Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia/Information Competence, September 2012/Logistic and Transport Management

Advice

It looks like you're involved in a school project: if that's the case, I'd be glad to unblock you, but I strongly suggest that you reconsider your approach to editing: Wikipedia doesn't permit promotional material. There are lots of potential articles that could be written about Namibia: historical sites, culture, people, places, institutions, etc. The hotel, though isn't appropriate as a subject. Acroterion (talk) 15:19, 9 October 2012 (UTC) [originally posted to User talk:Teonilla.211046981]

• I strongly endorse the above - there must be hundreds of non-commercial subjects you can write about.

I also advise you to keep your drafts in one place only, preferably [[User:Username/sandbox]]. In the worst case, I found the same text in six different places. Multiple copies will only confuse you. I have seen so many case of this, I fear that specific advice may have been given out that you should keep multiple titles - is this the case? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:58, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

No, that is not the case. I assume it results from one student successfully posting some text to a page, and other students that are behind just duplicating the page. --Pgallert (talk) 16:30, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Talk

One reason, indeed in my view the most important reason, you are doing this project is to learn about collaborative editing. This means that you must be willing to enter into discussions about your work. When someone leaves a message on your user_talk page - respond! — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:16, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

The official reason for the Wikipedia module to be part of a media literacy course at our institution is to make students aware that today much of officially looking content is indeed produced by non-experts. Number one learning objective is thus to become more critical, also towards Wikipedia. Roger Haworth's advice still stands, of course. --Pgallert (talk) 16:30, 11 October 2012 (UTC)