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Category:Article Feedback Pilot for Death of Osama bin Laden
A CIA lead operation does not fall within any reasonable defintion of public policy.©Geni 22:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- The public relations that follow though are a matter of public policy...no?Smallman12q (talk) 22:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- to get to that point you are stretching public policy so far as to be meaningless.©Geni 22:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- The category should only be added if there is consensus that the article falls within WikiProject United States Public Policy. And even then, if people don't want the category, there's no reason to force the issue. I'd say it's better to probably leave it off of this one.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:26, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- to get to that point you are stretching public policy so far as to be meaningless.©Geni 22:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Template:Citizen corps has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:51, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks. Guerillero | My Talk 20:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your note. I have responded on my talk page. Cheers TigerShark (talk) 13:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Please help assess articles for Public Policy Initiative research
Hi Smallman12q/Archive 4,
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May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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Referencing
Hi Smallman12q, Thanks for helping us out with our article. We have updated the greenhouse gas analysis under the article "CEQA" on wiki and was hoping you could give us some input. I also had a question on references. I use the same reference several times throughout my article and it shows up as a separate citation in the reference section. Is this standard? It would be nice if it showed up as one link placed throughout the article. Thanks again Brandon Liddell (talk) 01:11, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- You'll have to use named references. See Wikipedia:Referencing_for_beginners#Same_reference_used_more_than_once. The software does not automatically detect the same reference (long debates have been had about this). I've corrected one of the references to named references in this edit. Also, you should be consistent in placing references either before or after the period. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 11:21, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Nude Nuns with Big Guns
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Radclive
Has your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request been satisfied, or is it still outstanding? It's been several months, so a revisit may be in order. Thanks, LeadSongDog come howl! 18:05, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey
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Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:45, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
As I had indicated on my talk page, I see it as an unencyclopedic Wikipedia self-reference; nobody is going to search for "red link" and want to reach an article either on hyperlink nor on wiki markup. In addition, the title is being used all over the Wikipedia as an example of a red link (and had been protected for that reason for several years). If you disagree with my deletion, you can challenge it at deletion review. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 03:50, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Document 8.gif
Can you explain me the use of this file File:Document 8.gif? And why is this a wikipedia screenshot? Why not tagging it for deletion? mabdul 16:48, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- As the file description says, its a losslessly compressed version of an image used by the mediawiki software. You can delete it as it doesn't seem that the images were ever, or will ever be optimized...Smallman12q (talk) 23:57, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- Can you help me with anther problem? That draft: User:Rahulmit/American library new delhi I'm helping giving advices. The user is frequently at the IRC. He needs much more references, but similar as he, I can't get (on the first look) any good references. Can you find some? mabdul 12:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hey great. Thanks. mabdul 10:01, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks
For taking the review of Social web. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:37, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- My pleasure. It's is becoming an integral part of informatics. Also thanks for heping me out when I was new to the wiki=PSmallman12q (talk) 01:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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Re: social web
Thanks for the review. Could you add a summary of what should've been fixed by wasn't? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- I've added it to Talk:Social web/GA1.Smallman12q (talk) 12:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
US National Archives collaboration
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I require assistance with a matter concerning some pictures that I've uploaded under Non-Free Use please refer to the talk page on my article Maritime Heritage Trail - Battle of Saipan. I welcome any tips or suggestions you may have in general, but really need help with the matter regarding the images. Thank you Legr0004 (talk) 13:35, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- I've responded at Talk:Maritime_Heritage_Trail_-_Battle_of_Saipan#Break_1...if you have any questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 00:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
please have a look
at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Natami_(2nd_nomination)#Natami and add some reference if you find some... really interesting afd... mabdul 01:14, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
WP:DBR request
Hey Smallman, Just letting you know that in response to your request a few weeks ago, I ran a dump scan (from the April 5, 2011 dump). The results are here. Hopefully it's useful to you. Tim1357 talk 04:01, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks...I'll fix 'em up later today/tmrw.Smallman12q (talk) 12:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Belated reply
Hi, you popped up on my watchlist and I'm too lazy to log into email to reply so am replying here re your offer for Murasaki Shikibu sources. At the moment I'm in information overload, still have a few books to get through and a few databases to check, so I'm thinking I'd prefer to wait. Once I've been through everything I can find, if you have access to anything that's not covered, I'd be more than happy to have it. I'm expecting this to take a fairly long time - she is an important figure, and although not too much known about her biography, much has been written about her. Thanks again. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 14:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Figured you were busy. If you ever need more sources, let me know. Congrats on making FA with Indian Camp!Smallman12q (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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state departments of homeland security
i just noticed your request (in 2010) for someone to help write an entry about state departments of homeland security. the following site has an updated list as of july 2011 of where homeland security is housed in the states and territories. sometimes in a stand alone state department of homeland security; more often as a part of other departments: http://www.dhs.gov/xgovt/editorial_0291.shtm
Bellavita (talk) 19:42, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, will expand List of State Departments of Homeland Security with the info.Smallman12q (talk) 00:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
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Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:30, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Hahaha, funny. Herostratus (talk) 05:06, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of "I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday"
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Reasons for deleting article
Hello, Wikid77 here. Sorry for the snippy treatment of that article "I thought he was..." but this is a very busy time for Wikipedians. Many students are preparing to restart classes in mid-August, within 2 weeks. July is usually the worst (lowest) month for the English WP (...you might even be too busy to read this message now...). There have been many prior articles which covered negative remarks, so deletion tends to be quick. The article you had created was well-written, with good sources, on an important topic, but not NPOV-balanced to be a separate page. Perhaps there should be a broader article about people getting fired/suspended for saying 1 wrong word, but usually there cannot be a separate article for each person's particular remarks. Remember, Jimmy the Greek, Whoopie Goldberg, Bill Maher, or Gilbert Gottfried also lost their jobs due to remarks they had made. In the busy-July rush, your new article was viewed as collecting negative remarks into a short, negative article, with little emphasis on "fantastic complements stated" by the same person; hence, it was viewed as POV-slanted toward the insulting remarks, as being a WP:Attack_page.
