User talk:U.bhoskins

Just letting you know that editing with two accounts is not permitted unless you disclose that they are operated by the same person. Based on what you are doing, it seems highly likely that you are also User:KRitterbush. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:51, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I am not User:KRitterbush, I have been tasked to complete the World of Dinosaur pages. U.bhoskins (discuss • contribs) 17:11, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * What does "tasked" mean? Are you being paid to do this? If so, that's also a policy violation. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:28, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * No. I'm just helping to fill out the pages so that people can access them sooner rather than later. I'm not getting paid. U.bhoskins (discuss • contribs) 06:15, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi QuiteUnusual, we are academics trying to create an online text book to use to teach our class at the University of Utah. We are not doing this to make money - quite the opposite. Rather than working with a publishing company to sell the knowledge, the goal is to make it publicly available as openly as possible. This avoids the students in my class needing to purchase a textbook. I originally posted over at fandom.com out of desperation during the early stages of the covid pandemic. But that platform is lousy with advertisements, so I'm trying to build a more robust and mature version of the online text book over here via the wiki system. Where the text is similar or the same, this is because I wrote it, and I am extending the open license - I prefer to publish everything CC-BY-NC but since I have to do share-alike to publish via wiki I am accepting this. Joining me in this effort are students at the public flagship University of Utah. We are uploading original material to wikimedia (photographs; custom vector and raster illustrations; 3D models), and creating pages of text and images here via this wikibook. Thank you for your patience and reminders of the rules and practices- we are learning fast but still very new at this. We have a HUGE volume of material that I have personally created from scratch explicitly to teach this course (increasingly online) over the last year. It's completely original and I am releasing it via CC. So thank you for helping us get this right. I am a tenure-track professor in the department of Geology & Geophysics, and the class enrolls hundreds of students each semester. I am trying to simultaneously create a textbook sufficient for this class, AND create a public resource written in plain language that explains and organizes the core concepts along with images, figures, etc. that we've created. While comprehensive info about everything Dinosaurs already exists over at wikipedia, it is far too nuanced and esoteric for an introductory college course for non-science majors. KRitterbush (discuss • contribs) 14:37, 20 September 2021 (UTC)