User talk:Ms68441

Hello!! I am a graduate student at Western Carolina University in the Public Affairs graduate program. More later...

Hey Mindy

Look, Ma! I'm making friends on the internet!! - Boonefrog (talk) 15:43, 27 January 2011 (UTC) Billy, you dont have any friends on the internets, the internets is the devil! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trevs5987 (talk • contribs) 15:54, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Mindy, just doing the whole comment thing while I'm bored at work. I look forward to reading your article. Tdtallent1 —Preceding undated comment added 19:13, 10 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Mentoring

Hi Mindy, glad to have you on board. That's an interesting topic, and I think it could make a great article. I'd recommend you get to know the interface a bit, and I'm glad you've already tried some edits in a sandbox. When writing the article, I'd also suggest that you get your sources together first, and based on what they say, divide the page into various sections that can then be filled out and referenced. You might also try to find one or more articles on similar topics that you can look at, and get ideas from them on how to format the it, and which templates or categories might be appropriate. If you have any questions leave a message on my talk page or you can also email me. Good luck!-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 17:20, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Right, you can make more pages the same way you made the sandbox, such as by creating User:Ms68441/Sandbox/Topic1 or User:Ms68441/Topic2, however you prefer to organize the pages. Glad to hear you're getting research done now, it should give you a good head start! Keep in touch-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 05:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye out on your contributions. One think to careful with is not starting lines with a space, which causes the Wiki software to display all the following text as a unformatted block. Best of luck!-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 20:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the head's up. I corrected the spacing. ~Mindy

Migrant Housing Act

Hi there, so sorry its taken so long to get back to you, its been crazy with moving and work, but about the article. The prose looks good, but you do need to add an Introduction. It doesn't need to be very long, just two or three sentences at least, and give a quick message about the article. For example: The Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina (S.B. 631) was made law in the U.S. state of North Carolina in 1989. It governs how migrant workers can be employed in that state." The rule of thumb is to have a sentence from each section, so you can add mentions from "Standards" and from "Advocates". The introduction also doesn't need citations, though the statements should be cited in the text below. When you say interviews, I presume you don't mean published interviews, but ones you do yourself? If that's the case, then no, you can't use it, since it would be considered original research. Sources need to be published to be used. However, if they were, then it should be fine. I'd probably note it like this: "In 2009, Congressman Devin Munes stated on Fox News that...".-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 18:09, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, articles need to be newly created or have been enlarged several times over to get in DYK. But otherwise, the article looks really good! If you wanted to seek recognition, I could help see if its ready for Good article status.-- Patrick, _oѺ^∞ 01:22, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina

On 5 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that until the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina was amended in 2007, North Carolina had very few health and safety regulations for migrant farmers' housing? 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.

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)