There are NPOV limits to what most articles can contain, as isolated text. Article topics should be balanced, and avoid slanted titles; so even overly-positive titles can be a problem as well, such as article title "I think Obama is a genius" would be viewed as an unbalanced, promotional or propaganda page. Similarly, article titles should not advocate an opinion, such as title "Israel should deport all Palestinians" or an opposite title, "I think Palestinians should reclaim all lands". Also, individual notability involves a long-term impact, which is difficult to predict, except with major disasters or such. A hurricane (or tropical storm) has individual notability for the potential to sink ships, crash planes, flood towns, flatten buildings and injure/kill many people, as a long-term impact. For that reason, a hurricane goes beyond WP:NOTNEWS and gets a separate article immediately, expecting future reports of sunken ships, etc. However, for remarks made by famous people, it is difficult to predict when major, dedicated reports about those single remarks will continue to be published months into the future. As I read WP:GNG, unless a specific topic has easily predictable future coverage in major reports (or large sections of a book or film, etc.), then it does not qualify for individual notability, and cannot have a separate article, nor a major section of another article. I hope this helps to clarify the situation, and perhaps other people will have more time, later, to discuss these issues. Anyway, I regret that your well-worded, sourced text was deleted, and I hope you continue to find less-contentious areas to edit. Sorry for being so short or confusing, gotta run. -Wikid77 20:25, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps the article should have been renamed to be less offensive (or more reflective)...though a Google search for the quote would still return him as the main result. I generally edit in less-contentious areas (I've created over a hundred articles). I created the article too preemptively...perhaps as with Debrahlee Lorenzana. Anyhow, the incident has received renewed attention as Halperin is to be reinstated tomorrow...though I'm not sure its sufficient continual coverage that it would succeed at DRV (will have to wait for it in the history books). I'd like to apologize for creating extra work and applaud your effort in attempting to resolve the matter...(however futile given the new news reports). I did not create the article as an attack page, merely to record the incident in its entirety without giving it undue weight in his article...though I see why its viewed as attack page. I appreciate the response, and the fact that my contribution is regarded as "your well-worded, sourced text was deleted" by a veteran editor=D. Smallman12q (talk) 01:12, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Public law 86-90
In case you are still looking for this, you can find it on page 212 of this 130MB pdf file. Zerotalk 03:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks!Smallman12q (talk) 14:41, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Online Ambassadors: Time to join pods
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
- Working closely with the instructor and Campus Ambassadors, providing advice and perspective as an experienced Wikipedian
- Helping students who ask for it (or helping them to find the help they need)
- Watching out for the class as a whole
- Helping students to get community feedback on their work
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:36, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
- Thanks! Please add yourself to Greta Munger's pod by signing the MOU and editing the pod section of the course page. And thanks for the heads-up about the contact info on that other course page; I'll contact that professor.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 13:47, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic
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- It's a screenshot I took from the beginning of one of the episodes. So it comes from "the show." How should I attribute it?Smallman12q (talk) 20:25, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- It may seem odd, but we just need to be able to give credit to actual source of the image being used, including credit to yourself. Without that others can't be sure that possibly another person was responsible for image other than the show (ie. third person website or yourself). The source is for who took or hosts the particular image being used, not necessarily where the image first appeared. Thank you for the clarification and I have updated the FUR and removed the tags. Simply, own work is sufficient in these cases (I put your name in as not to claim credit for myself from the edit). Thanks again. Kindly Calmer Waters 21:07, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- I did not know that! I'll remember to credit myself in future uploads=D.Smallman12q (talk) 21:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- It may seem odd, but we just need to be able to give credit to actual source of the image being used, including credit to yourself. Without that others can't be sure that possibly another person was responsible for image other than the show (ie. third person website or yourself). The source is for who took or hosts the particular image being used, not necessarily where the image first appeared. Thank you for the clarification and I have updated the FUR and removed the tags. Simply, own work is sufficient in these cases (I put your name in as not to claim credit for myself from the edit). Thanks again. Kindly Calmer Waters 21:07, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Cognitive Psychology's Ambassador
Thanks for signing the MOU and agreeing to help me out with the class.
I'm new to all this...should I add you to the Course Page Instructors and Ambassadors?
Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Cognitive_Psychology_(Greta_Munger)
Just so you know, my students will be beginning to create their accounts this week, with a massive attempt during class time (Friday, 1:30-2:20 PM, EST).
Greta Munger (talk) 20:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine. I've added myself as the online ambassador. As the only online ambassador, I assume I'll be getting a lot of posts...which is fine. If you or the students have any questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 22:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I'm one of Dr. Munger's students. Excited to be working with you :) —Waterlily16 (talk) 20:03, 2 September 2011 (UTC) P.S. Thank you so much for welcoming me! All those links will become very useful very soon, I'm sure. —Waterlily16 (talk) 03:38, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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Just wanted to introduce myself
Hello Smallman12q,
My name is Sarah Davis and I am a student at Davidson College. I will be participating in the Wikipedia project this semester as part of my Cognitive Psychology class taught by Dr. Greta Munger. I just wanted to send you a message introducing myself to you since you are our Online Ambassador for this project.
I am excited to have the opportunity to work with you and be a part of making Wikipedia an even stronger encyclopedia.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Sarah SarahMDavis (talk) 11:38, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- If you have any questions, feel free to ask. (You're the 2nd person to introduce yourself after the other Sarah=P) Cheers.Smallman12q (talk) 18:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Rainmaking
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editors from US govt agencies
I'm collecting examples of US federal agency policies that allow/enable their staff to edit Wikipedia at work. My agency may move a bit forward on this. They want to see examples of good practice and so I'm collecting them. NIH and EPA have explicit public policies which are pretty decent (available at [9] and [10]). Do you know of other examples? I was glad to see your proposal about NASA. I'm happy to share anything I find .... and would probably benefit from a conversation or e-conversation (perhaps on a federal site). -- Econterms (talk) 22:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- There are a number of gov sites with social media initiatives...but most are for awareness (facebook, twitter, and the like) rather than content. Recently, the National Archives has gotten involved and actually have a Wikipedian in residence. It's nice to see that NIH is joining. NOAA is integrating some data from the wiki.The DOE is looking to make use of wikipedia. There are a number of other gov wikis not tied to wikipedia such as those on your userpage such as DodTechipedia, ACQuipedia, NASA has a wiki on its intranet, etc. Unfortunately, there's no government entities that have contributed heavily to articles on wikipedia (though the National Archives are donating a lot of images!). I'm amused at the belated response to the NASA proposal...but still interested to see it's coming along (however slow...). There also is an officially supported United States Public Policy initiative for colleges. You are welcome to inquire User:Ragesoss for more info. If you have any further questions, you're welcome to ask here, email me, or let me know when you'd like to meet on IRC. It's nice to see someone's interested!Smallman12q (talk) 01:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
equivalent idioms
Hi there. Just happened to find these 2 categories, but their existence is rather counter-intuitive. And from history you are the creator of them. What are Category:Chinese idioms with english equivalent and Category:English idioms with chinese equivalent supposed to contain? "易如反掌" and "as easy as pie" share no similarity besides both meaning "very easy", the paper quoted actually says thay have different origins. Therefore, it seems that I can pair up another Chinese idioms meaning "very easy" with as easy as pie. Could you name another example that fits into these categories? Cheers.--Curiouscattie (talk) 09:49, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- You're right. I wasn't sure how to organize them at the time... The idioms aren't really categorized well here. They should be organized by language and connotation (two separate categories). Also, we should make a category for literal translations which are more rare. If you have any other thoughts, feel free to let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 22:53, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Update on courses and ambassador needs
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Courses looking for Online Ambassadors
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
- Sociology of Poverty
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Backlog at Cleanup List
Hi there, I see that you were involved in setting up the new cleanup list tool last year. There is a bit of a backlog of requests at User_talk:Svick/WikiProject_cleanup_listing that Svick hasn't actioned. Are you able to help out? Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 15:52, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Only svick has access atm.Smallman12q (talk) 15:02, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Update to new houses chart desired
I'm wondering if I can interest you in bringing the graphic up to date, through the current statistics published, 2010.
-- Yellowdesk (talk) 01:26, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
DoneSmallman12q (talk) 14:53, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 19:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi- I am working on a citation for a book that is a compilation of articles and I was wondering how to cite the editors in the Wikipedia format? Thanks!Blford (talk) 01:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- @Blford, such a compilation is known as an anthology. Please see my response below to Rebeccaworrell and Jacqueline Morges, who had a similar question. Please see an example [11]. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 23:21, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi- Thank you for getting back to me. I am still confused as to how I cite an individual article in the anthology?Blford (talk) 01:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)- Hi! We just figured it out. Thanks!Blford (talk) 03:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to say hello! Looking forward to working with you! CaitlinJames (talk) 01:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am working on the "Navon Figure" page. I am planning on turning it into a page on "Global Precedence" which would have a section concerning Navon Figures. Would I have to create an entirely new page or can I change the Navon Figure page into a page called "Global Precedence"? Thanks! Linnea Ng (talk) 03:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure what you mean by "global precedence"...but if you believe that the topic is broader than Navon Figures, then you should create a new article. If you have any doubts, you can always change it later.Smallman12q (talk) 19:45, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I have a question about uploading an image... I got the image off of another Wikipedia page and edited it in "Paint." Am I allowed to upload this onto my article page? Thanks! Catherine Hare (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- If the image has a free license (if it's not a non-free image)...then yes. Be sure to indicate the source of the image as the original wikipedia image. This is known as a derivative work.Smallman12q (talk) 00:14, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! Jacqueline Morges and I have a question about citing for the Music and Emotion page we are working on. WE have a number of sources that come from an anthology, but are not sure how to properly cite them as Wikipedia does not have a template for them. For the time being, we are just making personal notes with the chapter names. What is the proper way to cite something like that? Thanks! Rebeccaworrell (talk) 17:08, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Anthologies are a bit tricky to cite. I've shown a suggested way to cite them in your sandbox. Ideally, you list the anthology, and the work within the anthology. If the source is the work, you cite the work, if the source is commentary by the anthology, you cite the anthology. You can use relevant templates. If you need more help let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 00:14, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to say hello and that I am a Davidson College student in the Cognitive Psychology course who will be working on the Embodied Cognition article. Hope you are having a wonderful day. Thanks!
