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Hi all. I was going through the copy edit tag and came across some articles that seem to have been created by students and then subsequently maintained almost exclusively by students (it's not 100%, but the edits I found that were made by non-student editors seemed to be fairly minor or technical). Three that I looked at are Sexuality in music videos, Misogyny in rap music, and Hip-hop feminism. They're not bad articles, but they do seem like they could be candidates for a merger of some kind, or at least a tone and style overhaul. But I'm new enough that I'm not totally comfortable proposing any kind of merger, especially so if these are articles that seem particularly popular for college courses. Nothing on the various WikiEd pages I checked indicated that there were specific articles that the courses you guys work with go to on a regular basis, and I know that student editors aren't supposed to get any special type of consideration for preserving their edits, but I'm a little confused about how to approach these articles knowing that they're tinkered with sporadically and might get re-created regardless. Zojomars (talk) 16:04, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think you should feel free to propose any kind of merge or other action that you would like. I can point you to WP:NOTTA, which basically says that you need not treat student editors any differently than other editors. If you want to suggest a merge while not being unilaterally responsible for it, the best way to do it is spelled out at WP:MERGEINIT, which explains how to propose it on the article talk page and then see what the consensus of other editors is. Very often, student editors disappear after the end of the semester, and they won't even respond to what you say, so it will just be you and other (non-student) editors. And alternatively, you are absolutely free to WP:BEBOLD and revise the pages for tone etc. But please don't feel like you are obligated to extend any special consideration to class projects. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:25, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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That extension published many records of class participation on English Wikipedia. I had the idea that the extension would be turned off, but I did not realize that the published records would be deleted. I am writing to ask if and how I could request undeletion of these records.
Education Program:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Expanding Wikiproject Medicine (2014 Spring)
Education Program:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Wikiproject Medicine (Winter 2015)
These records contained lists of students who participated in the education program and the articles they edited. Project reports like this contain meta:Learning and Evaluation/Global metrics which the Wikimedia Foundation, universities, and other organizations use to demonstrate program efficacy.
Icahn School of Medicine has some people who are evaluating the history of interest in their Wikipedia program and drafting a narrative of their engagement. If I were to make a request for restoring the text from the education extension, then where should I direct that? Again - I do not want the functionality of the tool, but the text on the page did report wiki account names of participants, when they edited, and what they edited.
@Bluerasberry: as far as I know, all of that was added to archives (phab:T174802) that you could access, there is also a long outstanding request (phab:T188407) TO "Document clear method for users to access historical data from the education extension". There is no on-wiki "restore" page option for pages in the special education program namespaces. For pages in existing namespaces (e.g. Wikipedia:) onwiki undeletes can be requested at WP:REFUND. Most of the dumps should be publicly accessible here so I suggest you look there first. — xaosfluxTalk18:42, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]