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Speedy deletion of "Children's Use of Information"

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Thank you. RA0808 ^talk _contribs 17:27, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved it to User:DrKimWriter/sandbox. Please note the small matter of spurious caps. More importantly, student projects often fail because the submissions are too much original research / essays. I recommend you to get your students improving existing articles rather than writing essays. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:59, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am doing the assignment in connection with the American Psychological Society's Wikipedia Initiative. My students have already edited other pages, but as they are 3rd year doctoral level students, there's no reason to suspect that they can't do this. In fact, its a skill that I would like them to develop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrKimWriter (talk • contribs)

No reason to suspect that they can't do what? Improve existing articles or create new articles which conform to our policies? Third year PhD students - I would say that gives every reason to suspect that they will wish to submit original research! — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The students will start, this week, to write one section of the draft page "Children's Use of Information". Once I have approved their sections, I would like to release it to go live. DrKimWriter (talk) 18:45, 20 March 2014 (UTC)DrKimWriter[reply]

Nomination of Children's use of information for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Children's use of information is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Children's use of information until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Flat Out let's discuss it 22:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have discussed the issue of the page being 'essay-like' with the students, and we all agree that the page does read like an essay. We are currently in the process of editing the page to make it read more like an encyclopedia entry. We may also need to change the title. I do believe that the topic itself (How children use information) is notable, but the topic could be better titled. DrKimWriter (talk) 22:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Fylbecarous: We are addressing these issues, several of which we also identified. Can you be specific about the issue with the citation system? Thanks DrKimWriter (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)