Chele1169

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Hello, Chele1169, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:24, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Article choice

Hi! I saw that you had trouble selecting an article. Which one were you trying to select? I see that you have bisexuality as the article you will edit and Adolescent gender identity as the one you will review - is that correct? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I am in need of help. I am trying to find articles on adolescence and helping with their gender identity. If you can help me that would be great. Is it a pleasure to meet you Shalor! Cheri Shelton 22:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• There is an article on gender dysphoria in children, however that article is fairly extensive. I did find an article on Pinafore eroticism, which covers both the use of forced feminization as a punishment tactic (typically against children) and as a fetish. This could definitely be expanded some.

This is a fairly specific topic area, so it may be good to be a little more general. For example, the category Category:LGBT stubs has stub articles that would be easier to expand than some of the other articles, however. The same goes for Category:Gender studies stubs. Out of these categories some topics that could be worked on are Adam and Steve, skin gap, güevedoce, pansexual pride flag, red dress party, stone butch, or liberal homophobia. The book on Stone Butch Blues, which is seen as quite influential and notable, could also use some expansion.

Let me know if any of these interest you - if so, then I can help give you pointers on searching for sourcing. Offhand your library would be an excellent resource to check first, followed by specific databases. For example, this is what is brought up when searching for the term "stone butch". Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello Shalor, my article to write in my sandbox for my eng 2 class is Adolescents and gender identity. I did edit gender disphoria and children, and yes has alot of information and references. So I am going to set that up in my sandbox. Any suggestions would be welcomed! Cheri Shelton 02:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Resources at the bottom of the page

At Shalor's talk page, you asked:

How do I insert resources at the bottom of the page.

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question; are you talking about References, those footnotes that you see at the bottom of most Wikipedia articles? If so, you could review your Training module about adding citations. This will cover the whole procedure.

Keep in mind, that most of the time, you're not actually adding footnotes at the bottom of the page. You should add your references in-line with the text of the article you are creating. You should write each footnote, right after the material it is a resource for. Then, when you use the <references> tag or the {{Reflist}} template at the bottom of the page, the Wikipedia software will automatically collect all the citations that you sprinkled throughout your article, and display them all together at the bottom of the page, and leave little bracketed numbers in the text, to show where the references are placed.

If this is not what your question was about, please respond below and clarify. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 06:49, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

• Hi Chele1169 (and thanks Mathglot!) - this module goes over how to add citations to articles. Like Mathglot stated, once you add a citation it will be show up on the bottom of the article/sandbox. In some cases you may have to save your work before you see them at the bottom, but as long as you see the citation number (should show up as a tiny number) and there's content in it when you hover over the citation, it will show up properly.

Now I will say that the citations should be as complete as possible so that users can find the source on their own if they so desired. So for instance, if you were to cite a book you'd need to have the author's name, year of publication, title, publisher, and so on. It should look like this:

Edwards, Matthew (2007). Film out of bounds: essays and interviews on non-mainstream cinema worldwide. McFarland. pp. 112–125. ISBN 0786429704.

You can pretty much get the idea - it's very similar to how it would show up in a paper citation. I also want to recommend these videos on YouTube. They go over editing in Visual Editor as a whole and while they are using a slightly older version of Visual Editor, all of the basics are the same. This video covers the basics of adding citations in specific. I know that I'm a very visual learner and videos are always really helpful, so I didn't know if it would be the same for you as well. Let me know if you still have questions over the citations or anything else! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:35, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Talk page response

Hi! I saw that you posted that you were still having trouble finding other sandboxes in your class. You should be able to find them by going to the student tab and clicking on the "sandbox" link under the person's username. This should bring up all sandboxes for that person in their userspace. That is, all content with titles that start with "User:(their username).

Does this help your question? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2019 (UTC)