User talk:AminMDMA

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 05:52, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Amin! I just wanted to apologize for the problem with your course page. It should be all set and working now at Education Program:University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)/Expanding WikiProject Medicine (April 2014). The way that the course pages handle changes of course name and title is very buggy, and we are going to disable it altogether soon. In short, you successfully changed the name of your course, and the message about it having been deleted is not correct (since it really just got moved), so when you tried to undelete it you got an error because the ID number for your course was actually still active. Thanks for uncovering a new bug for us!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 16:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please complete the

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
2. With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button ( or ) located above the edit window.

This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 06:03, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question --AminMDMA 23:03, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.

Thank you! Sent by: xaosflux 20:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Rishi Desai, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See
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• It appears to be an unambiguous
  section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing
  .

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Praxidicae (talk) 18:46, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article

reliable source

that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see

An article you recently created,

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Liance was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject

independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid

when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Rishi Desai and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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-Liance^{talk/contribs} 00:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AminMDMA! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! -Liancetalk/contribs 00:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, editing somewhere like Draft:Sandbox would have been better. Or somewhere in your userspace ... Graham87 05:08, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AminMDMA. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:31, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that you are the instructor for students in

Hi Crossroads thank you for your communication. As you may already know, these are medical students enrolled in a course at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. This 2021-22 academic year is the first year we are attempting to "scale up" the historical Wikipedia-editing course from an elective-only course (n = 5 - 37 students) to the ENTIRE enrolled cohort (n = 160). Of course this kind of expansion will inevitably result in several students not quite knowing the Wikipedia community well (yet). They will learn. And I also acknowledge that the UCSF community likes to be at the forefront of social change by encouraging healthcare to advance human inclusion. A parallel process is seen with the use of pronouns. First there was merely biological constructs. Then the term "preferred pronouns." Then "pronouns." Sadly the peer-reviewed health professional literature moves at a slower pace than human social constructs (and at times slower than Wikipedia moves). I agree we need to encourage our students to be citing secondary sources and using terminology that is valid, peer-reviewed, and citable. And also that together we Wikipedians can advance the dissemination of the evolution of the human process of understanding the limits of both science, and Wikipedia! Respectfully submitted. AminMDMA (talk) 05:12, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like we agree that students should be using the terminology that the sources use, even though that means saying "woman" or "man". Regarding being "at the forefront of social change", it is not permitted for students to use Wikipedia for the purpose of catalyzing social change or as the vanguard of language-reform. Wikipedia has a policy titled

WP:Right great wrongs

.

Since so many of the students did this, can you please clarify for me if they were told by an instructor or other authority to use this new terminology? And who told them if so? Or was it really spontaneous that most students who edited sex-specific topics did this? If it was spontaneous, it would be much appreciated if future classes were told to use the terms found in the sources regardless of their feelings about them. That would save other editors a lot of time. Thank you. Crossroads ^-talk- 04:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've encountered someone claiming to be a student of an Amin Azzam, and saying that we should search Wikipedia to find out who that person is. The Wikipedia page Amin Azzam led me to your talk page. Is this a class project that you're currently running? Belbury (talk) 09:08, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out about this. Indeed this is a course, but it is not sponsored by Wiki Education. Instead, it is through the wmflabs dashboard, since it is at a medical school in India. You can find the details of this course at the dashboard here:

Though I have certainly reviewed Wikipedia’s core pillars and discussed sandbox editing with them, I will remind enrolled students about civil discourse between Wikipedians and the need to ensure they cite sources properly, paraphrase sufficiently when writing, etc. In reading your dialogue with this student, I think there was some misunderstanding with written English since that is not this student’s native tongue. In any case it is always important to dialogue respectfully, and I appreciate that about your post. Thanks again. AminMDMA (talk) 16:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Please do apply clear {{Educational assignment}} templates to articles that you've instructed your students to edit, there's been some confusion with null templates being added and responses then blanked by a student of yours at Talk:Breast cancer. Belbury (talk) 16:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello sir, hope you remember me...

As we were working on our wikiproject assignment there has come a huge problem now, till now only edits were removed but recently many of the accounts of my batchmates have been globally blocked for indefinite time

And the reason and the problems interelated to these matter can be viewed here. Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 16:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have written to Arjayay at that same place explaining that you are all medical students engaged in this task as an assignment in school. I'm sorry this is happening. I suspect it is because there are so many of you contributing all of a sudden and many are using the same med school textbook as your source. I hope that my writing will help these Wikipedians to unblock your accounts so you can continue contributing. In the meantime you can continue writing in your sandbox(es) so that whenever you're unblocked you can copy over all your improvements. Please share this with your batchmates. AminMDMA (talk) 16:04, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]