User talk:Htw3

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Questions

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How do I create sub pages on my user page? Thanks!

Just create User:Htw3/ResourcesPurple. Algebraist 15:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Research Methods Projects

social simulation
demographic analysis
Secondary data talk
- Kaylee
- Sarah
- Andrew
- Charles
historical comparative methods
causation and study design

Professor Welser,

I was editing my group's wiki page on identity control theory and I just now realized that had forgotten to sign in. Because of this my main edits are marked by my computer's IP address which apparently is 65.24.139.236. I am really sorry about this inconvenience but i can't really go back and change it.

Thank you!

Sammy Donahue --Srd524 05:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User_talk:Aaron1509 (Derek)User_talk:Booth51 User:Bballindil32 Dustin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causation_and_Research_Design

--Cougar11 17:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC) unsigned comment added by Booth51 (talk • contribs) 17:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Demographic_analysis

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobcat17 User:bobcat17 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_simulation Team: 4Bobcats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TS0905

Demographic analysis

What are these methods? While the methods may warrant their own pages, demographic analysis is demography. Perspicacite 19:28, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assignments and Wikipedia

You may be interested in WP:SUP and WP:WPCC. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 04:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Piotr-- Thank you very much for the pointers to the course coordination pages. I will definately use the suggestions and tips therein. --Htw3 16:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. In future, consider copying your replies to the other person talk page, so they can be notified of the reply. Let me know if I can be of any assistance (I am a grad student in sociology and one of wiki admins, for reference).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 18:24, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Few other notes: Causation and Research Design was speedy deleted by admin User:Natalie Erin, after User:Saxsux identified the article as a copyvio of [1]. If you could create a list of the articles created/edited by the students, we could go through them and list issues for improvement. Also, if you can tag such articles with {{EducationalAssignment}} (on their talk pages), it would be great. Another useful template if {{WikiProject Sociology}} (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Assessment). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 18:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

120 student project? That's very impressive; it is something I'd like to do one of those days (I wrote an article on Teaching with Wikipedia - [2] - but it is more 'suggestions' than 'experience' (which I have very little of)). I'd love to hear how you prepared the course and how are you administering it (subject selection, distribution among students, etc.). This is even a publishable topic - to my knowledge nobody has described how they actually thought a course on Wikipedia yet.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 19:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, this is very similar to the framework I proposed in my article (search for missing stubs, assign students in groups to them). I am looking forward to seeing how do you - and the students - rate the experience! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Historical comparative research

This article had some fairly serious style/formatting/citation issues which I've resolved but wanted to bring to your attention since your use of wikipedia as a pedagogical item may mean that similar issues may exist elsewhere. As Piotrus mentioned above, there are some intro pages that should be quasi-required reading, but I would emphasize the Manual of Style, Guide to Layout, and Citation Templates as the standards the community uses. Also, don't forget to add some categories to new articles so you can get more "foot traffic" through your article as many experienced editors monitor these category pages for changes. Let me know if I can provide any other help. Madcoverboy (talk) 06:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to point out that the manner in which the references were formatted (namely, "superscripting" the ^{off-wiki link} to imitate footnote citation markup) indicates, to me, a willingness to format according to existing standards. I understand that many wikipedia "policy" articles (like those I linked above) are either meaningless or impenetrable -- something that definitely needs to be thoroughly evaluated and addressedZ. So I don't think it's merely a matter of the students not caring about the formatting, but rather that, the means of explaining why and how to do it are poorly implemented on our end. Madcoverboy 18:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No intention to merge theory of religious economy in coming 2 weeks

I have no intention to merge theory of religious economy into theories of religion in the coming two weeks. I (will) oppose merging a well-written, informative, well-cited article of reasonable length, but at the moment it is none of that very much. I greatly welcome improvements by your students, because I do not have access to the sources that you proposed. I am particularly interested in the application of the theory of religious economy for the situation in the Netherlands, because I live there and I think it cannot explain the continuing secularization there. (I read the abstract of an article about this subject and I tend to agree with the criticism of the religious economy.)Andries (talk) 15:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

Hi. Just to let you know, there is currently a discussion regarding an issue with which you may have been involved here on Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents. Thank you. --Bfigura ^(talk) 02:53, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

School Project Pages

Hi Htw3!

As you can see from the WP:ANI link above, we've been having a small community discussion about your Wikipedia school projects. We encourage teachers and professors to involve Wikipedia in their school projects, and we have some specific advice about it at WP:SUP, which links to various groups, templates, and places to host school project pages.

The one concen we have is that some of the school project pages you have hosted on in your userspace are not always associated with Wikipedia. For example, User:Htw3/Digital.projects.2009 doesn't seem to have much to do with Wikipedia.

An important policy for Wikipedia is WP:WEBHOST which essentially says you can't use Wikipedia as a webhost for content un-related to Wikipedia. Why? Basically, Wikipedia is required to use the resources given to Wikipedia (ultimately from charitable donations and other means) for purposes consistent with the stated goals and intentions of Wikipedia. Obviously, hosting web content not related to Wikipedia would be inconsistent.

We still don't want to lose you using Wikipedia for class projects. My suggestion, though, would be to restrict your school project pages to Wikipedia-related projects. If you want, we can help you move the other content off Wikipedia. Singularity42 (talk) 04:19, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the 30th I posted a reply on the admin discussion page linked above, which has since been archived. Two folks replied, but none of the admins who posted here or in that thread prior to my post had followed up as of yet. I am hoping you will have time to take a look at it. Thanks, Ted --Htw3 (talk) 01:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A further comment: those discussion threads usually only stay around for a day or so, then get archived. So if you don't see Bfigura's message soon enough, this link is a snapshot of the current state of discussion, but you may have to search the archive to find any later additions.

It is possible that by the time you see this, the pages will have been administratively deleted under the NOTHOST policy. If that happens and you don't have another copy, you can ask at WP:Deletion review for an administrator to temporarily restore the pages so that you can move the contents off of the wiki. As long as you make clear that it's just a short-term undeletion so that you can transfer the materials, the admins will probably accomodate the request. 69.228.171.150 (talk) 04:26, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Editing helps

With adding citations, here are some helps. First, there are templates which allow for some uniformity across the articles. They can be found at WP:CITET. You choose the appropriate template, paste the blank template between the "ref" tags and fill in whatever info you have. If you don't have a specific parameter (like not having the date or not having the author) then you remove that parameter. When you want to use a reference multiple times, you put <ref name=repeat> (using any word in place of "repeat") instead of just <ref> and then put the full citation afterwards, basically giving the citation a "code name". When you want to use the same citation later, then you simply put <ref name=repeat/> instead of the full citation again. On printed materials, especially history books, I try to use specific page numbers whenever I can. If I cite a book later in an article but from a different page, I'll just use the author's last name followed by "p. XX" or "pp. XX-XX". That makes it a little easier to verify if needed. I have done these several times in the Kent, Ohio article if you want to see examples. Happy editing! --JonRidinger (talk) 20:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks-- I was part way through figuring that out-- though I missed the part about page numbers. Will look at the Kent page. --Htw3 (talk) 21:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]