User:Drluke

Welcome to my user page. My name is George Luke. I teach an undergraduate course in sociological theory at Florida State University. I use Wikipedia to supplement course materials for my understanding of sociological concepts and theorists, and I encourage my students to do the same. This spring (2007) I have assigned a Wiki-style encyclopedia entry as a class project. Each student is required to identify a relevant concept missing or served by a stub, research the concept and develop an entry.

Posting is up to them, but I think many will choose to do so once they see how they can make a contribution to the general community of knowledge. I want them to follow Wiki policy, and am in process of researching that for myself.

The wealth of user guidance available is somewhat daunting. I've assembled a few links to what I see as key guidance:

Policies_and_guidelines

How_to_write_a_great_article

Your_first_article

No_original_research

What_Wikipedia_is_not

Quick_guide (cheatsheet with formatting/editing tools)

For students in my class: Look at the URL at the top of the page "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Drluke"  --your user page should look like that, with your user name in place of "Drluke". If it doesn't, check that you have set up your account properly. Create a sub-page below your user page for maximum safety and privacy while you work.

Also: always make a backup .txt or .doc on your local machine. Always.