User talk:Thewitt1/sandbox

draft comments

Hi @Thewitt1: I'm providing online support for your class at UMD and I had a few comments on your draft.

• By and large I think it looks great. You'll want to add some "wikilinks" where appropriate (for example to Iyaric (dread talk) or Jamaican literature).
• Is Woodside a neighborhood in Kingston? I can't seem to find any information on the town by itself
• I've found a few sources which might be helpful:
  • this profile at University of the West Indies seems useful
  • JSTOR is broken at the moment but there are a number of reviews of her work in various journals they index. I think a concerted search through her works there as well as (for reference in the article) works talking about her or her research would be helpful to the article as it appears she did a lot of work on Creole languages. We note this in the draft now but don't expand much upon it.
  • ISBN 0822381923 (pp. 38-40) talks a bit about her work (though it's more of a conversation than directly about her) ISBN 9027293309 (p. 35) mentions the same article briefly. I don't think either of these is a slam dunk for a biography, but it might be valuable to mention that she writes about the social construction of creole languages. Up to you.
• Take a look at Janise Yntema for some ideas on formatting (as it's a pretty decent short article on a related subject). Specifically you may want to format your references so they're not just bare URLs. This isn't required, but it helps editors recover the original source in case the link is changed or removed.
• Section titles are not title cased. So "Early Life and Education" should be "Early life and education" (first word is capitalized, all following words save proper nouns are lower case)
• On wikipedia article the "further reading" section is generally (though not exclusively) used for books and journal articles while links (like the interview and profile you have) are placed into a section usually called "External links". That's a cosmetic change, but it often helps readers to have roughly standardized structure for wikipedia articles.

All in all these are relatively minor suggestions. Good work so far. If you have any questions please let me know. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:30, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

I made a few edits, like capitalization edits to section headings, adding wikilinks, and moving the "Further reading" section. The citations were not really formatted, so I formatted the first one in a template as an example and then started templates for the other two sources so that the fields that need to be completed are identified.

If you have more than one use of the same source, you can name the first use - with the full citation information with a name, like <ref name="Gleaner"> .....</ref> and each subsequent use just needs a tag like <ref name="Gleaner" />.--CaroleHenson (talk) 06:52, 10 November 2014 (UTC)