Kendrick Miles (talk) 18:01, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I am one of the Davidson College students assigned to edit the article on embodied cognition. I look forward to working with you and with the wikipedia community in improving this article!
Thanks, ChelseyLandis13 (talk) 18:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm also a student from Davidson, I'll be working on the Childhood Amnesia page. Tristin Louise (talk) 20:55, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I'm working with Tristin on the Childhood Amnesia page. Thanks so much for all of your help! Sarahay (talk) 20:57, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- Hello all. I look forward to working with all of you. Hope you enjoy editing the wiki!Smallman12q (talk) 22:53, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Where should we be explaining and adding descriptions of our changes to the articles? Thanks!
Seth Kindig (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC).
- You can add a general explanation of the changes to the discussion page(if your instructor requires it). Other than that, you should be leaving small comments when editing of the changes.Smallman12q (talk) 23:21, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I have been working on the Culture in music cognition. An editor recently placed a {{wikify}} tag on the article, so I removed a lot of links and repaired some; linking is not the same here compared to wikiHow. :) Is it at the point where I can now remove the tag? Thanks! —Waterlily16 (talk) 02:38, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- You can remove the tag...however the article still needs cleanup. Some words still need to be linked like cognitive schemata to schema (psychology)...or you can create a redirect. The lead section needs some work, and you shouldn't be writing "Balkwill, Thompson, and Matsunaga (2004)" in the article...instead write, "A study at X university found...". (They are already sourced in the reference). If you want an earlier peer-review, let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 21:53, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Good to know. I will work on formatting the references like that soon. Thank you :) —Waterlily16 (talk) 00:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q,
This is SilvrWings, a graduate student at UofT's iSchool. I made a few contributions to an article ( Information Architecture ) but before I submit it for my assignment (tomorrow) I was hoping you could give it a quick look-through. I'm looking for any feedback regarding immediate eye-catching errors in article formatting (which I would like to improve but I just don't know where to begin), as well as the appropriateness of my content contribution (the "debate" section).
Thank you for your help! And for being a Wikipedia ambassador. I chose you because we both have a cognitive psychology background (I couldn't find anyone else with whom I had anything in common).
Best, SilvrWings (talk) 20:37, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hello SilvrWings, I'm not sure what kind of feedback you're soliciting. You're contribution looks okay, but should be more clear. The article needs a lot work...and it's fairly complex and abstract given that its an application of ontology. I'm not familiar with your course, or the its requirements. Do you plan to expand the article significantly, if so I can offer pointers/review?Smallman12q (talk) 23:59, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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New Global Precedence Image
Hi Smallman! We just uploaded a new image for the Global Precedence page. I'm not sure how to format it to look like the other image that was already uploaded. Please let me know! Thanks so much. JessieRoseLi (talk) 21:06, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I can't format it like the other image as arrows are unsupported, and the table look poor. I've made the image a thumb (thumbnail meaning its smaller), but it looks unwieldy as there isn't enough text to fill the section.Smallman12q (talk) 02:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Future of the US Education Program and the Ambassador Project
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Citation Question
Hello Smallman, I'm one of Dr. Munger's psych students and I'm trying to figure out how I should cite a source I found. It isn't a journal article, but it is research from the World Bank research group that has been posted online. If you could get back to me about that, it would be lovely. Thank you for your time. Tristin Louise (talk) 04:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- You could use the "master" {{citation}} template and fill out the relevant fields.Smallman12q (talk) 01:35, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
verifiable source help
Hey there, I saw one of your posts on the Invader Zim talkpage and was curious about getting Operation Head Pigeons on the article while meeting wikipedia's standards. So far for citable matters: we have a Tweet from Nickelodeon saying "Hey Zimfans, take a break from operation head pigeons and watch the invader zim marathon" which, in my ten years of fandom, is a huge deal for a revival campaign for Zim to be publically acknowledged by Nick. We also are mentioned as having a panel at Invadercon 2010 on their official website. I've asked OHP's founder to see if Nick will throw a bone and acknowledge we got "Operation: Doom" released but until then I'd love for some assistance.Gingershepherd (talk) 05:12, 22 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingershepherd (talk • contribs)
- It's a start as it's an official tweet, but it'd be nice to have something more tangible such as a press release or some 3rd party news site mentioning the shows return.Smallman12q (talk) 01:43, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Fantastic, I'll see if our founder can arrange such. Now, Invadercon is something we find worthy of being in the article as well. There's a link on the invader zim discussion page I posted about Nick execs being "overwhelmed" at Invadercon. verifiable source? it was linked on invadercon.com but that doesn't feel enough to me.Gingershepherd (talk) 02:45, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
- There's a la weekly article on the event. You could add a few sentences about the conference to either merchandise or reception. There's not enough coverage for its own section.Smallman12q (talk) 23:20, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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Feedback Dashboard
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Zim
I tremendously doubt it but is Movieviral worth its salt in anything? http://www.movieviral.com/2011/12/13/revival-campaign-for-invader-zim-gets-noticed/ Gingershepherd (talk) 23:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- That doesn't look like a reliable source. There is a mention at this reliable source of an episode appearing.Smallman12q (talk) 13:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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help with wikipedia assignment
Dear Smallman12q,
I am an instructor of Psychology and I am starting to use Wikipedia assignments for the first time this semester. I already created a course page and I have an account. However, I am relatively new to Wikipedia and I would definitely appreciate some guidance.
Thanks for your time.
S.mereu (talk) 22:05, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia. You should seek an official contact of the Wikipedia Education Program. You should leave a message at user talk:Alin (WMF). If you have any questions feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi and Happy New Year! There's some discussion at commons:Commons talk:Chris's Acorns#Depicted copyrighted works which you could probably help with. Thanks. Regarding Archive magazine, the current issue (23:3) has nothing about the upload, so I'll ask whether there are plans for a subsequent issue. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 08:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Good to be back. Hope you enjoyed your break. I plan to do some uploading tmrw. When I'm done with the upload, I'll provide you with the technical details and the source for the xaml GUI (which is nicely formatted=D). (I won't provide the C# source because its mainly a list of if-else statements involving the IHTML2 interface of MSHTML.Smallman12q (talk) 01:09, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
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Request online ambassador for course
Hi Smallman12q. I've included a wikipedia assignment in my course this semester, and I'm looking for an online mentor for the course, as I understand I'm recommended to do. The course is a graduate course in personality psychology. I contacted you because I see you have experience with a cognitive psychology course. Is this something you'd be interested in doing? William Fleeson (talk) 01:58, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sure. I've responded at your talk page: User talk:William Fleeson.Smallman12q (talk) 00:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
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Looking for Online Ambassador
Hi Smallman,
Unfortunately I don't remember if I already contacted you. If I did, I apologize for duplicates. I have included a Wikipedia assignment for my Cognitive Psychology class, and I need a second online ambassador. Please let me know if you are available.
Thanks! Stefania S.mereu (talk) 20:55, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sure. I've responded at your talk page: User_talk:S.mereu#Online_Ambassador.Smallman12q (talk) 02:18, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
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Ambassador ?
