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Australian Cattle Dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Cattle_Dog&diff=858178226&oldid=858177645

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Cattle_Dog&diff=prev&oldid=858177645

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Cattle_Dog&diff=prev&oldid=858177073

Marvin the Martian

 * OK, you needed to have copyedited three articles. Some of your edits on the dog were reverted--editing an FA can be tricky, and of the three edits, the only one I'm going to restore was the wikilinks around Australia. Dr Aaij (talk) 18:08, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Rough Draft
The Pratt Gin Company was founded in 1833 by Daniel Pratt after he had moved to central Alabama, which is now know as Prattville. In 1836 Daniel Pratt moved his operations to McNeil's Mill on Autuaga Creek, and later in 1838 he moved further up the creek. The Pratt Gin Company would soon become one of the largest producers of cotton gins in the world. The gin shop building in the coming would expand to house other operations; with things such as the Sash and Blind Company, a grist mill, and a carriage and wagon factory.

Ryan Kocer
Ryan Kocer was a wrestler from Wagner Community School in Wagner, South Dakota. In 2008, Kocer won the Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award.

YOUTH
Ryan Kocer is the oldest of three boys (Tom and Alex) and one sister (Kayli), parents are Jody and Don Kocer. Ryan started wrestling at the age of 4 in an AAU youth wrestling program. Kocer was also a three year starter for the Wagner Community School football team. Kocer started and ended his high school wrestling career at Wagner Community School. Kocer won his first South Dakota High School Activities Association wrestling state title of three in eighth grade at 130 weight class. Kocer’s freshman year ended with a second place finish after sustaining a knee injury. Sophomore and Junior year, he picked up his second and third title at 152 and 171 respectively.

ACCIDENT
On the night of August 25, 2007, Kocer was pushing a two-ton diesel truck in neutral out of the yard of his home, to keep his parents from waking up. While pushing, Kocer lost control and was pinned between the truck and a grain bin. His left kneecap was damaged to the point that blood flow became non-existent in his lower leg. Kocer was taken to the clinic in town before he was airlifted to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for treatment. Kocer underwent 10 hours of surgery to remove his left foot. Doctors became concerned about possible infections and the condition of his knee, that they finally amputated the left leg above the knee.

Kocer also sustained injury to the right tibia and doctors placed a rod in his right leg. It took Kocer eight weeks to stand on his right leg with the aid of crutches.

SENIOR YEAR
Kocer’s first match after the injury was at the Clash in Minnesota. Kocer finished the day with a 3-1 record. Kocer earned his 200th victory during his senior season. Ryan Kocer’s senior record was 16-7, finishing fourth at the state tournament helping Wagner win a team state title.

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL
Kocer won the ESPY for Best Male Athlete with a Disability Award in 2008.

Kocer attended college at South Dakota State University, where he studied and earned his degree in nursing. He has obtained his Family Nurse Practitioners license and is employed with Avera Health. Kocer has been a mentor to other amputees.

External Link
Argus Leader Interview from Argus Leader Website.

Evaluation and Quality Control Summary (1-2+3-4+...)
One of the issues that the article faced and that was fixed is the presupposing of mathematical concepts on part of the readers. This problem was fixed with not going into full detail of concepts leading to this article, but briefly explaining and leaving links for the readers to further delve into. Of course their were some grammatical errors that were pointed out, but it seems that the author or others have fixed those issues. There were also formatting issues especially with it being a math article, meaning that equations or fractions were made in a way contrary to how they might need or want to be made. These issues were fixed by the author and others with some fancy formatting and customization tricks. There was also issues with leaving special characters and the headings which was dealt with. There were parts were the author rambled on one idea for too long but the author cut down on that so it was a little less active.

There were 3 users that peer reviewed this article, there are 31 comments and/or remarks on the article's talk page and there were 10 comments or supporting statements in the featured article candidate space and 1 do not support statement. This article made the main page on Did you know a month before becoming a Featured Article. This article is of low importance by the Mathematical Rating.
 * One thing to note is that the review was from 2007, when Wikipedia was young. Since then standards have gone up--I don't know if this article is good or bad, but it was a long time ago. I also saw something about images changing from SVG to PNG or whatever--you could have commented on that, cause I think you might know what that means. Dr Aaij (talk) 15:56, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elephant&diff=94194068&oldid=94190838

This was put up but reverted wihtin one minute. Stephen Colbert told his audience and watchers during one of his shows in 2006 to vandalize the article on elephants, which many people did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillsborough_disaster&diff=602696276&oldid=602559228

This was put up and reverted qucikly, there were a string of vandalisms on April in 2014 on the Hillsborough disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E85&curid=1768543&action=history

This was a piece a vandalism where the user deleted the whole article, but it was undone after a few minutes.

Reliability
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2018/1011/Why-does-Wikipedia-mostly-work

This is an article in The Christian Science Monitor written by Eoin O'Carrol. The article states that Wikipedia is "(mostly)" a credible website and a good launching point for research. The focus points that help Wikipedia stay credible is that it tries to stay in a neutral view point on its articles, everything needs to be verifiable, and there is no original research. The sources that are tagged in Wikipedia articles should be the focal point or most of the research and Wikipedia is a good place to find sources such as books and websites.

P.S. This website is pretty cool because it offers a quick read option for their articles instead of having to deep read or scan the whole time.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/wikipedia-wikimedia-katherine-maher-interview.html

This article in Slate Magazine is written by April Glaser and Will Oremus. This is a Q&A with the Executive Director of Wikimedia, Katherine Maher. They ask Maher the possibilities and the foundations that make Wikipedia is a reliable source.