Prof.Jamieson

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Sandra. I am exploring different parts of Wikipedia in the training modules, and right now I'm learning how to use talk pages. Cmckittr (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia typically doesn't use titles like "Dr."

We typically don't use titles like "Dr." in articles. ElKevbo (talk) 00:23, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Oh. Okay. There is a move to indicate when women have a doctorate, but I guess that started with Jill Biden so is considered political. I'll change it. Thank you for the information.

My students are going to try to clean up the draft page for Hilary Link, which has been rejected several times and needs a lot of work. Hopefully we will make it better not worse! Prof.Jamieson (talk) 01:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

This has been part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style since March of 2006 so it's not at all recent. And of course it applies to everyone regardless of their sex or gender; in my experience, however, it is inconsistently applied because this is a very large, complex project with tens of thousands of volunteer editors, many of whom are amateurs and don't know our typical or preferred practices and habits. I've starting paying more attention to it and editing articles about colleges and universities to remove most instances of titles so maybe someday more articles will be in better shape with respect to this particular practice...

Best of luck and let me know if you need any help! ElKevbo (talk) 03:00, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm learning! Prof.Jamieson (talk) 03:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)