Greetings - would you be interested in serving as an ambassador for my Industrial Psychology class at Ball State University this semester? I am planning to put the students into groups of 3 or 4 to collaborate on editing an existing but relatively weak article relevant to the course content. I'll be happy to provide any more information, discuss specifics, etc. I'll watch your talk page for a reply. Thanks!Mjtagler (talk) 15:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contribution to the biobank article. Do you know about this topic? I want the article to be good and would love some advice on what needs to be included. Do you do campus ambassador stuff? I do in Seattle. Thanks for doing good work. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks! I am somewhat familiar with the topic. The article could be expanded to include economic information (revenue/profit of biobanks), in technology (automation in storage/data collection such as in assays, usage in bioinformatics), and with some statistics (growth of size in biobanks, number of biobanks, distribution, specialization, etc). I created a stub for virtual biobanks which are essentially databases, though some offer limited automated/semi-automated remote testing. I don't do campus ambassador stuff, though I am an online ambassador=P.Smallman12q (talk) 01:48, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Industrial-Organizational Psych @ BSU
Much thanks for your willingness to be an ambassador! I will be putting students into teams in approx. 1 week and assigning their articles. I will let you and the other ambassador, Bobrayner (talk · contribs) know when that occurs. There are a couple students who have yet to add their wikipedia names to the students section of the class page - I am working to get them up to speed and weeding out those who just need technological help versus those who are slackers!
Thanks again, Mjtagler (talk) 14:47, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's fine.Smallman12q (talk) 23:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
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industrial psych teams have been formed!
Hi- FYI, I put my students into their teams as shown at the industrial psych course page. The two articles with only one student are graduate students, and thus they are required to revise an entire article. All teams have been instructed to submit a report to me by class next Tuesday, where they detail their initial plans (next 2 weeks). Specifically, Once I receive these I will also have the students share this information with you and the other course ambassador. What do you think would be the best way to do that? They won't be making any actual wikipedia page edits for some time - they are tasked for now to do research on the article topic and evaluate the existing article content. Thanks! Mjtagler (talk) 20:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User_talk:Mjtagler#Inital_plans.Smallman12q (talk) 14:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
A valid link for you to look at for the project
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Hi Smallman12q! Thanks for adding the VBScript section to Wikipedia:Creating a bot and even providing a sample script! Documentation of that option was sorely lacking. 
Cheers! — madman 14:35, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- =D. VBScript isn't as touted by M$ft as it once was (neither is COM), but for simple automations of IE, its among the easiest ways to go. Also, it requires no framework download (or .dlls) for most Windows installations. I was surprised to see it wasn't listed given how popular it once was. Hopefully it'll help someone out. Cheers.Smallman12q (talk) 01:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Online Ambassador Request
Hi Smallman12q - we are indeed still looking for an Online Ambassador for the Film Theory in the Age of New Media. If you can help out, I'll add you to the course page. I should mention that the students have an assignment coming up that has them asking for feedback on article selection (Week 4). It's a graduate class of five students, so not too overwhelming :) Ycl4 (talk) 18:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded on your talk page.Smallman12q (talk) 00:44, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Class Assignment
Hello, Im making contact with you due to the fact that I need to for a class. The class is Cognitive Psychology and Our assignment is to write a Wikipedia article about something related to this subject area. Tross2 (talk) 18:18, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I can see you're somewhat dismayed of having to make contact with me=P. Have you chosen an article topic yet?Smallman12q (talk) 00:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
New User
Hello Smallman12q, My name is Brittany and I am a a student at the University of New Haven and I had to make an article for my Cognitive Psychology class. You are registered as the online ambassador for the course I am in. Bgiro1 (talk) 18:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Hello Brittany, I am indeed one of the online ambassadors (OA) for your course. Have you chosen an article topic yet?Smallman12q (talk) 00:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
introduction
Hello my name is Grace Matera, I am currently in a cognitive psychology class at the university of new haven. I am interested in learning about adolescents and how they deal with depression and how depression affects them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmate2 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 21 March 2012 (UTC) Hello my name is Grace Matera and I am a psychology st the University of New Haven. I am writing a Wikipedia article on adolescent development and how they deal with depression and how it affects them. Gmate2 (talk) 03:17, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- Hello Grace. Welcome to Wikipedia. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 13:23, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
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Work Motivation again
Can you please give me any feed back on my article? Please and thank you. Work Motivation Jastha08 (talk) 19:54, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Work_Motivation/archive1.Smallman12q (talk) 23:47, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Mechanical Aptitude
Our mechanical aptitude page was deleted by Malik Shabazz because he thought it was advertisement and we got a message saying that we cannot get it back because it will be on speedy deletion but we need to get it back for our class project and we were wondering if you could help us out or let us know what to do. Caro2012 (talk) 20:04, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's been restored and moved to User:Caro2012/Sandbox. It's currently not an article, so it can't be in the main article space. When it's expanded, you (or I) can move it back.Smallman12q (talk) 23:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Images
Thank you for your feedback on reinforcement sensitivity theory page and general course feedback. I have posted my additions on in the main space. Will you please recommend non-copyrighted images that I can find (I searched Wikimedia previously and cannot find relevant images). Thank you! Plroseman (talk) 18:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
- What kind of images are you searching for? You can make your own graphs in excel and upload them if you want.Smallman12q (talk) 00:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. My class project has officially finished, but I'd be willing to help out Armsbf11 if I can! As I said to her/him, I fully support a unique page for the Big Five facets... Matthew.murdoch (talk) 17:51, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
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- Probably not on the enwiki, but definitely on the commons.Smallman12q (talk) 23:39, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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Dimensional models of personality disorders - criticisms
Hi Smallman, I've been looking up some criticisms of dimensional models of personality disorders (the approach as a whole, not any specific model), and I was just wondering how I should go about structuring my article. You said that each section should probably have its own criticism sub-section, so where in the article should I put criticism of the whole approach? I would assume I should do it at the end, but I feel like the "contents" section would then look kind of weird:
4 DSM-V
- 4.1 Criticism
5 Criticism
Is that sort of thing (aesthetic appeal) even something I should take into consideration, or should I just ignore it possibly looking awkward/redundant? Thanks! Allexe11 (talk) 02:32, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- You're right it does look a little weird, but that's fine. If the criticism is short, you may remove the section title, and simply include at the end of the previous section (as in DSM-V). If the criticism is substantial, it should get its own section. If you have criticism about the approach in general, you can make a section at the end for it. You should also add some content for history, and how models are developed.Smallman12q (talk) 12:02, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Ambassador program - Mechanical Aptitude
Hiyas there Smallman12q,
Yesterday i came across the article Mechanical Aptitude, which is currently being worked on as part of the Industrial Psychology course for which you are listed as one of the ambassadors. The article needed a histmerge (which is now fixed), but afterwards i noticed that the " Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude" section is almost entirely a literal word-for-word copy of the source. I didn't have the time to do a complete check, but a few Google searches on the rest of the content makes me suspect it is mostly minor rewording from other sources.
I'm afraid i lack sufficient editing time lately, so if i were to action this with a comment to the users or similar i'd be very likely to miss the response for some time. Any chance you could have a look? Thanks in advance! Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 12:48, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've notified the professor at User_talk:Mjtagler#Mechanical_aptitude_text. Good catch, and thanks for the heads up!Smallman12q (talk) 23:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Adding images to entries
Hi Smallman12q,
I was wondering what the Wikipedia rules are for citing an image I did not create? I wanted to add a cartoon that I found online to my page (Door-in-the-face technique) but I'm not sure whether that is allowed/how to do it. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Kendrick Miles (talk) 01:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, most cartoons are copyrighted, and thus can't be used in Wikipedia. If it doesn't appear to be copyrighted, post the link, and I'll upload it for you.Smallman12q (talk) 12:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Davidson Class meet and greet
Hi--
We're getting started on the project. Two students were in the cognitive class from the fall, and then I think the rest are all very new to Wikipedia. Thanks in advance for all you help! Greta Munger (talk) 14:56, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- =) Look forward to working with you again.Smallman12q (talk) 23:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a Davidson student starting to work on this class project. Just wanted to introduce myself! SarDavis (talk) 01:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Smallman12q! Happy to be working with you on this exciting new project, thank you in advance for your patience! Laura Renaud (talk) 04:05, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to introduce myself to you too. Thanks for working with us. Cjchaney402 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 4 April 2012 (UTC).
