Welcome!

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Hi Shormeli! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

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Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

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Happy editing! --Taweetham (talk) 03:40, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 01

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Please complete online student training at https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students You must login and complete all five basic modules. (Wikipedia policies, ..., Finding your article) After completion of these module, we will be able to see that you have edited at least three pages on the English Wikipedia.

Special:Contributions/Shormeli at this time shows that you have not finished:

  • sandbox [1] (N.B. Please do not click "Submit your draft for review!". The function is not applicable to our course.)
  • be bold [2]
  • talk page tutorial [3]

You need to be logged in on a desktop platform, so that your contributions are recorded under your account. The links above take you straight into the pages where you can launch interactive tutorials. We expect to see you create three new pages during the this training exercise. --Taweetham (talk) 03:40, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 13:26, 4 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 09:57, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 13:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
  Done Congratulations! This assignment is completed. --Taweetham (talk) 10:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 02

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General instruction
  • You are going to see history of pages on Wikipedia to learn how volunteers collaboratively develop content and media. We would like you to learn from the edits made by our students in the past terms. The list of terms, students and articles can be found at user:Taweetham/WEP.
  • All tasks must be answered by using Special:Diff. See Help:Diff for further detailed instructions and see an example below
Tasks
  1. Read WP:NOT. Find an example of student edit on an article AND warning message that the student received on his/her talk page.
  2. Read Wikipedia:Edit warring. Find an example of student edits on an article (it requires several edits to be an edit warring) AND warning that the student received on his/her talk page.
  3. Read WP:COPYVIO. Find an example of a student who has been warned about it on his/her talk page. Find an example (Wikipedia diff on an article) where copyrighted media (image, VDO or sound files) is deleted from Wikimedia Commons and removed from an article.

Please leave your answer below. (Leave a reply in this section of your talkpage.) --Taweetham (talk) 10:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Task 1 (WP:NOT)

Addition Special:Diff/934661703
Removal Special:Diff/933371513
Talk page warning: Special:Diff/926274646

Task 2 (Wikipedia:Edit warring)

Change: Special:Diff/928193796
warning: Special:Diff/869110648

Task 3 (WP:COPYVIO)

Talk page warning: Special:Diff/689014995/689699282
Copyrighted media removal: Special:Diff/689029908/690458554

--Shormeli (talk) 00:53, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Done Congratulations! This assignment is completed. --Taweetham (talk) 01:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 03

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Please propose a topic or two that you wish to write on Wikipedia. You should read all related articles/policies on Wikipedia and provide the following information.

  1. Your proposed article(s) (New or existing STUB article relating to a chemical compound, reaction, equipment or technique - or related to your major/interest. (see Category:Stub-Class Chemistry articles))
    • For new article, explain briefly why it passes WP:NOTE.
    • For existing topics, explain briefly the state/structure of the current article.
      • Is the structure & existing content appropriate?
        • If not, restructure or remove content as per WP:MOS and WP:NOT before you move to the next stage.
  2. Brief outline of your contributions to the article
    • In what section & what content
      • Make sure it belongs to the article and it is encyclopedic. See WP:NOT for things that should NOT be added.
      • Make sure that it is not redundant to existing articles. Use Google search "site:wikipedia.org" rather than Wikipedia search.
    • References for the article
    • Media files (photo/VDO/drawing) to be used in the article.
      • You may suggest plan to create your own work and upload to Wikimedia Commons
      • You may use existing media on Wikimedia Commons. Use Google image search "site:wikimedia.org" rather than Wikimedia Commons search.
  3. Examples/template/related articles that you will use as a model to develop your nominated article.
    • In terms of WP:MOS/formatting - your article will have similar style/format/tone to these articles.
    • In terms of content - your article will link to or will be linked from these articles.

Please leave your answer below. (Leave a reply in this section of your talkpage.) --Taweetham (talk) 01:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply


  1. My proposed articles are from the Category:Stub-Class Chemistry articles.
  2. For all of the articles mentioned above, they all are missing some content about the physical and chemical properties and common chemical examples that exist.

