Talk:Peacekeeping

Wiki Education assignment: Foundations of Clinical Trauma Psychology Fall Quarter2022

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 September 2022 and 1 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Samantha Mitchell (article contribs).

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Wiki Education assignment: Sex, Power and International Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2022 and 16 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lad04, 4xxxx4, Kaw226, ZN2736151433 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by 4xxxx4 (talk) 20:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Women's Participation in Peacekeeping

As part of a course assignment, my students are attempting to create a new article entitled "Women's Participation in Peacekeeping", and linking to it from the "women's participation in peacekeeping" section on this page. Their work is being immediately and repeatedly taken down every time they post something. This remains a work in progress and they are actively trying to improve it; I ask all editors to be constructive with their criticism rather than discouraging. Please insert comments to alert them to issues rather than deleting their work altogether. Thank you. Mam1220 (talk) 15:21, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

@Mam1220: Thanks for your note, but that is not how Wikipedia works. All contributions have to meet Wikipedia's standards at the time of addition, regardless of the motivations for adding them, including university course assignments. The students' additions were reviewed as they were added, but all were left in place in the article until the additions were seemingly complete to ascertain if the early poor quality additions would be fixed in later ones. The final result was almost completely off-topic and so poorly written in terms of English grammar and sentence structure as to be largely incomprehensible and so, as a result, was removed (just once, when it was complete, not repeatably and not immediately, but weeks later). Since the additions were so incomprehensible, I requested in my edit summary that future additions be proposed here on the talk page for discussion and editing before being inserted into the article, but no one has done so to date.

I had approached other editors to assist in looking over the student additions after they were complete, but they indicated it was beyond fixing and they declined to take it on, as irredeemable. I tried to edit it myself to remove the off-topic portions and fix the English, but found that there was nothing substantive left, hence the reversion to previous text.

Thank you also for alerting me to the recent creation of Women's Participation in Peacekeeping which had just been moved from a user sandbox to article mainspace about an hour ago. It was good that I caught it before it was deleted and that I was able to move it to Draft:Women's Participation in Peacekeeping. At this point it is not even an encyclopedia article; it reads like a point-form outline to begin writing one. Obviously much more work is needed as a draft before it can be considered for mainspace.

If you are instructing this course I would suggest that your students need better oversight before adding text to Wikipedia, as their ability to write on topic, or write comprehensibly seems to be lacking. Please see Wikipedia:Competence is required. It might be a better idea if you personally review and approve all text and references to be inserted, prior to them bringing it to the encyclopedia. That said, any additions to the encyclopedia will always be subject to review, editing, redaction or deletion by any editor here if found to not be useful, accurate, on-topic or comprehensible. - Ahunt (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

They are learning, they have never edited Wikipedia before, and they are not native English speakers. Please be encouraging. Mam1220 (talk) 20:59, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Their lack of facility in English is apparent. I would suggest that it would be much easier for them to work on the language version of Wikipedia in their primary language of fluency, rather than English. I hope you will take my suggestion and vet their text proposals prior to posting, too. - Ahunt (talk) 21:03, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

"One source section" template on "Theoretical basis for peacekeeping"

Hello,

I am writing to notify other editors that I've placed the one source section template on the 'theoretical basis for peacekeeping' section.

The entire section is referencing one paper by Virginia Page Fortna, to whom the article is surely indebted to, yet cannot solely rely on for a topic of this scope. It also restates many of the paper's conclusions without attribution. Cadenrock1 (talk) 16:30, 27 August 2024 (UTC)