User talk:JMBauer

Welcome to Wikipedia! Good luck with your course. If you have any questions or need assistance, please let me or another Wikipedia Ambassador know. The best place to ask questions and get feedback, for both you and your students, will be your course talk page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Telecommunication Policy Analysis (Johannes Bauer). There's nothing on it yet, but you can start the page by clicking the red link here or by using the "Discussion" link on the course page. Cheers!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:09, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hi Professor Bauer, I hope your class is going well so far! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 00:36, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Barnstar

		Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar
		For diving into Wikipedia and giving students constructive feedback on their first edits, I award Professor Bauer the Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar. Thanks for your dedication! Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 19:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mentoring one of your students

Hi, I'm Banaticus and as an Online Ambassador, I've been asked to mentor one of your students, Oceanski. I don't want to supplant you in your role as professor -- I'm just here to help, if you'd like. I proactively left a message on Oceanski's page asking them if they'd like to step through my User:Banaticus/Adoption pages (if they're unfamiliar with Wikipedia) and am planning on periodically checking up on them and possibly offering suggestions. If you'd like any further help, contact me on my user talk page or put a {{help me}} template up on your own user talk page and someone will be along to help you. :) Banaticus (talk) 01:57, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oceanski's article, Broadband universal service, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Broadband universal service because it's primarily a fork of National Broadband Plan (United States). I agree, they are currently pretty similar. Normally I'd just reccomend that the creator of the second article fold it into the first article. However, I understand that Oceanski only gets credit if he creates a "new" article? Do you have advice for Oceanski on how the two articles could be differentiated? Banaticus (talk) 21:27, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for leaving the message on my talk page. You probably want to post at the deletion discussion page. The way these work is that once someone has nominated an article for deletion, discussions about that deletion should take place on that deletion discussion page. The way I phrased that sounds a little stilted, but basically it's an attempt to keep things aboveboard so that there's transparency in whatever happens, so that interested parties aren't left out of any discussions that result. Leaving a message on the talk pages of interested parties informing them that the discussion is taking place is a voluntary courtesy (which people usually do). Usually, that would be the article creator or people who have substantially contributed to the article or something. RHaworth wouldn't have any reason to connect you with the article and Oceanski probably wouldn't think to involve you, so I thought I'd let you know about the discussion that was taking place. :) Banaticus (talk) 05:50, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]