User talk:TüBioc

Thanks for your great contributions to the EGF domain article! Alexbateman (talk) 16:09, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Sorry

I've blocked this account due to the statement on this account's userpage:"TüBioc is a group of biochemistry bachelor and master students".

Any given Wikipedia account is only allowed to be used by one single person. This is because of the possibility that one of the people sharing in an account may misbehave: if such a situation were to arise, would the innocent users be subjected to disciplinary measures along with the guilty, or would the guilty user be exempt from disciplinary measures in order to spare the innocent?

In order to avoid this quandary, all shared accounts are blocked, regardless of whether misbehavior has occurred. Please note that, to my knowledge, none of the 7(?) students sharing the TuBioc account have misbehaved; you are all welcome to create new accounts and continue editing Wikipedia, either as part of your academic project or otherwise. But these must be individual accounts.

I apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused, and look forward to reading more of your work in the future. DS (talk) 15:44, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

TüBio group

Hi DS, you just closed our account. We work as a team, so it only made sense to create a group. The text and figures that we add are not made by a single person but drafted by 2-3 biochemistry students and reviewed by a lecturer of the faculty. I doubt that the majority of single user accounts have this kind of quality check. We also have 1 responsible person (me), so it would be clear who is accountable for any norm deviations.

How do you suggest we organize? We need a page to keep track of our projects. And it would more honestly reflect authorship if joint work is not uploaded by a single user who would then falsely appear to have done it all. How should we adapt our working procedure to what, in our special case, appears like unjust treatment (account closure after quality edits).

Best regards, — J.S.talk 19:19, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Hello, J.S., I can help you out here. There are solutions to your workflow.

We cannot allow role accounts on Wikimedia projects because of copyright ownership. When any single individual makes an edit, they are responsible for the licensing of use and reuse. While all content is free to reuse, modify, and share even for commercial use, the individual retains copyright and responsibility for their edit. It's a legal thing.

I suggest that your group each register an account individually. From there they set up userpage where they can put helpful links to project work. Every editor can create pages in their userspace by creating something like User:Keegan/Butterfly. Just a / and the subpage name. If you are organizing this project, I suggest using your userspace for this, where you can outline goals, timelines, and whatnot, and students can sign to them (using their accounts and typing ~~~~ will produce a signature and timestamp) as well as leave a link to the "diff" of the edit that they have made so you can see each individuals progress. This will massively help you to demand accountability from the students for actually performing the edits that they said they have made, since every account's contributions are publicly available to view.

By all means contact me on my talk page for further assistance, or you can email me directly from Wikipedia. Keegan (talk) 03:54, 26 October 2012 (UTC)