Mkclements1
Welcome Mkclements1!
| Some pages of helpful information to get you started: | Some common sense Do's and Don'ts:
|
| If you need further help, you can: | or even: |
Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page, and someone will try to help.
There are many ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. Here are a few ideas:
|
|
Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the 
button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to this (your talk) page, and a timestamp.
To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own private sandbox for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put
{{My sandbox}} on your userpage.Great -- just one more task ...
editMkclements1, You can also add your name to our course page! It's at Education Program:University of Southern Indiana/COMM 192: Intro to Mass Communication (Fall 2013). Welcome to the course, and have fun being a Wikipedian. Crtew (talk) 23:10, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Enrolling in the course
editYou can click on the enroll button on the upper left of our syllabus page and use the password given off wiki. Crtew (talk) 15:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
First tasks
editMkclements1, you have successfully completed all of the first tasks. Excellent work! 
Done Crtew (talk) 18:38, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Adopt a journalist project
editMkclements1, You are assigned Muhammad al-Rabou'e (click here to edit). Crtew (talk) 22:23, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Questions about inline citations
editMkclements1,
Good question: What is an inline citation and how do I do it?
The good news is that you have been doing inline citations for years now since you've been writing research papers for school. You just probably never called it that!
Inline citations means that you cite sources within the text at the place where you have used information from specific references and you're backing the fact up. You do this all the time in academic papers. Styles, however, vary greatly. For example, MLA Handbook, the style most students have used, refers to inline citation as "parenthetical documentation" and uses the familiar looking "(Author Time)" structure to cite and point to the full citation in the reference section. Wikipedia is not so different in principle but it is visually a noticeable difference. What you see in Wikipedia is a number and that number points to the full citation in the reference section. There are more styles than these two and you'll probably learn about more as you take subject specific classes where a research paper in the field is required.
Wikipedia offers guidance about "inline ciations" here: Wikipedia:Inline_citations.
The Wikipedia tutorial that you took when you were editing your user page had a section on citations that you should review: Wikipedia:Training/For_students/Citing_sources. You can play the video, "Editing basics: Citing sources (part one)" there to see how its done.
If you want an example of an article that uses inline citation, see Murder of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.
You will have to use inline citations throughout your college career. If you write a report at work in the future, your boss will want to see the citations. So it's best just to learn how to do it and know that you have to adapt to different styles.
Image
editUnfortunately, your image will be deleted sometime between now and seven days -- Wikimedia Commons is not the place for Fair_use and it needs a correct license tag. All things in time. Just work on the article for now. Keep the image. You can try again once this one is deleted. Crtew (talk) 04:44, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Stringing quotes
editRewrite.Crtew (talk) 16:37, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Orphaned non-free image File:Al-Rabou'e-Muhammad.jpg
edit
Thanks for uploading File:Al-Rabou'e-Muhammad.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 20:58, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Better source request for File:Al-Rabou'e-Muhammad.jpg
edit
Thanks for your upload to Wikipedia:
You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact Web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page or me at my talk page. Thank you. Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 03:07, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Good article, a few suggestions.
editI would take out the word unfortunately. Dr. Tew said words like this are opinionated. I know there might not be much more information about it, but I would try to add more about his career. You said he wasn’t the only journalist targeted by this group, who else was targeted? How many people did they kill? They were arrested, were they found guilty? What was there punishment? Overall this a great article. You did an excellent job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkmarshall (talk • contribs) 19:13, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with User:Dkmarshall about paying attention to voice. As far as other word usage goes, please change "assassination" to "murder". It's only "assassination" if the killing is political. I believe the usage under the section impact, however, is correct.
- Furthermore, I would suggest that you tighten up your lead. Look here at this wikilink and the points to mention and examples! Everything before ... "According to the Wall ..." is good factual material, but you should summarize afterwards in a sentence why he and what happened to him is important. Please do not ONLY rely on the Committee to Protect Journalism to make this point. The CPJ is an OK source, but not a completely unbiased, reliable source. New sites, especially major world news, would be the best.
- Almost all of what is under the personal section currently should, in fact, go under career. Ok, so you don't know much about him, or do you? Later, you say he lived in the "Beni Qais district". That's personal. Yet you have done a good job given the amount of repetition there is and also alternative accounts of his murder.
- Go through and check whether locations, people, organizations should be wikilinked to other articles. Tawakkol Karman, for instance, is a Nobel Laureate.Crtew (talk) 21:45, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Mkclements1, Use the space below to list the changes you have made to the article since receiving feedback:
Changed assassination in the "Personal" section to sudden death. Moved some information from the "Personal" section to the "Career" section.