Sarita2903

Welcome to Wikipedia! Romaine (talk) 16:50, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

You can find the course page here: Wikipedia:Education program/Maastricht University/Autumn 2015. Romaine (talk) 16:50, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

comments on sandbox about wikiwashing

Hi Sarita. Allow me to make a few comments on your sandbox:

• This is really looking good already. It is highly informative (and critical). I like it. But perhaps it does not yet fit in Wikipedia directly. Some of the highly critical statements you make must be built on sources.
• It's important to create wiki-links in your article from the beginning. It “embeds” your text in the broader Wikipedia-context. First of all to Mayo Fuster Morell, of course. But also to a lot of other important concepts and terms like social media, whitewashing etc.
• Avoid using terms like “over the past years”. Your article will be in Wikipedia for ever (if all goes well). And no one can understand that term when we're ten years further. Be as factual as possible: “since (about) 2... new types of sharing practices developed etc. etc.”
• Make inline references in your text. See: Help:Referencing_for_beginners.
• Think about a way to further “embed” your article in Wikipedia by making links from other pages to your wikiwashing page. To start with, from the page of Mayo Fuster Morell of course. I see the term wikiwashing only used in a reference. Perhaps you can write a few lines on it in the May Fuster Morell-article itself, and then link to your article? But perhaps also from the pages on sharing economy and social media (somewhere in the paragraph about critics, perhaps?) and pages like that. This does connect your article better to other articles in the same field. It makes it more of a “web”
  

(part of this comments may also be of importance for Kim).
It's really a pity that I can't be in your class next Friday. But I wish you good luck with your job! Greetings, --Dick Bos (talk) 11:01, 26 November 2015 (UTC)