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School Projects change
Recently you wrote "I'm teaching pre-freshman Korean students and having them write on a topic of their choice". You wrote that articles students were writing were being quickly deleted. I believe there are a couple of ways to prevent this from happening in future. The simple english wiki does want people to write useful articles.
1. Create a school project: a description, and a name for the project, at Wikipedia:Schools/Projects. This should include all the affected pages, and ideally a wikipedia editor (I'm happy to do that) who can be contacted if things go wrong. There should be a point of contact for the project in case of any problems that may come up. This is usually one of the teachers.
2. Tag project pages: add this tag to the top of students pages: {{classproject| your project name}},
3. Use the sand box: have the students make their own sandbox, there are instructions on this page Wikipedia:User page. There is also a link at the bottom of every edit page. This is a User page where users can write their article and work on it until it is ready to be put onto the wiki. Wiki administrators do not normally delete things from a user's sandbox.
4. Use the edit summary: below the edit window is a place to write in a summary - this is a brief description of what you have edited, for example "Corrected spelling", or "added new section on ice cream". This helps other editors know what is happening on the page.
If you look at the Deletion policy you will find that there are reasons why pages get "quickly deleted" (Normal deletion process takes a week). Most of the quick deletions are "complete nonsense pages", "attack pages" (X is gay), and pages where notability (is the article important enough to be included) is hard to judge.
Other pages that may be helpful:
This Wikipedia needs articles; If they are properly formatted and give interesting (verifiable) information, there is no reason to delete the articles at all. --Peterdownunder (talk) 22:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)