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Student Hello
UnresolvedHello AndrewN:
This is Carey M. from the Women & American Politics class at Rutgers University.
Carey
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UnresolvedHello, My name is Paloma and I am taking Women and American Politics at Rutgers University. I am thinking of doing my paper on Mary Bono Mack. I would like to discuss her controversial committees and policies. Additionally, I would like to discover how her prominent family by marriage helped gain her a Congress position. Looking forward to working with you,
Pdeleon725 (talk) 02:42, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Still need reviews for the Wikipedia Education Program research project
ResolvedHi, Andrew! Thank you so much for reviewing some articles for the Wikipedia Education Program research project! The results of this project are vital for planning the coming semester in the program, and we'd like to review as many classes as possible in the next week.
I have gone through each class to prioritize for various projects, and everyone on the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation would be extremely grateful if you could participate further by reviewing a few more articles ('pre' and 'post' versions). If we can rally a lot of editors to review one or two articles each day, we will be able to make the most use of this research for our tight timeline. We are really eager to find out which classes have been successful according to the Wikipedian standard.
Here is the list of priority articles if you're interested in helping out. Thanks so much for your consideration! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 01:41, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
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UnresolvedHi Andrew, My name is Shampa and I am a student of the Rutgers University Political Science department. As a class project my classmates and I will edit articles in Wikipedia. Our project for this week is to introduce ourselves to the Online Ambassador. So hello, and hopefully we will communicate again in the near future. Thanks, Shampa
PS- I have made a post on my user page and was told to ask for your comments. I wasn't sure how to tag you on the post directly so that you see it, so I am asking you to please take a look at my user page at your convenience to read my comment and give me your suggestions. Thanks!!
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shampa R (talk • contribs) 02:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
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ResolvedHi Andrew, Thanks for you response. I intend to focus on Representative Michele Bachmann's position on immigration, specifically what she said her position was during the primaries: how she was going to deal with the undocumented immigrants, and how she was going to secure the border along Mexico had she became the President.
My goal for the project is that, since I am taking a Women and American Politics course and I am an immigrant, I would like to learn about and write something that would be a juxtaposition of these two topics.
As our class project we are supposed to either create a new article or edit an existing one. I noticed that Michele Bachmann's "position on immigration" section has very limited information so I would like to edit that article.
Thanks again, Shampa Shampa R (talk) 03:48, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- Continued on user's talk page
Hey, AndrewN, I saw you handling this on JohnCD's talk page. I just wanted to let you know that Careymur posted the same thing again as a new article; I've nominated it for speedy deletion as a test page. Is there another way we should handle these? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- I have explained, again, on the user's talk page that this information should be added to the main article, not posted as an introduction-less content fork. I have also explained WP:BRD, i.e. if you are reverted, don't just do it again, discuss. I wonder, does the user even know s/he has a talk page? S/he doesn't seem to take any notice of messages on it.
- General suggestion for briefing for all students (we had similar troubles with the IEP last year):
- Wikipedia is not just a website to edit, it;s a community you are joining and need to work with,
- What a talk page is,
- What a yellow "You have new messages" bar means,
- If you get messages you don't understand, don't ignore them, ask the person who sent them,
- The principle of WP:BRD.
- Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- Writ, thanks for letting me know. Not really sure what's going up, but I'll be in touch with the student again.
- John, I'm going to be in touch with the professor to see if I can get a Skype or IRC session scheduled with some of the students, and definitely go over these (and a few other things).
- If Careymur does post this again, definitely let me know. As much as I hate to say it, a temp-block may be in order if this issue persists, but we'll see how things go. AndrewN talk 20:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- If s/he does it a fourth time, maybe a 24-hr attention-getting block, but I hope not , because I have an idea what the problem is - see below. Three more points:
- On talk pages, add new messages at the bottom, or they may be overlooked,
- A post which Carey added to (the middle of) Talk:Mazie Hirono said: "it would be helpful if Ms. Hirono could include about her activism... ", suggesting that Carey is under the impression that the article is written and maintained by Ms Hirono herself, as would be the case on Facebook or Myspace. That may be why Carey has been reluctant to add material to the article directly. Other students might be under the same misapprehension.
- On the "User profile" tab under "My preferences" there is a drop-down box for "Gender", which defaults to "Undisclosed". I would encourage students to set that. If they have any objection, there's obviously no requirement, but with unisex given-names like "Carey" it avoids having to use cumbersome pronouns like s/he or his/her.
- Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- I've got an email thread going now with the user and their professor. Appears to be a misunderstanding, and after clarifying the assignment a little, hopefully this will be resolved. If not, just handle as you have and let me know. Much appreciated folks. AndrewN talk 23:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- If s/he does it a fourth time, maybe a 24-hr attention-getting block, but I hope not , because I have an idea what the problem is - see below. Three more points: