Talk:University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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An apology to anyone else watching the page: I'm a librarian at UTC, and often use this entry during my information evaluation sessions. Without question, students will deface the page as soon as I show them the edit feature. I've tried to make a good faith effort to revert all of their vandalism, but I'm sure that others will have to help out. Sorry!--Jgriffey 18:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to press ahead with a "Notable Alumni" section, and brief notes about the buildings (excluding the greek houses, since they technically considered to be off campus.) --ZekeMacNeil 16:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Again: using the page as an example in my Information Evaluation class...it never fails that students go nuts on the edits. Apologize for the all the reverts. -- Jgriffey 20:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Professors, Please Explain Wikiquette

There is no end to the amount of vandalism this page endures every time a professor mentions it in class. Please, for the love of all that is Wiki, either take the time to explain proper etiquette for using Wikipedia, lie and tell them you have to be registered to use it, or just stop using it as an example. There are plenty of other Wiki-based sites out there you can use as an example.

My apologies to any professor that does take these preventative measures. --Avery W. Krouse 20:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

There are many other wiki sites....none of which has either the impact or scope of wikipedia. I would guess that 99% of the vandalism on the page happens when we discuss the entry in the library during a presentation on information literacy. I plan on continuing to use the page though, as it is the best example of an important wiki site. As a matter of fact, it is an important teaching tool to show them how edits happen, and that one should verify sources. - Jgriffey 16:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Please don't lie to students. As a fellow student here at UT - Chattanooga I feel it is inappropriate to make it a policy to lie, even to avoid "vandalism." PLEASE Note: that when page edits are done initially for informational & instructional purposes it is not "vandalism." See the VANDALISM article for more info. Additionally even though it is acceptable to justify lying in cases of National Security and other vital moral gray areas... etc, this type of misinformation in NOT productive. Briananthis 05:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I removed the last vandalism done to this page in February, and it sure looked like vandelsim to be. Giving my opinion in the edit summary, or even warning the offending editor, is not by any interpretation lying. If nonsense or nonsensical changes are made to a page, it will be presumed to be vandalism, unless some labels it as otherwise. If serious instruction is going on, then the edits should be labeled as such, and reverted by the same editors in a timely fashion (within a few minutes in my opinion).

I do not see how changing the university's name in the info box to "Brennan Burke University" along with other similar nonsense, cannot be considered vandalism. In this case the time between the last vandal edit and my reversion was 15 minutes, time enough for instruction to take place. I'm not accusing you of making those edits, but those are the only recent edits I see that were reverted as vandalism.

Every edit page clearly states that if you wish to make tests, use the Sandbox. The best thing for a instructor to do would be to copy a page to a sandbox, and make edits and changes there. But PLEASE, if you don't want changes to APPEAR to be vandalism, then label them as "Instructional", and be prompt in removing the changes. Otherwise, such nonsense as stated above will be labeled as VANDALISM, and I assure you that warnings will be issued next time should such nonsense be left on this page again. Leaving nonsense on a page for other readers to find when they are looking for legitimate information is NOT productive, and WILL NOT be tolerated per WIki policy on VANDALISM. And that's no LIE! - BillCJ 06:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Obviously if you are going to make tests you should use the sandbox, however when new people are being introduced to the community here; it takes a while before they learn all the rules. Additionally if someone is trying to show someone how to use Wikipedia 15 minutes is NOT too long to use for instructional purposes. There should not be any thing on the page that you would need during this time, and if there was you could revert back to the old settings, however you have NO LIFE if you check this page every 15 minutes. No it was not me who did the: "Brennan Burke University" along with other similar nonsense changes. In reference to the "lies" comment... An instructor should NOT tell someone that they ONLY can make changes when registered. That was all that comment was about. I do however value you insight along with everyone else's, and mean nothing derogatory to you personally in my comments on this talk page.

Briananthis 16:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for missing the above comments on telling people to lie about having the register. As such, I missed the context of your comments, and I'm sorry for that. As to watching the page every 15 minutes, that's not what happens. I use the Watchlist, which lists the changes in every article I have edited, unless I remove it from the list. I just happened to refresh the list within 15 minutes of the edit being made, and caught it. Remember, one of the major principles on Wikipedia: If you don't want your edits edited, don't make them! This applies to everyone, even educators, especially if such edits aren't labled as educational. - BillCJ 17:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)