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your course

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)

You have not completed the student training.

Please complete the student training. If you have already gone through it, be sure to click the button at the end to record that you finished it. --AminMDMA 06:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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

MfD nomination of User:AminMDMA/Western group on educational affairs

User:AminMDMA/Western group on educational affairs, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AminMDMA/Western group on educational affairs and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AminMDMA/Western group on educational affairs during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 03:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated

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Speedy deletion nomination of Rishi Desai

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Proposed deletion of Rishi Desai

The article Rishi Desai has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Rishi Desai moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Rishi Desai, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Praxidicae (talk) 23:17, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rishi Desai (April 8)

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: 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.

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-Liance^{talk/contribs} 00:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

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)

July 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment with the page Penicillin. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use your sandbox instead, as someone could see your edit before you revert it. Thank you. Graham87 05:08, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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

Your draft article, Draft:Rishi Desai

Hello, AminMDMA. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Rishi Desai".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

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

Student editing

I understand that you are the instructor for students in this class. Quite a few of them have been rewriting their articles to remove any reference to men or women, adding phrases like "people with uteruses" and "people with testes", despite the fact that these articles' sources speak only of "men" or "women" and are not about transgender people at all. They should not be doing this in this or any other class and should instead be following the sources. This is per WP:V and WP:DUE. This is also per near-unanimous community consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 161#Gender-neutral language in human sex-specific articles, where the closure states, As outlined below, the terminology in articles, especially medical articles, is dependent upon the support of reliable sources and it is expected that editors would use the same terminology presented in said sources. WP:GNL makes a similar point. Finally, such phrases are confusing to people who do not speak English well - a large proportion of our readers - who may not know what those technical anatomical terms mean. Thank you. Crossroads ^-talk- 03:49, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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)

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:NOTADVOCACY. It is not to be used to 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)

Unannounced student project?

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)

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)

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)

About global account blocking

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)

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)

Rome talk - minor edits

Hi, I enjoyed your talk for the Rome ILAE conference. Is there a permanent link to the video? The only thing I'd say is that personally I would not have marked those edits as "minor". Wikipedia generally has a very low bar on what is regarded as "minor", which often throws editors used to writing journalism etc. Personally I only use it for really basic typos ("the the" for example). Best Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 09:27, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate my edits were not "merely minor." You can find the permanent link to the video here:

https://ucsf.box.com/s/szyjzbyk41mkvi9rwltfpj2d3fhbegcl AminMDMA (talk) 13:21, 11 September 2024 (UTC)