Rcnesbitt1

Sctomlin (talk) 18:53, 14 September 2018 (UTC)== Welcome! ==

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:28, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

What's up Nesbitt!! I think its so cool that Dr. Griffin gave you a nickname and hopefully I will remember which Rachel is which because you both sit next to each other. Continue to kill it this year and I look forward to getting to know you. I think one of the best things I learned from the readings was the different article structures that can be used. I think my favorite one had to be the Christmas tree structure because it broadens as more information is given.Jakesilb14 (talk) 17:56, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey Rachel! We sit close in class and have had a few discussions about class work and how awesome Dr. Griffin is. I learned that edits or articles you post have to be unbiased and nonopinionated and I feel like this will be difficult once it comes time for us to create our own pages. Other than that I've enjoyed class and talking with you! Looking forward to class on Monday! (Sarah Tomlin)

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Hello, Rcnesbitt1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Andrew C. Billings, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Your user profile indicates that you are a student of The University of Alabama. As such, you might have a conflict of interest editing or creating articles about The University of Alabama staff --Bbarmadillo (talk) 08:15, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Andrew C. Billings) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Andrew C. Billings.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Hello! Thank you for your contribution! I just wanted to drop by to explain the changes I made at Andrew C. Billings. Large things first: I removed the section on TEDx talks from the article. TEDx conferences can be large or small, formal and informal, and aren't necessarily worthy of inclusion in a biography just because they happened. If the talk is sufficiently important to garner attention in reliable sources, then we will report on it. Otherwise, we tend not to include things like that (similarly, seminars, keynote addresses, speeches, etc. are not covered in biographies here unless they're the subject of coverage in some reliable sources). Second, I trimmed the research section. The way you had written it, it sometimes read as if it was the blurb on the book jacket of three of his books. I tried to condense it into a coherent blurb about his research generally, while maintaining some of the original content that you added. The article should be about Andrew Billings, not about each of his books. If his books are notable (per WP:NBOOKS) they can get articles of their own where the context and theses can be more fully described. Lastly I swapped out the recent-publications section (which will quickly fall out of date) with a section on "notable" publications (based on how much they were cited by others, or how much they appear to be discussed in the media). Hopefully that will give the reader a fuller appreciation of Andrew Billings' research... Writing biographies of academics here is challenging. Academics get minimal media coverage, so finding good sources is always a hassle. That said, I hope you don't find this experience too discouraging. There are lots of excellent and notable academics that have poor or no coverage in Wikipedia. So I'm glad to see another editor with an interest in the topic. If you have questions or concerns as you get started around here, feel free to ask me at my talk page User talk:Ajpolino or ask at WP:TEAHOUSE where an experienced editor would be happy to help. Thanks again! Happy editing!

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Ajpolino (talk) 21:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)