--Shormeli (talk) 01:18, 23 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Done Congratulations! This assignment is completed. --Taweetham (talk) 14:56, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 04

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Your topic is approved and added to the course page. Please develop the proposal into the first draft in your sandbox.

  • For existing article, you may copy some parts of the existing article to your sandbox to see how revision/integration of content would work. You will copy the code back to the article at later stage.
  • For new article, you may want to copy parts of a template article to your sandbox to see what sections are necessary. The sandbox will be moved to the article namespace at later stage. Please do not click "Submit your draft for review!". The function is not applicable to our course.

In all cases, do not copy more than what is necessary. For example, do not copy any categories to your sandbox. --Taweetham (talk) 14:56, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Please pay attention to formatting and technicality of your edits. I have spent some time to revise you answer in Week 03 above as an example. --Taweetham (talk) 14:55, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
I suggest that you work on Aluminium acetate and use {{chembox}} to describes the three salts. --Taweetham (talk) 14:57, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Shormeli! Thanks for your first draft. Here are some comments.

  1. We will need content and references for this new article. I have put an example on the sandbox. Please replace my text with proper content.
  2. Since this is an existing article you may copy your sandbox into the existing article. I just noticed that ChemBoxes exist in Aluminium triacetate and Aluminium diacetate. You may make use of the existing content in the article but you can create a new content for the third salt.

--Taweetham (talk) 10:18, 3 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 08:39, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 05:03, 19 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
  Done --Taweetham (talk) 06:37, 24 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 07

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Your work has been reviewed. Majority of the content/formatting is ok. Please carefully move encyclopedic part of your sandbox to article namespace so that the general public can see it. Here are some tips to help you complete the transition to online editing.

  1. Content/Formatting policies
  2. Technicalities
    • Unlike sandbox, all edits will be public immediately and it is important to make sure that all of your edits are acceptable. You may use preview button and provide edit summary to help you.
    • Any "page save" on Wikipedia even outside article namespace is permanently recorded and can be retrieved by the public. Please think carefully before you click save and before you revert other people edits. No work is lost but only the latest version of the page is shown to the public. Deletion of pages (or versions of pages) is only possible by admins if it falls under Wikipedia:Deletion policy. You can request admins to do deletion or other prescribed tasks should the need arises.
    • You may want to set watchlist and notifications so that you can catch up with changes made to your article and your talk page by other editors.
  3. Community interactions
    • You will be interacting with other volunteers when you make edits on the article namespace. Please respect other users in the community and assume good faith.
    • If your work is reverted or modified in any other ways, do not engage in a edit war. Rather use discussion page of your article to settle issues.
    • You may be blocked from Wikipedia for failure to observe community rules.

We hope you enjoy seeing product of your hard work read by many people in the years to come. --Taweetham (talk) 09:29, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

ICCH224 Week 08

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For your information, the grading is based on the criteria below: Wikipedia contributions must meet the minimum quantity requirement to be graded.

Quantity
  • We generally expect at least 5,000 characters (counted by xtools's authorship attribution) to the assigned article unless you upload media file(s) and/or help contribute to classmate article(s).
  • If media are created by you, uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons and used in the article, either 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 characters credit will be given, regardless of the number of media uploaded.
    • 1,000 characters credit will be given to sound files(s).
    • 1,000 characters credit will be given to image(s).
    • 2,000 characters credit will be given to video(s).
  • If you help classmate(s) to edit their articles or create media files for uses in classmates' articles, up to 1,000 bytes of your contributions may be counted. Your classmate(s) must remain in the Wikipedia assignment program at the end of the term so that the articles can be counted.
  • All of the work must be created by you and recorded under your username.
  • No outstanding WP:COPVIO issues for both text and media.

The work will be graded based on quality and process criteria:

Quality

Learn from similar articles on Wikipedia (preferably higher quality than the article you are working on).

