Heathercide

Heather, I'm starting your talk page for you so that I can use it later in class on an exercise. Hope you don't mind! Schuette Aschuet1 (talk) 16:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

A Question Regarding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Public Contribution Projects

How do you feel about liberty offered by, among other sites, Wikipedia, to contribute to public projects? Do you feel an impetus to contribute? --Thenichi (talk) 17:28, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I think the option is interesting, and I've got a soft spot for coding, but I don't feel an impetus to contribute. Maybe because I don't feel like I have much "free time?"Aschuet1 (talk) 17:31, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I agree with that. I do not feel like I MUST contribute to this. I think there are other ways to contribute my effort and whatever knowledge I have to offer. Gpecenka (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I didn't think about free time before, though it seems like a sound reason. I used to feel like I had to contribute a lot more when I was in middle school and had an excess of free time. --Thenichi (talk) 17:37, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Personally, I have felt sometimes when reading particular pages about a book I've read or something where I feel that the page was inadequate, but have never made the move to edit it myself. Perhaps like Professor Schuette I don't feel like I have free time. Heathercide (talk) 17:39, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

If I know valuable information about the topic and I see a discrepancy, I will definitely want to change it or add to it. My inner English major and my growing love for coding makes it a very appealing thing to do. --Kcunnin1 (talk) 17:44, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Brief Bio

Heather Ide English (Classics minor)

Latin literature

• Roman lyric poets: Catullus, Horace, etc.
• Epic poets: Vergil
• Historiographers: Livy, Suetonius

Heathercide (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Heathercide, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Step 1: Rhetorical Analysis

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths:

• for a fairly broad topic, the summary is very concise and is not overly long
• good balance in aspects talked about

Weaknesses

• Not very comprehensive in scope
• The sections are all very brief and often only have one or no citation
• Many generalizations that start with "some" or "many" and are unsourced
• Few references overall and come mainly from one source (the New York Times)

History

1. Originally created in September 2006
2. Originally was literally just a link redirecting to another page, then became a brief paragraph, then more of a general overview, and now has sections, was most recently edited this January, though mostly for stylistic issues.
3. As far as editing for content, sadly doesn't seem to have been touched since 2012-2013ish

Talk page

The only conversation that appears on the talk page is one considering whether it should be merge with a larger article of which mine is kind of a branch. Originally started in 2014, not a huge amount of people responded, and the last response was from someone this January saying there was no consensus, so it should stay how it is. The tone was very respectful, though there were only a handful of people talking. They were not the same editors.

Edits

Changed a few comma errors & removed a very general and weird sentence with one that I think fits the content better.