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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Regards, CoconutPaste (talk) 16:26, 22 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, Brianagoud, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Good work completing the training modules!Edw04005 (talk) 23:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Topic Ideas For Wiki Project

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Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Look at the talk page for existing topics for a sense of who else is working on it and what they're doing. Describe your choices to your instructor for feedback."



(Brianagoud (talk) 17:36, 10 February 2016 (UTC)).Reply

Response to Possible Topics

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You've identified three interesting women. Both Mott and Anthony's pages are pretty extensive and I'm concerned that you'll have difficulty adding new information. Shepard is a possibility -- you would need good secondary sources. You could do some preliminary library catalog searching to see what's out there. If you can find some books/articles then you know you can move forward.

You do not necessarily need to find a woman who does not yet have a page, but a good subject needs to have some "gaps" that you can add to.

See the handout on BB from the UNE librarians -- there are several good subjects on that list. We can also meet to search for some possibilities, too. Let me know if that would help. Edw04005 (talk) 21:32, 15 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Project

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(Brianagoud (talk) 04:13, 29 February 2016 (UTC)).Reply

Inline references

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Hi, Brianagoud. Thanks for your work on Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat. You have inline references for much of the article, but the early life section doesn't seem to be referenced. Referencing that will make it easier for editors working on the page to verify claims, without them it's hard to know how much to trust content on wikipedia. If those sections are sourced from work in the archives, let me know and I'll tell you how to source that and how to use those sources in text. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Reply