature of their assignment. Their completed project was temporarily created in the main Wikipedia space as
Orphan Wells in Alberta but it was moved 19 April 2018 to
Draft:Orphan wells in Alberta as it was "not ready for main article space yet" as it contained lots of WP:OR, etc.
Oceanflynn (
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22:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Also perhaps some of the numbers in the lead could be removed - for example it is a bit confusing mentioning 10,000 seven thousand and 170,000
Chidgk1 (
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11:00, 20 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Hi
User:Chidgk1. I have trimmed the lead down quite a bit. I am still working on the rest of the article which I know is too detailed. This will take awhile. Shall I remove the template or will you? Thanks for the feedback.
Oceanflynn (
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02:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)reply
I put it back in because unfortunately the lead has got too long again - for example I doubt numbers from the 1980s should be in the lead
Chidgk1 (
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14:45, 3 March 2023 (UTC)reply
Some were mis-spelling of sources, one was a stray curly brace, and one was weird – probably some sort of strange non-breaking space since all I did to fix it was remove all the spaces around the template parameters and add them back in again... All fixed now, though.
Wham2001 (
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20:52, 25 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Yes, I think so – there have been quite a few edits in the meantime! I've fixed those three (it was fairly clear which source was meant in each case). Best,
Wham2001 (
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18:12, 28 February 2023 (UTC)reply
@
Oceanflynn:, in
this edit you added a second Webber (2023) source, which created a bunch of harv/sfn multiple-target errors. I have edited the references section to turn the two sources into Weber (2023a) and Weber (2023b); could you go through the article and change all the Webber (2023) sfns to point to the correct source? Thanks,
Wham2001 (
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20:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)reply