It does work well on Wikiversity, I've created pages like this, there has never been a problem with them. What is a problem is when a user creates a mainspace page that is not what might be called a mainspace topic.
Exactly where the line is drawn often is not clear. Generaly, though, my position has been that if a university might offer a course with the name of our mainspace page, the name is appropriate. If not, if it might be the title of a particular lecture in a course, or an accessory resource for a course, then it is best as a subpage.
Wikibooks is organized with mainspace pages being book titles and chapters being subpages.
Student problems would never be a "course." That are something that is part of course activity.
We can create a stub course if we want to
organize student problems under a course that has not yet been created. It is common that we will link to a relevant Wikipedia article, it's often the first thing I do when I create a WV resource. We could also link to any similarly relevant "Another Website." I.e., Planet Math.
This is not "advertising" Planet Math. It would be a link to a specific page that might overlap the Wikipedia article. In education, there is no harm in redundancy, if those are the same, and redundancy also can compensate for errors and omissions. As always with external links, choices will be made based on usefulness to the reader, as a matter of editorial consensus.
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From: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] rebooting the discussion of solved problem pages on Wikiversity
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <
abdlomax@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This kind of exercise should probably not be a mainspace page. I would suggest a subpage under an appropriate math resource, for "Problems." The problem would be given in a section on that page, with, then, a link to a subpage "Solution by Abd" -- if I were the author. That would be an attributed page. It could contain errors. How to handle that can vary, but the identification of error is a critical part of the educational process. I'd be happy to assist.
BTW this is exactly the kind of thing we have going on Another
Website. If that model can work well on WV that would be great.