User talk:Scaryszary/Internet meme

Things to work on for your Week 9 continued edits:

Evaluate an article: Go back to your article evaluation and pull out the list of things you said you could improve on the existing article. Put that list here in the talk page and cross things off as you do them (you can also edit what I have said below and cross things off as you complete them).
Copyedits: Move those to this sandbox, and when you do so publish each with explicit notes on what you changed from the original Wikipedia article. That way when you migrate your work to live Wikipedia you will be able to publish and explain each change as you go. Doing so is a required part of the Week 13 Wikipedia assignment.
Bibliography: This is a good start, but now you should start summarizing and adding content to your sandbox that utilizes these sources. That way you can see if you need to do more research. There are several callouts for "citation needed" in the existing Wikipedia article, and you should see if you have sources you can cite for those.
Citing sources: What you added from Shifman is good, but the sentence on Pepe (from the existing article) could use a citation.
Adding media/hyperlinks: Good hyperlinks, and you should go through and see if there are things that should be hyperlinks in whatever you add and the existing article. The image you added was taken down, and as we discussed, that is a danger in posting meme images (unless it was just a photo of Pepe? Which is on the Pepe page so it would seem weird if you couldn't post it). Technically, image macros are/should be covered by fair use. You don't have to worry about this though, as posting media isn't required for the final assignment. You can keep working to see if you can find a way to post and example that will not get flagged, as that would be an interesting challenge. But, again, not required(that is, you had to do it for this assignment, but in your final Wikipedia contributions don't add it just to add it).
Overall: You seem to be doing things week by week, but now you really need to focus on the bigger picture of what you plan to add/edit here. Is there more in the existing article that needs copyediting? More citations you can use to expand on the sections ytou said needed to be developed more? The more planning you can do now the easier it will be for you to chip away at those edits between now and November 22 when you need to move your final edits to live Wikipedia.

Adrishaw (talk) 13:32, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

11/11 Update

I plan on adding more content from academic citations.
I also am double checking all my hyperlinks and grammar to make sure my article is ready for Week 13!

Week 12 feedback:
You do need to double check that your citations appear correctly (#2 does not, for instance). And yes, it sounds like a good idea to add more from your academic citations. You are on track with what you have added already. Good job! Adrishaw (talk) 23:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

12/4 Update

Right now, I disagree with some of the Wikipedian's arguments made in response to my edits. They were very civil about it, which I do appreciate.

One of the arguments presented was when I changed the lead. They believed that my edits were changed the fairly straightforward explanation into a more technical view, which I could agree with. However, they proposed that this appeared to be a view on how internet memes are spread, but not universally accepted. However, the same Wikipedian then argues that "humor is essential to internet memes identity. I would argue that this in itself, is hypocritical and just another "view". Sure, humor could be intended for an internet meme but I don't believe all internet memes are inherently humorous. For example, I wrote and researched about internet memes that involve politics like the Occupy Wallstreet Movement, which did include some humor but not "all" of them. Therefore, while I do agree that internet memes can be intended to be humorous, the subjectivity of humor is based upon the viewer.

I am looking at the copyright section for my "final" Wikipedia contribution, as well as reviewing old changes. Not sure if I have enough. Scaryszary (talk) 19:46, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]