Hi! I'm also a student in Dr. Munger's class and thank you so much for helping us! mobell2012 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:41, 4 April 2012 (UTC).
Hi! I too am grateful for your help and patience. Sarah E. Daniels (talk) 19:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q! Just wanted to say hello and thanks in advance for your help. I was in Cognitive Psychology last semester and edited the page on embodied cognition, so I'm looking forward to working on another one! Kendrick Miles (talk) 21:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q! I am so looking forward to beginning our project, and thank you in advance for all of the help you will be giving us! --Anna B. Smith (talk) 01:31, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hello everyone! Welcome to the other side of Wikipedia. Hopefully you'll enjoy editing the wiki as much as you do reading it=D.Smallman12q (talk) 23:22, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Smallman12q, hope you are doing well and thank you for working with our class! (Jataylor90 (talk) 02:25, 7 April 2012 (UTC))
Howdy Smallman12q, thank you for helping with our class assignment.Dowiggins (talk) 16:43, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q, I'm excited to make my first contribution to Wikipedia scholarship. I've posted a tentative list of sources to augment the impression formation page along with a brief outline. Look forward to working with you. Thanks for your help! (Saplumer (talk) 12:30, 20 April 2012 (UTC))
Dr. Munger's Class - Question
Hi, I'm in Dr. Munger's psychology class, editing the Insight wiki page. I have a question about pictures in Wikipedia.. Are we allowed to use pictures from other sources, as long as they are cited? Or do we need to make the pictures ourselves? Thanks for your help! Dana Westerkam (talk) 14:21, 19 April 2012 (UTC)Dana Westerkam
Nevermind! I read some of your talk page, and it seems creating my own images in excel is fair game. Also, I can only add non-copyrighted images to the page! Sorry about that! Should have done my research first.Dana Westerkam (talk) 14:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)Dana Westerkam
Hello, I haven't added my pictures yet, but I've begun editing the psychology section of the insight page if you have any suggestions, whenever you get a free moment! Thanks! Dana Westerkam (talk) 04:43, 20 April 2012 (UTC)Dana Westerkam
- It's a very good draft. Well-sourced, properly divided sections, and well-written. It needs some more blue wikilinks, but overall looks good. You should also add a history section. Also, when referencing books, you need to provide page numbers. I'll edit it this weekend.Smallman12q (talk) 11:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the help and feedback! I will make those edits soon! Dana Westerkam (talk)
Wake Forest Class meet and Greet
Hi! I'm a member of Will Fleeson's graduate personality class, so I'm here to just introduce myself! Thanks for anything you can help up with. Moonpe11 (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia!Smallman12q (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey. My name is Ben. I'm in Will's personality class, and I just want to introduce myself. I'm a psychology graduate student and I'm also interested in computer science, so we may have a common interest there. Do you do any programming? Armsbf11 (talk) 18:22, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia Ben. I can program in several languages including: ANSI C++, .net 4 (C#/VB) and PHP5.2, though my programming contributions are mainly on stackoverflow. I'm also familiar with web browsers and web technologies since the Mosaic days. Cheers!Smallman12q (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Very cool. I've been working in PHP and done some python and smidge of ruby. I've gotten a lot of solid advice and info from stackoverflow.
Hi there! As you know, we're going to be posting or editing articles on Wiki for our personality psychology class. I've posted three ideas on my talk page under the section "Potential Wiki Articles." I'd love to have some feedback when you get the chance - that might help me pick a good topic to contribute. Thanks for your help with this! -Brett Majobc11 (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Majobc11.Smallman12q (talk) 13:46, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I have some article ideas that I'd like you to look at too, if you wouldn't mind. I posted them on my talk page under "Article Ideas!". I too would enjoy your feedback. Thanks in advance. -Ben Armsbf11 (talk) 01:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Armsbf11.Smallman12q (talk) 13:46, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've written back to you on my talk page about your comments and the article that I'm leaning toward. Armsbf11 (talk) 18:58, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Armsbf11.Smallman12q (talk) 22:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've written back to you on my talk page about your comments and the article that I'm leaning toward. Armsbf11 (talk) 18:58, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello again! I too have some article ideas, if you have the time to take a look? They're at user:carps11/sandbox. I'd really appreciate any feedback you have for me! Thanks so much. Carps11 (talk) 16:11, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Carps11.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I'm Melissa i posted some possible topics on my page. Could you please give me you opinion?Msbeaulieu (talk) 16:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Msbeaulieu.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I've also got some topics for you to check out when you get the chance (looks like I'm pretty far back in the line though). I'll just post them here: Heritability of personality traits. Trends in development of personality traits. Personality traits predictability of life outcomes. Thanks! Moonpe11 (talk) 17:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Moonpe11.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Alicia, and I would also love your feedback if you get the chance. My topics are: Moral Personality, Density Distributions, The Honesty/Humility factor of the HEXACO, and Moral Discounting. Thanks for your help! Abj89 (talk) 17:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at User talk:Abj89.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q, our assignment for class this week is to find a page to critique and make suggestions to. I posted in the talk page of the Dopamine receptor D4, could you please tell me if my suggestion is appropriate, and if I used the correct formatting? Also, how do I link to other Wiki pages, like if I would like to link you directly to the page I posted on? Thank you!! Linp11 (talk) 15:56, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- To link to another page on the wiki, you use [[Talk:Dopamine receptor D4]] to give Talk:Dopamine receptor D4 or [[Talk:Dopamine receptor D4|go here]] for go here. See Wikipedia:Cheatsheet. I've responded at the article's talk page.Smallman12q (talk) 21:19, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q, my name is Paige and I too would appreciate feedback on expanding/revising the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory to include origin, evolution, critique and revisals, and current applications. Here is a link to my sandbox with the details: User:Plroseman/sandbox. Thank you very much for your feedback. Plroseman (talk) 18:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at Talk:Reinforcement sensitivity theory.Smallman12q (talk) 00:25, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Reviews
Hey Smallman12q, I was wondering if you could take a look at my "rough draft" for my wiki article entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Moonpe11/sandbox). It needs a lot of work, but I think the frame of it is pretty solid. Just let me know. And thanks again for helping us out so much with our class project (I know it must be time consuming to read over and edit all this stuff)! Moonpe11 (talk) 14:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a bit far down the page, underneath the heading "Personality traits and life outcomes." Moonpe11 (talk) 14:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's an excellent start. Well-sourced, wikilinked, and coherent. Wikipedia articles aren't essays, so you should rework the "in addition" and "lastly". Are you going to expand the article into sections?Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, awesome! Thanks for the tips. Haha, I'm writing like that ("in addition") is out of habit I guess. And I probably will break it up into sections eventually, once I do a little more research on the topic. I tried to set it up so I can break up into sections fairly easily if I need to. Again, thanks for the input! Moonpe11 (talk) 18:13, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's an excellent start. Well-sourced, wikilinked, and coherent. Wikipedia articles aren't essays, so you should rework the "in addition" and "lastly". Are you going to expand the article into sections?Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I asked you to tell me what you thought a few weeks ago about my potential topics and have chosen the personality distribution topic. I have written a tentative summary in my sandbox. can you please look at it when you get a chance and tell me what you think? Msbeaulieu (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. You should add more wikilinks and references. Also, you should break it into paragraphs/sections so I can provide a better review.Smallman12q (talk) 00:40, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I have also written a summary/rough draft of my article, and was wondering if you could take a look at it to make sure it doesn't have any glaring errors? The article is in my sandbox, under "Dimensional approach to personality disorders". Thanks! Allexe11 (talk) 21:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. It needs more wikilinking (more of the blue links in the article). The first paragraph needs references. This sentence: "Following from these claims, it is suggested that diagnosis and characterization of personality disorders should not be based on a "checklist" of symptoms, but instead should be based on the degree to which a person shows a particular personality characteristic." is in the wrong tone. Who suggests? Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q, could you also please take a look at my article's rough draft? Mine is also located in my sandbox, under the Person-Situation Debate header. Any tips/advice greatly welcomed! Thank you Linp11 (talk) 18:53, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. It needs more wikilinking. Some of the article such as "Mischel's book raised important questions about trait concepts and measures in psychological research. Kenrick and Funder note that controversy is beneficial to scientific research because it helps narrow down competing hypotheses." should be rephrased.