User talk:Wikipedian107

Hello, Wikipedian107, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Happy editing! Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:32, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your message! I will put some ideas here about the next steps, shortly. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:32, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First steps

First of all, when you get chance, encourage all the other members of your team to each make an account for themselves. (I see Soccermonkey3 has one already.) This means each person can keep track of their own edits.

I am keeping track of who is working on what, here: User:Demiurge1000/SLSD Project

Soccermonkey3 has already created a link to a sandbox where you can experiment with editing. They're going to use that link to create the page - or you can. You can get there easily by going to their user page first: User:Soccermonkey3.

I will be watching both your talk pages (so, here and also User talk:Soccermonkey3), so you can talk or ask questions on either. Remember to reply after (below) the existing comments, and sign with the four ~ at the end. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 15:53, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the help. --Wikipedian107 (talk) 13:43, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

Our team plans to add the correct citations, fix some errors, and and some additional information complete with citations. Below is our plans. --Wikipedian107 (talk) 13:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The separation of powers is a model for the governance of a state. The model was first developed in ancient Greece and came into widespread use by the Roman Republic as part of the unmodified Constitution of the Roman Republic. Under this model, the state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that no one branch has more power than the other branches. The normal division of branches is into an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary. For similar reasons, the concept of Separation of church and state has been adopted in a number of countries, to varying degrees depending on the applicable legal structures and prevalent views toward the proper role of religion in society.[citation needed] Another famous example of this concept is displayed in the United States Constitution. This concept was brought to the constitution by James Madison the forth president of the U.S. He displayed this concept to the U.S congress in the mid-seventeenth century. {{ from the movie "A More Perfect Union" }}

Better place to put work in progress

This is good, but it's better to put it on a separate sandbox page, than here on your talk page. If you keep it here, things will get very confused if people are leaving messages for you while you are editing sandbox material here.

If you click this link: User:Wikipedian107/sandbox and then paste your material there and save the page, it will create a separate page (which will also have its own Discussion tab at the top) for you to work on the article. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, I see you created the sandbox already. That's the best place to work on the draft article. (And you can get back to it any time just by clicking the wikilink above, or typing in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikipedian107/sandbox ) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Extra thoughts - worldwide focus of article, and the to do list

One thing to be aware of, is that there is also a separate article Separation of powers under the United States Constitution. So, Separation of powers under the United States Constitution is about how separation of powers works in the USA, but Separation of powers is about separation of powers as a whole, across all countries and many different historical periods.

So it's important not to focus too much on content specific to the USA. As you can see on Talk:Separation of powers, at various times in the history of the article, different editors have suggested the article had "U.S. bias" or "U.K. bias" and so on.

One thing to take a look at is the "To do list" at the top of Talk:Separation of powers. Looking at the history of the to-do list here, the to-do list hasn't actually been updated since 2007! So you should need to work out whether the suggestions in the to do list have already been done, or whether they're not relevant to the article in its current form - remember you can edit the to-do list too.

Remember you can have as many sandboxes within your own user space as you like ... so if you click User:Wikipedian107/sandbox2 or User:Wikipedian107/sandbox400 or User:Wikipedian107/page_for_planning and edit, those pages will be created with those names. You could use a spare sandbox for people in your team to note down ideas about things in the article that need changing, or to note down references that you've found but aren't sure where to put in the article. Or if you find it quicker and easier to just use your talk page (here) for that, that's fine too. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Is User:Apu1010 part of your team as well? If so, I will add them to my list :) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:46, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

yes ---Wikipedian107 (talk) 14:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]