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Hello, Affan Musa, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:50, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Where to write

Moved from User talk:Shalor (Wiki Ed) § Need help request from Affan Musa (talk)

In response to your question about where to write, here are some of the different possibilities:

• A good choice for any student editor, is their User sandbox. Yours is here: User:Affan_Musa/sandbox. I believe the Wiki Education program recommends this option.
• Another possibility is as a User subpage. If you think of your userpage User:Affan_Musa as the top of a pyramid, you can create a whole hierarchy of subpages under it. If you are creating an organized taxonomy of related new articles, this would be an ideal solution.
• You can use Wikipedia's Draft space. This can be okay for creation of a draft of a brand new articles, but is not a good choice for improving articles that already exist.

As far as "Talk pages", there are two main kinds you need to be concerned with:

• article talk pages, which are pages where Wikipedia editors have discussions and talk about how best to improve the content of an article; and
• user talk pages, like this one, where users communicate among one another about general principles of editing, questions & answers, user behavior, and other things.

Hope this helps! Mathglot (talk) 04:55, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

• Hi Affan Musa! If you go to the home tab on your class's Dashboard, you should see a "My Articles" section. Since you have an article assigned to you, you should see a section entitled "Articles I'm updating". The title of your article, Sheri Graner Ray, should show up and be followed by this information:

1. Sandbox Draft
2. Article

Clicking on the sandbox draft link will bring up an empty draft page at User:Affan Musa/Sheri Graner Ray, which you can use as a draft space. You should also see some checklists that will help you work through the process of creating an article. I've actually gone ahead and created a copy of the live article for you, so you can work on improving it. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:35, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Com 232- Work Plan

My work plan for my assigned article is as clear and straightforward as Wikipedia and this class insists on. As learned in class and in the training modules, when it comes to Wikipedia, we have to review, evaluate, research, and edit to the best of our abilities in order to create the best, and most reliable article the subject of matter could give. With that said, our first step towards any article on Wikipedia, regardless of where it lies, should be review and evaluation. My assigned article, Sheri Graner Ray, is first off, an exceptionally weak article judging based on its short information and nonreliable sources. The first source or reference listed on the external links section is the main subject’s personal website. As we learned in class, one of the least reliable sources a biographic article could contain is the person’s personal webpage. Also, to add on top of that, the video assigned by Professor Mandiberg- the CRAAP test- which stands for Currency, Reliability, Authority, Authenticity, and Purpose, gives us insight on how to evaluate websites. To get straight to the point, in the Authority segment it states that if a website’s address ends in any other than .gov (governmental website) or .edu (higher institutional or educational website), it is less reliable and must be verified before usage. With that being said, I have checked out Sheri’s website, and it is clear that it is published by her, as she refers to herself in the blog posts. Another aspect we touched on in class and that is also mentioned in the CRAAP test is Currency. Sheri’s website was last updated in 2017. Now, this might and might not be an issue. I haven’t done enough research to see if anything might be outdated. Wherever I did find out from a few other sources that Sheri has worked in Schell Games which was not mentioned in the Wikipedia article. Regarding the overall article, based on structure and components, I don’t think it is well laid out. Again, as taught in class and on wiki, we need a simple and effective format and a lead to draw the reader in. Aside from being a weak and distinctively short article, it has a weak structure and form. The lead or headline is either nonexistent, meaning it was not intentionally created for that purpose, or it is way too long and saturated. A lead should be short and only composed of the main and most important information of the article. In Sheri’s article, that first paragraph is half of the article in size. It contains just as much information or content on the author as the next paragraph. The article in all has two paragraphs and a concluding sentence. It clearly needs advancement. In conclusion, I generally need to find more information on Sheri Graner Ray, I need to research more and add more content on her Wikipedia article. As wikipedians we are obligated to remove unreliable sources or content, but we were held back from doing so from our professor. Therefore, I will try to improve Sheri’s article to the best of my ability by adding more purposeful content with more reliable sources and references.

Affan Musa This is a substantial workplan, though you could add more detail -- see for example this Work Plan. Please do the same with the annotated link list! Please see this fellow student's work for a good example. --Theredproject (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Affan Musa I'm not seeing any progress since my last comment. Where is your annotated bibliography, and 1000 words added to the article? Feel free to email me if you have questions. --Theredproject (talk) 22:51, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Also, Next step is to peer review one of your classmate’s articles. Like your own, these will be on their sandbox pages. You should be able to see who is assigned each article on the Assigned Articles tab, so click on their username to find their sandbox. Remember, you had a training on this, which you can rely on. Feel free to email me if you have questions. --Theredproject (talk) 23:00, 1 December 2019 (UTC)