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I too have written a summary draft of my article. Would you mind taking a look at mine as well? It's in my sandbox as is the only thing in there. Armsbf11 (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. You need to add wikilinks. It needs a little copyediting, but otherwise is fine.Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I've also written a small rough draft for my article. Mine is on how personality changes through a life span. Any feedback you could give would be helpful. It's in my sandbox. I'm having a problem with my citations, though. I have cited the same article in 2 different places. I thought it would add the same footnote as the previous time I cited it. Is that misguided? Right now, the same citation shows up twice on my references list. Is it possible to get rid of that? Desasu11 (talk) 23:51, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- I've corrected the citation. You have to name the reference. See the difference. The article is not structured properly. The first sentence "When talking about consistency of personality and whether or not it changes in the lifetime there are four different types of consistency:" should instead read somewhat as follows: "The consistency of personality refers to the the amount of change that someone's personality undergoes over their lifetime. In personality psychology there are four types of consistencies: "intra-individual differences", "Ipsative", "Mean-level", "Rank-order"."Smallman12q (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I too have written a brief summary for my article in my sandbox about how people determine others' personalities. I appreciate any feedback you have to offer. Thank you so much! Whitmb11 (talk) 18:56, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. You should not use words like "generally", "typically"...see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch. You need to add some wiki links (blue links). See my response to Desau11 above for how to properly reuse the same reference. You can generate automatic citations from a DOI at http://reftag.appspot.com/doiweb.py .Otherwise, it looks like a good start.Smallman12q (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Smallman12q, I have a couple of questions. First of all, is it standard for psychology pages on Wikipedia to abide by the medical referencing standards? I can't find any page that links medical referencing to psychology articles, and I notice that most other psychology articles do not abide by those guidelines. However, personality judgment has been tagged as needing to implement medical referencing, amongst other things. Also, I was wondering what the policy was for removing articles from DYK nomination and closing the nomination. Discussion on personality judgment has become stagnant, and I was wondering if it would be acceptable for me to just close the nomination? I don't want to do that if it is against guidelines. Thank you so much for your help! Whitmb11 (talk) 21:21, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- The policy is Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). Personality judgement isn't really a medical article per se. The concern is that you're using an old article from 1995, and before, but the way its used appears fine. You can withdraw a DYK by simply add a comment, that "DYK nomination withdrawn." If you have any other questions let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 22:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your help! Personality judgment has also been tagged with COI due to my being involved in a personality course- will this be removed after the discussion on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents page has been completed? If it is decided that the tag was misused? Thanks! Whitmb11 (talk) 04:02, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
- The tag was misused, and has been removed. Cheers.Smallman12q (talk) 11:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your help! Personality judgment has also been tagged with COI due to my being involved in a personality course- will this be removed after the discussion on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents page has been completed? If it is decided that the tag was misused? Thanks! Whitmb11 (talk) 04:02, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
AFD
Hi Smallman - there is a particular user who has reviewed many of the DYKs for our articles. Most people have not addressed the concerns yet, but I assume everyone will be doing so within the following week. I tried to respond to the concerns by editing my article, and after doing so asked if they could let me know if there were any additional issues that should be addressed. The result was that my article is now being nominated for deletion. This user has also posted on our class page criticizing us for our DYK nominations and not responding to feedback fast enough. I understand the argument that our articles may not have really been ready for DYK; however, I am wondering if this user is justified in their criticisms of our articles, the timeliness of our responses, and the suggested deletion of my page after I tried to make the appropriate changes. It seems to me this person is being unusually harsh on us and is violating the etiquette rule of "don't bite the newbies". Since we are still learning about contributing to Wikipedia, I was just wondering if this person is correct in their criticisms and we are going about things wrong, and if this is normal for interactions between contributors (especially new contributors) and reviewers. Thanks for your help. Allexe11 (talk) 18:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- Also, regarding my article's nomination for deletion, is there any recourse I can take? Am I allowed to argue for why my article should be kept? I thought I had addressed the issues brought up in my DYK nomination (which were again brought up in the deletion nomination), but apparently either I didn't do it correctly, or I didn't do it well enough. Do you think my article is eligible to try to be rescued? Is there anything further I can do to prevent it from being deleted? Thanks again for your help. Allexe11 (talk) 19:47, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's a bit unfortunate the article is being dragged to AFD(articles for deletion) needlessly. You are welcome to comment at the AFD, and its unlikely the article will be deleted. The person is somewhat rude in the way they've dragged this to AFD on notability grounds...though AFD is a normal process. You can see other current AFD discussions at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Current_discussions. Some people on the wiki are a little less newbie friendly than others...it creates drama...but that's how life goes. I'll go through the DYK nominations this week myself and see what should be done. Don't worry too much about the AFD, it's part of the wiki experience (though it's generally for more experienced users)...the article topic is notable, so the article most likely won't be deleted. It's also possible that there is a misunderstanding as to what the topic reflects...a more accurate title would be Dimensional models of personality disorders Smallman12q (talk) 00:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for your help! I will do my best to explain myself at the AFD page, as well as to edit the article to better fit the standards. I plan to ask this at the AFD page, but do you have any suggestions on how I could improve notability, make the tone more encyclopedic, etc? Also, I do agree that the article title should be changed - is it ok to do this while the article is still under review, or should I wait until the review process is finished? Again, thanks so much for all your advice and help! Allexe11 (talk) 02:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Really appreciate your attention to this matter, Smallman12q. I'm hoping that my students come back in the future for more Wikipedia editing. William Fleeson (talk) 02:26, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've moved the article to Dimensional models of personality disorders. You are welcome to improve the article while its being reviewed. A number of AFD nominations are withdrawn following improvements. WP:BEBOLD. You should add a history section, and a comparison section. You should ask your professor what else should be covered...I'll review the article more thoroughly later this week. Some AFDs can become very lengthy, such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional supercouples though ultimately the article is kept. There will be other wikipedians who will comment. AFDs are contentious... Happy to help out and I also hope that the students will gain the know-how on how to contribute.Smallman12q (talk) 02:32, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you again for you help on this, I really appreciate it. I'll work on expanding the article more throughout the week, and hopefully that will help with the notability issues. Allexe11 (talk) 04:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've reworked the intro (if I misunderstand the topic, let me know). I've also added some sections which you should 'fill in' with the appropriate info. You need to add more about the dimensional approach itself, and how it's being handled in DSM-V. There is a lot of literature on this topic...so don't worry about the AFD. Hope this helps.Smallman12q (talk)
- Hi, I have another question, regarding my DYK nomination in relation to the AFD. Should I still respond to the issues brought up in my DYK review? Since the same person reviewed my DYK and also nominated the article for deletion, I'm assuming that responding at the DYK when I've made the appropriate changes won't really do any good. Is there any point in doing so, or should I just focus on the issues brought up in AFD? Thanks again. Allexe11 (talk) 04:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've reworked the intro (if I misunderstand the topic, let me know). I've also added some sections which you should 'fill in' with the appropriate info. You need to add more about the dimensional approach itself, and how it's being handled in DSM-V. There is a lot of literature on this topic...so don't worry about the AFD. Hope this helps.Smallman12q (talk)
