Talk:1999 Vietnamese floods

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• http://palestinercs.org/Downloads/report2001.pdf#page=102
  • In 1999 Vietnamese floods on 2011-05-25 06:43:59, Socket Error: 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'
  • In 1999 Vietnamese floods on 2011-06-25 12:35:31, Socket Error: 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'

--JeffGBot (talk) 12:35, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Course work

If you are editing this article as part of course work, please have your professor or teacher contact the Wiki Education dashboard for advice and guidance.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

University of Edinburgh assignment - Global Health Challenges Pg Online

Hi @Ponyo, @Viewmont Viking and others - please be aware that recent edits to this article have been made by student editors on the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Challenges Pg Online course programme where as part of their studies and research into man-made and natural disasters around the world, the Masters students are invited to work as part of a group online project to contribute 1,000-1,500 words to a stub article about a natural or man-made disaster that is currently short and could definitely be improved and expanded with verifiable information from reliable published secondary sources. The recent flurry of activity on this article is a result of a group of students all working towards each contributing their section towards the end of project deadline and the goal of contributing 1,000-1,500 words in their group. I attach a Dashboard link to their project and the list of student editors is available here also which includes @Runshan Liu, @Mcaughtrie @Alex J Underwood, @Sacamet and others. Alex has created their userpage the way I would have advised the students to create their userpages but some attending the Wikipedia training workshop asynchronously so may have missed this step. I have now asked them all to make sure they all create their userpages like User:Alex J Underwood to aid transparency and let any reviewing editors know they are new editors but 'good actors'. I taught them how to add internal links and external links but it appears I will need to reinforce the need to avoid adding external links to the main body of the article. I will ensure this is the case next time but please do offer the students constructive feedback where it makes sense to do so as they are just learning the ropes.

In order to avoid any such future misunderstandings, I will ask the course leaders to furnish with me a list of articles the groups will be working on so I can flag this on WikiProject talk pages ahead of time. I'll also make the point about avoiding 'edit reverts'/'edit warring' though I know this was done in good faith on their part and can vouch that they were just undertaking an assignment to help improve this article and Wikipedia in general. With that in mind, please can you unblock/unbar @Runshan Liu if there edit behaviour was deemed disruptive as it was undoubtedly just a misunderstanding more than deliberate spamming. Also, please can the 1999 Vietnam flood page be removed from semi-protected status so that the final student can add their section as the assignment is due to finish this week I believe. Any further comments , please let me know as happy to improve things to avoid any issues for either side in any future iterations to ensure everyone has a positive outcome. Stinglehammer (talk) 18:34, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation, Stinglehammer, it's much appreciated. Note that none of the students were blocked (in the Wikipedia sense), though my protection of 1999 Vietnamese floods may have temporarily disallowed brand new editors with less than 10 edits from editing the article. It would be helpful if, for future projects, students understood that they need to respond to concerns raised by other editors on their user talk pages, and that if they remain uncommunicative and continue to restore disputed edits, their account may end up blocked. Identifying themselves as part of a classroom project, as you note they usually do, is also helpful.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:22, 4 December 2023 (UTC)