Towersc

Nice job on training and user page, Crystal! J.R. Council (talk) 03:47, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

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Group Brainstorming and Workspace

Greetings to my group members! Here is the inaugural post. As we mentioned in class, our main choice we need to decide on is probably whether we want to work on a biography or psychological concept, since that will dictate the outline of the article. From there maybe the question is whether we want to be fine-tuning an article that is mostly there or building a quality article from "stub" up? Towersc (talk) 03:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

I think we should work on a biography, a lot of times concepts are well covered but often times the people and their history are not. I selected the Hermann Rorschach as the article that needs the most improvement in the last assignment, I think that could possibly be a good article to do for our project! Let me know what your ideas are! Astuhl (talk) 18:56, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

One stub that I found that could be interesting was on "group threat theory" and there isn't really much there, so we'd pretty much be starting from scratch. I would be up for whatever and I think working on a biography/the Hermann Rorschach article would provide us with many options on how to do it. Morgan.wing (talk) 20:16, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

It seems like there's a general agreement on doing a biography, and all of us have looked at the Rorschach article and found it to be in need of some improvement. So, we could submit that as our number one choice. For our second choice, I found another biography, for Doreen Kimura. She studied sex and its relationship with intelligence. The existing article is a stub but has a decent foundation of what to look for about her, and since her work was somewhat controversial, it may be easier to find secondary sources reviewing her work. If you guys are cool with that, I can email Dr. Council and let him know our No. 1 choice is Rorschach and that our No. 2 choice is Doreen Kimura. Let me know what you think. Towersc (talk) 17:23, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Both those options look good to me! I say that we try Hermann for option 1 and Doreen for option 2, if for some reason those do not work we could do "group threat theory"! Astuhl (talk) 17:33, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Having those as our first and second option sounds good to me as well! Morgan.wing (talk) 18:28, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Topic choice

I just looked at Hermann Rorschach. It seems like a well-developed article. What would you change for your project? If it's not very substantial, you should change topics. J.R. Council (talk) 22:01, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Too bad Kimura was another group's first choice. Try looking at the second choices listed in the Blackboard List of Groups. Marcia K. Johnson would be a great person to profile. There are others as well. If you need some help, let me know.J.R. Council (talk) 18:37, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Council. During our in-class group discussion, we all thought there were some major issues worth revising on Rorschach’s article. For instance, it is missing major sections that are indicated on this resources guide, e.g. the lead section is only two lines long, the career section skips around and leaves out chunks of time, there is no clear bibliography section for the work he did publish, and there is no legacy section to give context for how influential the inkblot test became in the 20th century. Additionally, the talk page on the article rates it as a stub-class. Towersc (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

I'll take another look at Rorschach and let you know what I think. [Note: Talk pages can get outdated. Maybe thay stub comment should be removed.]J.R. Council (talk) 22:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

I've looked at the Rorschach article, and you're right, it does have some issues. I realized that one of my classes took on this article a few years ago, and did a pretty good job, but the current version does not reflect this. As far as I can tell, the real problem is an editor named Martinevans123. He seems to have taken ownership of this article, and has reverted it numerous times, removing additions and changes, and going back to an earlier version.

I'm going to say "Go for it!" Take on this article, but be smart about it. You'll need to have his cooperation to make your changes stick. I will help you with this, and I will also get Ian Ramjohn at Wiki Ed user:Ian (Wiki Ed) to advise us on this. Hope you're up for a little challenge. Probably a good idea for one or more of your group to come talk to me in my office so I can show you what I'm talking about. J.R. Council (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)