- Thank you again for you help on this, I really appreciate it. I'll work on expanding the article more throughout the week, and hopefully that will help with the notability issues. Allexe11 (talk) 04:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've moved the article to Dimensional models of personality disorders. You are welcome to improve the article while its being reviewed. A number of AFD nominations are withdrawn following improvements. WP:BEBOLD. You should add a history section, and a comparison section. You should ask your professor what else should be covered...I'll review the article more thoroughly later this week. Some AFDs can become very lengthy, such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional supercouples though ultimately the article is kept. There will be other wikipedians who will comment. AFDs are contentious... Happy to help out and I also hope that the students will gain the know-how on how to contribute.Smallman12q (talk) 02:32, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's a bit unfortunate the article is being dragged to AFD(articles for deletion) needlessly. You are welcome to comment at the AFD, and its unlikely the article will be deleted. The person is somewhat rude in the way they've dragged this to AFD on notability grounds...though AFD is a normal process. You can see other current AFD discussions at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Current_discussions. Some people on the wiki are a little less newbie friendly than others...it creates drama...but that's how life goes. I'll go through the DYK nominations this week myself and see what should be done. Don't worry too much about the AFD, it's part of the wiki experience (though it's generally for more experienced users)...the article topic is notable, so the article most likely won't be deleted. It's also possible that there is a misunderstanding as to what the topic reflects...a more accurate title would be Dimensional models of personality disorders Smallman12q (talk) 00:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
The points brought up in the DYK review are still valid. The lead still does not summarize the article. Also there should be more discussion on the topic of dimensional models as a whole, and not just the individual models. While the article is at AFD, it is on hold at DYK.Smallman12q (talk) 10:30, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the update, much appreciated. William Fleeson (talk) 22:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Editing
Hey Smallman, I moved my page to the main space, but it's unsearchable and it has this error at the top, "This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the User sandbox template." I went in and deleted the user:sandbox thing that was at the top but the error is still there. Any ideas? Moonpe11 (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
- Scratch that, I figured it out. Moonpe11 (talk) 15:47, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've left comments at Talk:Personality_and_life_outcomes.Smallman12q (talk) 01:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Smallman. I was just doing some copyediting and getting ready to move my page out of my sandbox when I noticed that a similar article had recently been posted: Facet_(psychology). What should I do? The content and structure are very similar. What's the protocol here? Can I put up a page that's similar? Should I try to merge my content with the existing content? Help. Armsbf11 (talk) 21:54, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
- You normally merge the content. Interestingly, it seems that the main editor of the article, User:Matthew.murdoch, is part of Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/Contemporary Research in Personality (John Zelenski)/Articles and is editing the topic for their class project=P. You normally merge the content, but in this case, you may need to ask your professor what they want you to do. Perhaps you can collaborate with the User:Matthew.murdoch. I'll ask other ambassadors what should be done.Smallman12q (talk) 01:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- I noticed that there is another course, Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Research in Personality (MaryBeth McGavran), that might also be putting up articles right about now. I can't find on the other professors' pages where the students list their articles -- identifying overlap at this point would be a good start. By the way, John Zelenski is a friend of mine, so this is a fun coincidence. I'm awaiting the results of your investigations with other ambassadors.William Fleeson (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've spoken with a few ambassadors and the suggestion has been, where possible the students should collaborate....thats the point of a wiki...to enable collaboration. They can merge their contributions. The students can ask one another on their user talk pages (or in real life/skype/IM/etc if they desire). I've looked at Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Research in Personality (MaryBeth McGavran)/Articles and the articles aren't listed yet...though the syllabus says they're due 4/9. I've asked the course's professor, User:Psy430uk, when the articles are to be listed. If the student has not yet started the topic, they should select a different one, if that's what the professor prefers. A more dedicated interface is under development at wmflabs and should be ready by next semester, which should help avoid such editing conflicts. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 00:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
- I noticed that there is another course, Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Research in Personality (MaryBeth McGavran), that might also be putting up articles right about now. I can't find on the other professors' pages where the students list their articles -- identifying overlap at this point would be a good start. By the way, John Zelenski is a friend of mine, so this is a fun coincidence. I'm awaiting the results of your investigations with other ambassadors.William Fleeson (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman, I moved my page on Relationship Contingent Self-Esteem to the main space and am working on a "first final draft." I was wondering if you could take a look at it Relationship Contingent Self-Esteem and let me know if there are changes I should make. Even a cursory look and comment would be helpful. Thank you! Velvsop (talk) 23:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's a pretty good draft. You need to add wikilinks (it needs to link to other articles). You should also update the references to use reference names so that the same reference is not listed multiple times (See User:Smallman12q/Reference example). A section header such as "Approval sex motives in women" without another one for males is viewed as biased/undue weight. There's a lot of use of "women", but not "men"=P. The healthy alternative portion that defines the approach is not sourced. You can use the same source multiple times...referenced material is much better than non-referenced material. Some of the grammar should be cleaned up...but that's usually done at the end.Smallman12q (talk) 21:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Ambassador Program, Film Theory in the Age of New Media
My page for class
Hi!
I just finished my first ever Wikipedia page for class, and I was hoping you might give me some feedback.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_film
Thanks so much!
-Zachary Allard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zac.allard (talk • contribs) 21:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
- It looks good for a first article. I've fixed the references...in the future, use citation templates, and reference names. Some of the style is essay-like such as "Lastly but, by no means comprehensively,"...this should be fixed. It should have a criticism section or some explicit criticism to be neutral. If you need more feedback, let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 23:53, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
References/Bibliography
Hi Smallman12q!
Could you comment on the structure of References/Bibliographies used in this student's working article? Would it be better to have just a list of References with multiple citations for each rather than page numbers that refer to the Bibliography? Ycl4 (talk) 21:22, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
- Page numbers are the proper way to do it (so they're doing it correctly now). (For example, see featured article Edmund Evans which uses page numbers.) What they should do though, is use reference names so that the same reference won't appear 10 times. See User:Smallman12q/Reference example and WP:NAMEDREFS for how to use named references. If you have any questions feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 23:54, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q! My name is Ani and I am a student at Georgetown. I just finished my first ever wikipedia article on travelogues for my film theory class. Since I am so new to Wikipedia, could you take a look at it and give me some feed back? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelogue_(films)#Modern_Day Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okkasian13 (talk • contribs) 20:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
- It's a good start. You should use Wikipedia style referencing. See User:Smallman12q/Reference example and WP:INCITE for how to use references. You should also add a few more links such as for lantern slides and a few more notable/successful travelogues. Some assertions need references such as "Travelogues have been a popular source of fundraising for local, non-profit community-service organizations, such as Kiwanis, Lions clubs and Rotary clubs, among others, with many such clubs hosting travelogue series for decades." If you have any questions feel free to ask. Smallman12q (talk) 22:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Hammack HDD video is pretty good but I don't think it belongs in the lede and I'm not sure it should be in an article since about half way thru it I saw what appeared to be an advertisement. I don't have time to edit any ads out of the video, but I am going to move it into the article to a point where I think it is more appropriate. Tom94022 (talk) 15:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
- There's no relation between me and Hammack. I've seen that several of his videos do provide a good overview of certain topics so I've added them to the articles. Being lazy, I took the BRD approach, so if you don't believe a video belongs, feel free to move it around or remove it. Some articles lack animation/video, so these may be helpful. (Also, in Hammack's defense, I emailed Hammack, and he stated that he doesn't add videos to avoid a COI).Smallman12q (talk) 18:42, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hey, Smallman! If you have some time to review the quality of some articles, we're using the results for a really important research project that will help shape the future of the US/Canada Education Program. For a few projects, we're on a pretty tight timeline and are really eager to have many more of these articles reviewed over the next week. However, we think it's most useful to come from experienced Wikipedia editors.
