I just started to see new things about Wikipedia's donation

Hi everyone, i just made an article in wikipedia earlier, i translated it, saved in my draft then did more editing and then I created a new title to put the source code of the article i translated, i saw that in a video the wikipedia editors send to us, but now in the english page it doesnt show that i translated it to my language, how can i add my article to the english page translation?

Article that i was translating is named "Ada (programming language)" and the language is albanian (shqip)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshiter_(verbe) Lmao

Context: since I need to cite all authors/editors of any article I used I need to go through all edited versions and add all users as authors according to my teacher

if u feel like participating and know bat facts do your thing and edit and review bat facts on Wikipedia and you'll probably be in my paper if it is before midnight tonight (submission date)

Hi, I just have a question about the train station template. If i use it on my sandbox page, is there a way to include train services that dont exist. I want to create a alternate train station which includes more services, but everytime i try and put a line that isnt real, it just comes up with an error. Is there a way to fix this?

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(link to the program) For those unfamiliar, college students participating in the program are tasked by instructors to create and edit articles. The idea of connecting college students Wikipedia to ensure that it is "more representative, accurate, and complete" sounds really good on paper. However, as a page patroller and draft reviewer who gets to view many of the products of this program either just as they've been created or before they hit the article namespace, I feel that the program is generally a net negative to the site and ends up unintentionally breaking the site's own policies.

The articles that are created through this program generally end up being essays (which are prohibited from the site) instead of encyclopedic entries, and they'll typically cover a topic that's redundant, hyper-specific, and non-notable all at once. Not a real example, just a hyperbole, but "Bananas and their impact on French culture" doesn't sound too far-fetched from what I've seen out of articles deleted through AFD or those that have been sent back to the draftspace.

Then, there are also regular edits (not page creations) that are still unsuitable for inclusion on Wikipedia per the no essays policy being added to loosely-related articles. What prompted me to make this post was finding a very oddly unencyclopedic pair of sections in an article about a single car body style discussing the effects on the environment that cars in general produce, which is a topic that is already covered on more relevant articles, including the article for cars themselves.

Why the results of this program end up being so surprisingly bad in my speculation are because the people being tasked to make these contributions are essayists, not Wikipedia editors. College students are smart people who are generally really good at researching and writing essays, but they usually aren't fit for writing encyclopedic entries because that is typically not part of what they do. Likewise, I am a Wikipedia editor and am good at editing Wikipedia, but I would be a terrible candidate for writing a professional essay because that's not what I do. Of course, there are people who just so happen to be in college and just so happen are good at editing Wikipedia, but the Wiki Education Foundation tasks people are good at writing essays only with the expectation that they'll write proper encyclopedic articles on a platform they've likely never contributed to before. In that same vein, being a good Formula 1 driver does not make you a good World Rally Cross Driver. Being a good guitar player does not make you a good violin player. Filmmakers should probably not produce video games and a pastry chef should probably not be behind a hibachi.

(TL;DR: Essayists should not write Wikipedia articles because people who are good at one thing should not be tasked to work on another similar but ultimately separate thing that they are unfamiliar with.)

That is my dilemma and I am interested in hearing what those who know about this program have to say about it.

Someone I know has a wikipedia page written about them and it has been vandalised. It is now full of slander and misinformation.

I tried to delete the information myself and mark it for deletion, but someome banned me and re-added the damaging information, also adding my username and IP address to a list on the post.

How should I proceed now?