Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Northeastern University/Online communities (2014 Q3)

Exemplars

Wikipedia's Assessment and Grading System

Earlier articles that began in the Northeastern archives include:

• Carmen Pola
• Community Resources for Justice

Sample start-class article:

• Cindy Ady

Sample stub-class article:

• Víctor Alba

Sources for research in Boston history

Start with:

• The Boston Globe Archive
• Google Books

For more:

• GenderWatch
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• Lexis Nexis
• Bay Windows
• Bay State Banner
• Google Scholar
• Google News

Markup Resources

• Markup Cheatsheet
• Naming conventions for people
• Citation styles -- note that there is no house style for all of Wikipedia, but you should pick one and stick to it within your article.
  • User:Reagle's citation recommendations
  • If your citation has a link to an NU-specific database, you should take out the NU-specific info. As an example, here's a citation to a Boston Globe article in our ProQuest database:
    • Bob Markell to get award. (1962, Oct 07). Boston Globe (1960-1982) Retrieved from http://ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/276426443?accountid=12826.
    • Note the http://ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url= section; you want to take that out.

Comments and Discussion

Patrol

Some folks have had their pages marked as "patrolled", which can sound sort of threatening. But it's actually a good thing: there's a large group of Wikipedians that look at all new content and provide a baseline check to make sure content isn't objectionable (pornography, copyright violation, etc.) They don't review the content from a quality standpoint, but provide assurance that there's nothing nefarious in your new pages. Your "patrolled" pages therefore show up as cleared. You can read more about the new pages patrol here. See in particular the guidelines for the new pages feed -- these are the guidelines other editors use when looking at your initial articles, once you move them out of the sandbox. AmandaRR123 (talk) 20:25, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

General review comments, week of 10/23

Good work so far! Just a few initial comments:

• When interacting on talk pages, if you introduce a new subject you should start a new section on that talk page. If you are commenting on an existing topic, you can comment within that section. If you are starting a new subject, then start a new section.
• I think most folks could work on tightening up their leader section (the intro that's before the main part of the article.) Remember, this is where you highlight what's most notable about the person, organization, or event. The leader doesn't need to be terribly long, and with our shorter start articles should probably only be 1-2 sentences long.
• Some folks are already getting suggestions via templates being placed within the article -- the ones I've seen most commonly are suggestions to add categories, or link to other pages in the encyclopedia.
• As always, let me know if you have any specific questions about this! AmandaRR123 (talk) 21:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)