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Hi. I hope things are going well with you. Regarding #Commons:Batch_uploading/Chris's_Acorns, are there some more images waiting, or do you think that's the lot? Thanks very much. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 20:17, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
- Hey. Sorry I didn't notice your note above. Well there are ~1k more to go, but the pages are formatted differently so I need to write a slightly different parser. I've been busy in rl, but I plan to finish this and several other batch uploads in early July. Thanks for the reminder, and apologies for the delay.Smallman12q (talk) 00:36, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
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- Great article — would hope to see it as the Main Page featured article one day.—A bit iffy (talk) 05:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'd like to see it through FA though it needs a lot of work to get there. I was surprised to see the wiki lacked the article.Smallman12q (talk) 13:06, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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Fall 2012 Online Ambassador Program
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Just trying to update the census for Online Ambassadors this coming term. If you're still planning to work with a class in the US and Canada Education Program this Fall, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. I hope you're still interested in supporting these students for the coming term; you got really great feedback last semester from the many classes with whom you worked! Thanks for everything! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:39, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm an instructor for Brain and Behavior at Roosevelt University, and my students will be editing existing Wikipedia articles as part of a class project this Fall. I and my students are newbies. I've completed the trainig at [[12]]. I'm wondering if you might be one of our class's online ambassadors? I've constructed most of my course page at [[13]]. I anticipate that we'll need your help with questions about editing and making sure that we're all complying with Wikipedia guidelines. It would also be great if you could read some of the students' articles and provide feedback. Please let me know if you're able to help out. Thanks! Neuropsychprof (talk) 20:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, I would love to have you as an OA for my Brain and Behavior course. Thank you for making time out of your busy schedule! Neuropsychprof (talk) 13:41, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I've been thinking about editing some pages so I'll have some experience. Thanks for the reminder! Neuropsychprof (talk) 05:28, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- I just added a sentence to the bipolar disorders article. Do you mind taking a look to make sure my in-text citation and reference are ok? I used the "cite" template. Thanks! Neuropsychprof (talk) 06:05, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I've been thinking about editing some pages so I'll have some experience. Thanks for the reminder! Neuropsychprof (talk) 05:28, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you would be willing to serve as an online ambassador to my course, Cognition. I noticed that you have been an online ambassador for Cognitive Psychology courses previously, and was wondering if you would be willing to do that for my course as well. The course is during the Fall 2012 semester, and has 20 upper division undergraduate psychology students enrolled. If you are not able to, I understand. I appreciate your consideration. Thank you. Jbboron (talk) 20:52, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Great, thank you very much. As you mentioned [[14]] I will work on the getting my course page created, and update you once it's ready.I appreciate your willingness to help. Sincerely, Jbboron (talk) 03:50, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Cognition lab
Hi Smallman12q, I have created my course page as you suggested Cognition Lab, Dr. Julie Boron. I also have specific due dates for each part of the assignment. All students must create an account by September 6, and the project completion date is December 6. When you have a chance, let me know what you think of the page. I can add a detailed timeline if that would be helpful, as well as resource links. I appreciate your help. Please let me know if there is anything I should do in the mean time as well. Thank you! Jbboron (talk) 00:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Smallman, I've updated my course timeline, including assignment dates and plans for the course. Thank you very much for the base timeline, that was very helpful, and such a great resource. If you have a chance, could you take a look at my edits, and let me know what you think. Thank you! Jbboron (talk) 20:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
- I see you've updated the timeline. Looks good. I added "Note the article's structure, tone, and coverage of the topic." to Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Cognition_Lab_(Dr._Julie_Boron)/Timeline#Week_3_.28September_6.29:_Exploring_the_topic_area. A lot of times, new editors have trouble adjusting to the format and style of writing an article, but it becomes straight-forward once you see the difference. I've also added a link to [[See Wikipedia:Training/For students which contains an outline of the basics. If you have further questions, feel free to ask me here or by email (I sent you one). Cheers.Smallman12q (talk) 01:16, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #22
- Development
- Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less)
- Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed
- Wrote Selenium tests for client-code
- Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again
- Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields
- Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should
- Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review)
- Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values
- Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
- Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages
- Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression)
- Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc.
- Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items
- Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary
- Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages
- Updated demo system
- The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive
- Discussions/Press
- Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta
- Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata
- Events
- State of the Map
- Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
- upcoming: Software Freedom Day
- Open Tasks for You
Davidson class meet & greet
Hi Small, I thought I'd start a section where my students could come and say hello! Greta Munger (talk) 15:41, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
- That's fine. Welcome all, to the other side of Wikipedia=D.Smallman12q (talk) 16:43, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman12q, I am Nathalya Cubas and will be taking Dr. Munger's course this semester. Nathalya Cubas (talk) 17:17, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hello, and welcome to the editing side of Wikipedia.Smallman12q (talk) 20:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smallman! I'm Alex and will also be working with the course this year. looking forward to it. --Alex Wyse (talk) 22:50, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello Smallman12q! My name is Katie Ramseur. Great to meet you. KatieRamseur (talk) 20:56, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am Olivia-Grace and I am also in Dr. Munger's course this semester! Olivia Morrison (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Hi Smallman! I saw the addition you made to the student training, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to just leave you a message and let you know that you're awesome.
Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 01:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks!Smallman12q (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #24
- Development
- Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 of Wikidata
- Updated demo system (the corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018)
- Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts
- Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word
- Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated when the connecting link got removed or changed)
- Windows support for pollForChanges-Script
- New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities
- Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work
- The API is generalized to handle additional entities
- Created initial DataType implementation
- Created store for the client
- Improved and extended store for the repository
- Started on initial DataValue implementation
- Wrote tests for client
- Fixed localization bugs
- Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field
- Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces
- Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model
- Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions about the content model of the main namespace in several places
- Discussions/Press
- Several questions/suggestions on m:Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
- More additions to m:Wikidata/Preventing unwanted edits, m:Wikidata/Notes/Future and m:Wikidata/Data collaborators
- Deployment/code review discussions with the Foundation
- Events
- Software Freedom Day
- upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE
- upcoming: Datengarten
- Open Tasks for You
- m:Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation
- Hack on all the tasks and bugs
Wikidata weekly summary #25
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items this applies for the combination of label and description.)
- Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
- Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
- Added resource module for loading site information
- Improved change handling on the client, including when items are deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the client’s recent changes (still rough)
- New "List all datatypes" Special page
- Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
- Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to entities and item to entity
- Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit token from action=tokens instead)
- Some cleanup for the security audit
- Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
- Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
- Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
- Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being reviewed by WMF (current review status)
- Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and visible online
- Discussions/Press
- JSON for phase 2
- Concept for entity selection widget
- Events
- Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
- Datengarten
- upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
- upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
- upcoming: Data Days
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well in advance please so it reaches you in time.
- We have a shiny new contribute page
- Open Tasks for You
- Help update the press page
- Pick one of the open coding tasks
Wikidata weekly summary #26
- Development
- Added various new DataValue classes
- Worked on ‘edit’ buttons for non-JavaScript version of entity views
- Worked on resourceloader module for sites
- Tests for PropertyView and CreateProperty
- Tests for Uniqueness of Properties & Items
- Tests for propagation of Item deletion/undeletion to client wiki
- Tests for change propagation to Watchlists on client wiki
- HTML validation results for Wikibase are now online
- Special:CreateProperty is renamed to Special:NewProperty, to avoid naming conflicts in translatewiki with other extensions
- Work on scripts for rebuilding and resetting data stores in the client
- The client now handles when an item gets deleted on the repository
- Wrote fixes for security concerns raised during review by WMF
- Working on Wikidata branch in preparation of merging it into core/master soon.
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
- Open Source Meetup Berlin
- Data Days
- upcoming: KESW (keynote by Markus Krötzsch)
- upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First 6 months of Wikidata are over!
- Great pictures and videos taken at the MediaWiki Hackathon in Berlin earlier this year
- You can follow all Wikidata bug reports by subscribing to the Wikidata bugs mailinglist
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Test some of the less common things you do on Wikipedia on the test repository and report bugs if you find anything that’s not working as it should