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Hi. This is my first time posting here. When reviewing AfC submissions, I noticed a similar pattern between the drafts I linked above. All of them seemed to be essays about similar topics, which felt like a education assignment of some kind. Following a discussion at
WP:AFCHD, I decided to come here and ask. What can be done about these drafts? The users don't have
WikiEd notices on their talk pages, so I'm not sure if this is really an assignment. Thanks. '''[[
User:CanonNi]]''' (
talk •
contribs) 07:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I have posted the following notice where participants, if participants they be, can see it: "If this is an education project please ask your tutor to contact the
Wiki Education Foundation for guidance" 🇺🇦
FiddleTimtrentFaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 07:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks! I replied on the AFCHD thread -- not much that can be done unless we can find the instructor. Hopefully if they are students they pass along your message! --
LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (
talk) 15:32, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I reviewed another,
User:Place_of_AI_in_Information_Retrieval/sandbox. I tagged it for
G12. I have also tagged the one remaining copy for G12. Obvious copyvios should be tagged for
G12. Even if no one else on the Internet takes copyright seriously, Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. DoubleGrazing says that these are all by different users, seemingly, at least. I think that a
sockpuppet report may be in order. They may be one troll.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 23:58, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply
They were all confirmed by Checkuser and blocked. This was not a class project but some sort of misconduct. These were stupid copies, copies of web pages created by copying and pasting, losing the formatting. We see some of these stupid copies at
MFD, found after having been sitting in a user page or user sandbox page of a user who came several years ago, created an account, left the
coprolite, and departed. We don't know why they do this, but the stupid copies get deleted seven days after being nominated for deletion. This was a slightly different subspecies of a species of misconduct.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 16:47, 30 May 2024 (UTC)reply
It would be lovely to help these students, the more so if their grades depend on it 🇺🇦
FiddleTimtrentFaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 16:38, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Medical drafts
In the past couple of hours there's been a flurry of drafts, probably some sort of (pre-med? medical sciences?) student assignment. So far I've spotted at least:
Hi there! Yes I'm the instructor. The topics for these articles came from Wikipedia's own list of
requested articles for medicine. We consult one of the Wiki contacts in Hong Kong. What I'm learning is that some of the topics on the list of requested articles may already exist but use other terminology. This may explain why some of the articles the students draft don't make it to the main space. I'd be grateful for tips for how to navigate this better. Happy for any advice and guidance.
G.J.ThomThom (
talk) 18:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)reply