CivCodex

Welcome!

Hello, CivCodex, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

You seem to have insight into biomedical ethics. If you need help with anything then let me know - I would like to see articles in that field developed. Also, add more citations to your content additions. A citation after every sentence is ideal! Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy

Though I see that you were, at least to an extent, involved with the problems associated with your class, I wanted to applaud you for your willingness to step up and apologize, the first and only person from the class to do so. This shows a level of maturity that we often do not see in our editors, but one that is very important. I hope that you will consider improving our articles in the future by adding well-cited information, because your temperament is what we need in our community. Should you ever need any help, I am always available at my talk page. Thanks again for apologizing to Colin; I'm sure he'll respond to you soon, but I wanted to personally thank you for admitting your mistake, as that's the first step to correcting it. Happy editing. Sincerest regards, Go Phightins! 02:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi -- I saw your note on Colin's talk page. Thank you very much for that. I don't think anybody here thinks that the students at U of Toronto are to blame for the negative outcomes of Steve Joordens' class; it was an experiment that went wrong, and that I wish Joordens would acknowledge went wrong. No student is responsible for any more than their own edits. It's good of you to step forward and say you're sorry it happened.

If you decide you'd like to edit Wikipedia more, I'd be glad to help you and give you feedback on what you're doing -- just leave a note on my talk page. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:18, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I want to add my thanks and appreciation for your comments on my talk page. Well it was an experiment that went badly wrong in 2011. That it is still being repeated in 2013 is very frustrating, disappointing and irresponsible but not your fault. Negotiations with the prof are out of my hands so I can't comment on what may happen there or what sanctions might be imposed if they break down.

I repeat what others have said that you are all very welcome on Wikipedia. I hope decide to stick around and edit as a volunteer. IMO those student assignments that work well involve students in the final years of their study (or postgrad) and small classes led and closely supervised by a teacher to 'gets' Wikipedia. I don't see the "megaclass" being a suitable class for Wikipedia assignments. Regards, Colin°^Talk 07:17, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

CivCodex, I found your edit because I watch hundreds of research ethics articles, and it is unfortunate that you have not yet come to understand what constitutes copyright violation, but I really appreciate the respect you have for Wikipedia and the intent you showed to develop the article you edited. I also have been watching the U of T class edit Wikipedia and when I found your edit, I did not know you were a part of that. Colin caught that you must have been with that class and reverted what you did.

I hope that you had a good experience with Wikipedia and through this experience, you have come to better understand how it works. There are a lot of people volunteering their time to do quality control here and while we have time to work with anybody, it is problematic for lots of people to drop in, do something inappropriate, then leave forever without staying to get feedback. This place is a community and we work with each other. If you ever decide to edit Wikipedia more then I also would support you. Message me anytime. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:39, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Greetings. I also saw your comment. Thanks. You might be interested in becoming an ambassador one day. I've helped a few classrooms run assignments more smoothly myself. WP:AFSE is an information page I've helped draft. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk) 17:54, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again

Hello CivCodex, yet another note of thanks for your kind and thoughtful comment. If someone could reach out to your fellow students and invite them to doublecheck and correct their own work, that would make a great difference. All they need to do is read Wikipedia:Copy-paste and Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Avoiding plagiarism, and fix their own contributions. That would go a very long way towards changing the story arc about this class's work.

( Other wikipedians have checked the contributions of a small # of students in your class, but most have not been identified, and I suspect most of the plagiarism/copyvios have not yet been found. Right now we are trying to figure out what to do about the rest. )

Regards, – SJ + 18:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)