Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Drake University/Global Youth Studies (Fall 2013)

Can you make sure to???

Hello everyone - I am reading over the work from last week. There is some good stuff happening here! People are identifying articles to edit on their user pages, editing WP articles using information from the readings, and providing positive feedback. As you review your posts, can you make sure that in your work, you...

Provide substantive feedback to peers. What can you say to help them progress, rather than just say their work is "good" or "interesting?" Check out feedback from Abbey here for example.
Insert edits into articles that follow the guidelines for avoiding plagiarism. To get credit for an edit to an article, it must meet these standards. Please learn the standards now. They must be followed in proposals and drafts of articles and article edits in order to receive any credit on the assignment.
Create wp:citations that include page numbers?

Feel free to seek help from me, Abbey, or online resources available through WP. Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 01:50, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question?

Are we to put our 3 paragaphs of proposed research on our talk or user page? Under the September 18th class section, it says to put the proposal under our user page. Under the September 25th class section, it says to put the proposal under our talk page .I would think it'd go on our user pages, but I'm not sure. If anyone knows the answer, it'd be appreciated to know! Thank you!!Lhegtvedt (talk) 22:44, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Answer??

I had the same question!! I am assuming it's our user page, since that is where we put our inital statement about the subject that we were interested in. If we're wrong, I guess we'll find out tonight! NSully83 (talk) 19:55, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @NSully83: @Lhegtvedt: - Your userpage or a subpage will likely be your best option for those assignments. User talk pages are used for editor communication, so there is always a chance that someone will drop by and leave you a note on that talk page - something that can be quite inconvenient if your attempting to build a draft on that same page. User pages don't tend to be edited by other editors, and are thus a more stable environment to work in. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:06, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking on this question, Excirial. I didn't receive notification that the question had come up. I agree with Excirial's logic to place on User page. @NSully83:@Lhegtvedt:. However, we had said that either was fine, so both are acceptable for this week's assignment. Check out the next section for further information on uniform process for beginning to edit. Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 18:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Steps as you begin to edit your articles

As a reminder of the consensus we've reached about where to post proposals and also of the steps to pursue in beginning to participate as editors/writers of particular articles, here are some guidelines.

Let's move our proposals to your personal user page. Please leave feedback for others on their talk page.
Post on the article's talk page that you plan to edit, informing the WP community of the work you plan to do.
If you are editing an article, please create a sandbox and place the article in it for editing. If you are writing a new article, you may begin work on it there, too.
Please go to this section of our articles page and add the article you're working on.
Check for feedback on your talk page from Prof. V, Abbey, and/or Online Ambassador Gobonobo.
Work with the wp:Article wizard to create a new article, if that is your plan.
Place a course assignment template on the talk page of the article you are editing.
Archive your talk page.

We have a very exciting collection of articles that you're working on. I'm excited to see where they go! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 19:18, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]