  • Structure
  • Content
    • All information are relevant to the article and written in encyclopedic tone. (Understand WP:NOT.)
    • Text are clearly supported by reliable sources. (Follow WP:REF.)
    • Do final clean up and proofreading.
  • Formatting & housekeeping
    • Formatting (citation e.g. {{cite web}}}, {{cite journal}} and {{cite book}}, heading styles, bullet/numbered point, font face, table, position/layout/caption of images etc.)
    • Other issues (course tag on talk page of your article, make sure you add categories to your article(s) and media)
    • File names in Wikimedia commons or reference name in the article should be sensible and helpful for other editors.
    • Unnecessary files, pages e.g. redirection are nominated for deletion.
    • To produce desired formatting, learn from source codes of other articles on Wikipedia or ask classmates/other Wikipedians.
Process
  • Complete the assignment on time.
  • Understand Wikipedia articles and policies by independent reading.
  • Take appropriate action on comments given by the community/instructor.
  • Provide edit summary for every edit on the article namespace.
  • If conflict arises, do not engage in edit war. Use talk page/discussion pages to resolve the issue.
  • Help improve classmates' articles.
  • Thank other editors/reviewers of your article. --Taweetham (talk) 09:29, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Aluminium acetate

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Hi Shormeli! Thanks for your edit on the page. Here are my comments at this point.

  1. The summary paragraph and the content below as well as in the chembox appears to be redundant. Please consult the manual of style/example article and see how you may address this. I guess you can make the first paragraph much more concise as the details are shown elsewhere in the article.
  2. If you can add more information to the page, please do so. Otherwise, you may try to create a page for the third compound (aluminium monoacetate) instead.

--Taweetham (talk) 09:33, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 06:37, 24 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Shormeli! Please see your contribution of 2,558 characters to the article and the talk page of the article. Can you contribute by taking or drawing a relevant photo and upload it to Wikimedia commons? Also, please see if you can address the messages on the talk page. This may lead to additional content to the article. BTW, I see that you also drafted a new article in the sandbox. Can you tidy it up a bit more so that we can move it to a new article? The new article is supposed to be Aluminium monoacetate. Can you draft it in your sandbox? --Taweetham (talk) 00:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is a reminder that you have not complete the assignment. Please complete it as soon as possible to remain in our program. --Taweetham (talk) 07:26, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your time today. Here is a brief summary of our discussion.

  1. You can add figures to the disambiguation page?
  2. You can fix the figures that are already on Commons.
  3. We can create an new article for monoacetate compound. Link to it article. Reference to Sigma-Alrich, Wiley article and the book "Dictionary of Pharmacological Agents". It can be created on Sandbox first and later be moved to the article name space.

--Taweetham (talk) 09:39, 7 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Please do not leave incomplete sentences "Mordant" and "Medical Purpose and Mordant" in Aluminium acetate. This kind of things can be removed immediately by anyone when found on the article. --Taweetham (talk) 03:20, 11 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Shormeli! Are you ready to create a new article for monoacetate compound? Last week, we have looked at articles in other languages and feel that it is possible to create an article due to references cited in those articles. However, if you are not sure about this approach, please check WP:NOTE. --Taweetham (talk) 02:11, 18 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Shormeli! I ran out of time for today. These are the progress I have made for you.

  1. I was wrong. It was not the disambiguation page. I removed the robot added template.
  2. I moved your content out of the sandbox. There are touch-ups that you should do in the article.
  3. Do you agree that the Wikipedia:Set index articles article should be arranged by mono, di and tri? I have swapped the section but have not swapped the chembox and the content in the first paragraph. Please revert my edit if you disagree. Anyhow, please document this on the talkpage that the order is arranged for whatsoever reason(s).

--Taweetham (talk) 11:48, 22 July 2020 (UTC)--Taweetham (talk) 11:48, 22 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

I agree with you and decided to arrange it by mono-, di-, and tri-. I have rearranged the chemboxes as well as the information in the first paragraph. --Shormeli (talk) 19:44, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

  Done Congratulations! You have completed the requirement for Wikipedia Assignment. [4] [5] --Taweetham (talk) 04:29, 30 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
Could you please see if the chemboxes that I deleted from set index page contain extra information that may need to be transfer to the pages for individual compounds. --Taweetham (talk) 05:50, 5 August 2020 (UTC)Reply