User talk:Michaelaelan

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 07:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiEd Topic Propsals

For the WikiEd project I am interested in potentially editing and providing substantial editions to the following pages/topic areas:

1. The Political Violence Page- Currently the page largely consists of a poor introduction and a vague listing of the different forms of political violence. This page may be kind of a large undertaking considering the number of sub categories that exist, two of which I added myself.

2. Famine- While the page is largely comprehensive I would like to add more to on the relationship between democratization and famine. There has been a lot of scholarly explorations into Amartya Sen's assertion that famine has never happened in a democratized nation and I would like to explore that further and report more on both sides of the scholarly argument on that page.

3. Transaction Costs, Institutions, and Economic Performance (1992) by Douglas North - I made a very small addition to this page for more previous assignment however I think the blurb could be largely expanded, potentially into a linked page.

4. Factor Endowments- After doing this week's reading, I realized the page was lacking in information it was also flagged for needing a great deal of work on it. I think it would make a substantial but manageable project.

Political violence page outline

I am working on the Political Violence page with Mahelet. We discussed doing a number of things to improve the page.

1.Structuring the Page

Currently the page is a poorly organized and sparse list of forms of political violence. It lacks theories of political violence, who employs violence, and how those forms of violence are employed politically.

Potentially I would like to structure the page with theories of political violence and then list the forms of political violence beneath the applicable theories.

The forms of violence themselves need to be expanded as there are only 10 listed and we are unsure if human rights violations needs to be its own bullet as well whether not combine war and revolution.

The summaries of each form need to also be expanded. We talked about adding pertinent information from the linked pages as well as how the form relates to theories of violence and 2-3 examples of each.

2. Linking other Wikipedia pages

There are very few pages linked to the political violence page beyond those relating to the subheadings. As we add information, we plan to link as many terms and pages as possible. (Mahelet has already started to do that in the previous assignment)

3.Adding the Info from the Political Violence page to the linked pages

As we add information regarding theories of violence, we are looking to add that information to the linked page as well and link our page to the information.

Peer Review

Hi!

Just wanted you to know that I placed my peer review / recommendations on the Talk Page for Political Violence.

Jp-columbia (talk) 19:02, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Michaelaelan, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Political violence has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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