Good evening, Professor Christie. My name is Lixxx235, and I'm a Wikipedia editor and an Online Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program. ( userpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lixxx235)

It's come to my attention (through a student's request for help via Wikipedia's live chat) that you have given your students assignments relating to editing Wikipedia. While the Wikipedia Education Program fully supports such assignments, and endorses a number of courses at various universities around the world, according to one of your students, an assignment you've given seems to have students confused and is causing submissions in violation of some Wikipedia policies and wasting volunteer and student time. For example, this https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fuel_controlled_fires_STN.pdf&oldid=145780124 is an entry one of your students tried to get help on from our live help chat. This submission does not meet Wikipedia guidelines such as notability policies, policies requiring verifiability of material, and policies requiring a neutral point of view (NPOV) to be kept. In addition, it was not in Wikipedia's standard format.

We'd love to get in touch with you. Please reply back to lixxx235wikipedia@gmail.com and education@lists.wikimedia.org to see how we can help you develop good assignments for editing Wikipedia and how we can resolve some issues with your current assignment.

All the best,

Lixxx235 English Wikipedia