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editHi there and welcome to Wikipedia.
My name is Tim Davenport, I write as "Carrite" at Wikipedia (WP), and I spend a good part of my time working on radical politics and labor history-type stuff. I'm consequently very interested in seeing Dr. Higbie's class contributions be successful in providing quality, lasting content to the encyclopedia. I have rounded up a number of colleagues at WP who have agreed to help answer any questions from the class as they arise.
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Wikipedia User Name User's WP Homepage User's Talk Page link Comments Carrite Tim's Homepage Tim's Messages Direct email addie: MutantPop@aol.com. Rjensen Dr. Jensen's WP Homepage Dr. Jensen's Messages Professional historian and veteran Wikipedian. Cullen328 Jim's WP Homepage Jim's Messages Veteran WP content creator. Orangemike Mike's WP Homepage Mike's Messages Administrator at WP with labor history knowledge. Malik Shabazz Malik's WP Homepage Malik's Messages Administrator at WP with labor history knowledge.
Good luck with your work! —Tim Davenport /// Corvallis, OR /// MutantPop@aol.com /// Carrite (talk) 18:37, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Joann0406, Hi. I have reverted your additions to the page Pauline Newman. Some of the stuff seemed to me to be simply cut and pasted from one of the sources listed with little rewording and insufficient clarity as far as citation is concerned. For example this source: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/newman-pauline has this:
- "She joined the Socialist Literary Society at age fifteen and began to school herself in the social realist literature that she hoped to emulate. Charles Dickens was a particular favorite. Through her reading, she perfected her English-language reading and writing skills. Believing that literature would both comfort and radicalize her fellow workers as it did her, Newman organized after-work study groups at Triangle. These became the basis for the women’s unions she would soon organize."
Our article then had this:
- "At age fifteen, she joined the Socialist Literary Society and began to school herself in the social realist literature that she hoped to master. Through her readings, she perfected English. Believing that literature would both comfort and radicalize her fellow workers as it did her, Newman organized after-work study groups at Triangle. These became the basis for the women’s unions she would soon organize."
My feeling this is not really OK. I think this Wikipedia:Citing sources could be useful. Hope this is OK with you and I don't mean to be mean. Feel free to get in touch if you need help. Best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 05:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC))
PS: I have added this: {{Educational assignment}} to the talk page of the article as sugested above. (Msrasnw (talk) 05:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC))
- Hi Joann. Apologies for all the confusion, the addition to articles of big chunks of text with no "in-line" footnotes is a red flag indicator of copy-and-paste copyright violations and I think my colleague Msrasnw had his inner alarm buzzer go off... Would it be possible for you to dive through and quickly footnote the source of as many lines as you can? Even if you just put (Author, Page #) in parentheses, the Wiki-gnomes will be able to whip that into standard footnote form. It is pretty important to have the source of each significant fact documented. If you need help with the (needlessly complex) form for writing footnotes, drop me a line and I can walk you through it. But, like I say, even if you just go back and add a multitude of (Author, Page#) footnotes, this sort of thing can and will be fixed by volunteers who like to do that sort of thing.
- I have also thrown in some headings, which you should free to add to, move, or change. It's good to break up the text for readability with headings. Excellent work on the bio, please don't be discouraged or mad about the misunderstanding. The vandalism patrollers have a tough job and your contribution was hard for them to figure out... best, —Tim Davenport /// MutantPop@aol.com /// Carrite (talk) 06:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)