User talk:Amfarr21

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— GorillaWarfare ^talk 18:53, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your article

Hello, Amfarr! As you requested, I watchlisted your article. I see you made some changes to it! I hope you don't mind, but I went in and made some quick changes as well. I added a few more wikilinks to the first section, as they were a little sparse. I also formatted the first word of the page -- the subject -- as De-Ba'athification as opposed to "De-Ba'athification", as per the guideline. I also formatted your "See also" section, and combined your bibliography with the references. Keep in mind that I was being bold here, so if I did anything you didn't like, feel free to change it back. Just a few notes -- your citations in the lede look great! There sure are a lot of them, though. I presume you still intend to take out the parenthetical citations? Also, what is meant by "Also look at Chandrasekaran and Shadid books."? — GorillaWarfare ^talk 14:29, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GorillaWarfare! I took a look at your revisions, and I appreciate your help! I'm going to hopefully finish putting in references tonight (10/17/10) and then I can focus on consolidating. My professor's instructions for the project so far as that we need to have an outline with at least some information within each topic. To that end, I'm trying to get the article as complete as possible, but I don't have to have it completely together yet (that's the 28th of October!). I will take out the parentheticals and the reference to Chandrasekaran and Shadid are to books that I thought I might reference, but since I do later in the article, I think I'll leave them out of the lede. Thanks again for your help, and after tonight's addition, hopefully it will start looking more like an article! Amfarr21 (talk) 04:01, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! I'll keep an eye on it. I noticed that it doesn't seem like you have a mentor yet. Are you interested in being added to my mentor list, since I've already worked with you? It's up to you, but I believe you guys will be getting mentors pretty soon. Let me know! — GorillaWarfare ^talk 16:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey GorillaWarfare! I don't have a mentor as of yet, and since we've worked together, you can put me down on your list. I'm going to finish tonight with the reference notes, and that will probably be all I have time for in terms of the project. However, I will be adding more to the sections that you mentioned, and the one's that mention "more information will go in this section." Thanks again for your help! Amfarr21 (talk) 22:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Amfarr21, I've added your article to the "workbench", a new central review area for articles created as part of the Public Policy Initiative. You can find it here. I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed by your work. Good luck! --Fschulenburg (Public Policy) (talk) 22:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mentor

It seems that GorillaWarfare may be full as they've declined other requests. If your request is declined, I'm willing to be your mentor...(Very nice work on Ba'ath Party in your sandbox so far!)Smallman12q (talk) 12:40, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you may want to see how to better format your references as your article stands now and the "cleaner approach".Smallman12q (talk) 13:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry! I did see your request and accepted it in my head, but apparently forgot to tell you! I also missed your message. I hope it's not too late -- I'd be happy to be your mentor! — GorillaWarfare ^talk 19:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey User:Smallman12q and User:GorillaWarfare! I'm sorry about any message confusion on my end (As might be apparent, this more technical use of the internet is new to me). Smallman12q, I'm going to stick with GorillaWarfare for the mentor position, but I would appreciate any advice (and thank you for the info you already sent me) you might offer on making the article better. Please feel free to add my article to your Watchlist. GorillaWarfare, I'm going to be working on finishing the article and cleaning it up for an initial launch later this week. Other projects and assignments took priority over the article, but now I can devote some time to it. Over the next couple of days, I'll be making changes to it based on your suggestions and the info Smallman12q sent me. I hope both of you are well, and thanks again for your help! Amfarr21 (talk) 02:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

De-Baathification

Hello there! Just checking in on your progress with the article. It seems you have added to the article, rather than shortened it...? — GorillaWarfare ^talk 14:27, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Thanks for checking up on the article. I know it's longer, but I spoke with my professor here at Georgetown, and her thought was that the length wasn't really an issue since it is a large topic. My thought, to try and strike a compromise is to put the article out there as it stands, and see what the readers think. What do you think of this idea? Amfarr21 (talk) 18:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let me just say that your work on this article is absolutely terrific. Yes, it is long, and yes, there are some minor things that can still be fixed, but I hope that you will strongly consider nominating De-Ba'athification (I re-titled it per the page naming guidelines) for good article (GA) status. You don't have to do this now, and it will take time because it's a moderately intensive review process, but this article seems like a good candidate for a GA. I'm sure GorillaWarfare would be glad to help you if you pursue this. Cheers, /ƒETCH COMMS / 23:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'd love to help! I've never done much work in this area, but I can hopefully stumble along and try to help. — GorillaWarfare ^talk 00:26, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I really appreciate both of you helping me with this article. This week will be a busy one for me in terms of classes and assignments, but I will be working to make changes as I have time, and as new suggestions come in. One thing I know needs to be fixed is how the references are organized, and Smallman12q had some suggestions. I would be happy to make the changes to the references, but I need the tutorial on how to do it, so if there are pages on how to do it, that would be very helpful for me. Seriously though, thank you guys for helping me out. Amfarr21 (talk) 13:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To Fetchcomms and GorillaWarfare, I just took another look at the article, and whoever reformatted the references/notes section is a hero! It look so much better, and I really appreciate the help! I can't believe it looks so clean! Amfarr21 (talk) 19:03, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I replied to your message on my talk page. /ƒETCH COMMS / 21:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above comments, this is already probably a candidate for Good Article, and with not too much more work might qualify for Featured Article. cmadler (talk) 14:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moving your page

Hello. You have a new message at Talk:De-Ba'athification Policy's talk page. — GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for De-Ba'athification

On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article De-Ba'athification, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

-- Cirt (talk) 12:04, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on the DYK, Amfarr! How goes the article editing? — GorillaWarfare ^talk 06:42, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You have a new message at GorillaWarfare's talk page.

Hi Amfarr21, a (late) congratulations on getting your article onto the Did You Know section on the Wikipedia front page! As you probably saw, the work you did on the De-Ba'athification article was viewed by 1.6 thousand people on November 7th! Great job, and keep it up! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 07:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Alin! I was happy to see it up on the DYK page, and I'm glad to hear that so many people were able to view the article!Amfarr21 (talk) 20:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your work

Did you know that you have the largest contribution (byte-wise) to the article namespace out of all of the USPP initiative students? Impressive! — GorillaWarfare ^talk 19:47, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey GorillaWarfare- I saw that on a page Dr. Davis sent us, and the link you provided! Thanks again for all your help this semester! Amfarr21 (talk) 02:55, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]