Kittybug

Hey, this is Kelsey from your group, just wanted to leave you a message as per our assignment. Krhatley (talk) 20:10, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

This is Dan. I guess I didn't technically post on someone else's page yet, so...hi. Smythadon (talk) 05:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

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Hey, I'm just linking you to my page: User talk:Krhatley so you can see the articles I found and thought were interesting. Thanks! Krhatley (talk) 22:52, 22 September 2011 (UTC) Hey McKenna! Check out my talk page for some focuses for our project that I thought looked really interesting! Kmfrance (talk) 18:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatompki (talk • contribs)

Feedback on Week 4 Assignments

I see that you caught yourself making at edit to the First Impressions before logging in and then logging in to provide the edit summary... nice catch! In general, when you are making changes it can be helpful to cite evidence rather than just making a statement. I also noted that you only linked to Kelsey's talk page with your list (and not your other group members) - you will want to make sure they are aware of what you are considering at this point. Your list should also go on your user page (not here on your talk page) as this is where you will be documenting your work. I'm not making the move for you as I believe that you linked here for Kelsey and I want others in your group to be able to easily see what you found. That being said, sometime soon you'll want to move that over to your user page. In terms of possible topics... all three topics are fairly well-developed articles at this point (Autism Treatments less so, perhaps, than the others). In general, it will be easier for you to focus on a topic that is stub-quality or weakly developed (or perhaps hasn't even been written about at all). From the handout in this week's recommended readings on choosing an article:

Advice for choosing articles to work on

• Choose a term that is well established in the discipline, but only weakly represented on Wikipedia. The best choice is a topic where a lot of literature is available, but isn't covered extensively on Wikipedia.
• Scope: Look for topics that are specific and narrow enough to be manageable, but broad enough that sufficient sources exist to write a solid, sizable article.
• Gravitate toward "stub" and "start" class articles. These articles have only 1-2 paragraphs of information and are in need of expansion.
• Before creating a new article, spend 15-20 minutes searching related topics on Wikipedia to make sure your topic isn't already covered. Often, an article may already exist under another name or be a subsection of a broader article.

What to avoid for student projects

• Trying to improve articles on very broad topics (e.g. Law) or articles that are already of high quality on Wikipedia
• Trying to improve articles on topics that are highly controversial, e.g. Global Warming, Abortion, Scientology, etc. (Start a sub-article instead.)
• Working on something only sparsely covered by literature
• Starting articles with titles that imply an essay-like approach, e.g. “The Effects That The Recent Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis has had on the US and Global Economics” instead of “Subprime mortgage crisis” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatompki (talk • contribs) 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Feedback on Week 5 Assignments

Excellent work. I did notice that you had a small error on your closing reference tag - it should be </ref> so you'll want to make that edit. Additionally, you will want to make sure that your citations are in APA style. If you haven't yet been using your sandbox to make edits before moving them over to an article I would highly recommend this strategy as it is much cleaner but also includes a "cite" tool in your toolbar and which allows you to then choose from template, either a website, book, newspaper or journal and by plugging in the information it will cite it cleanly for you. Hope your group is moving closer to narrowing down a copy? Let me know if I can help! Tatompki (talk) 17:46, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Note

Hey! Just wanted to let you know I did some editing on our page, I left a note on the talk page. Thanks, Krhatley (talk) 00:15, 3 December 2011 (UTC)