User talk:Anderspauley

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Your submission at Articles for creation
 History of United States Prison Systems, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Andrew327 04:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Impressive work
I am impressed by your work on History of United States Prison Systems. What inspired you to take on such a large project? If you have any questions about Wikipedia, either write below this message or post on my Talk page (click the "327" after "Andrew" on the right.) Andrew327 05:19, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Andrew, I'm glad you're happy with the progress I've made on the article so far. At first I was a bit concerned that it was going nowhere. I realize it's incomplete and a bit rough at the moment, but I'm committed to building it up over time, although my progress will be more incremental from now on.

I got started on the project through a legal history class: our professor felt that our class should produce something of more social benefit than a paper that he can grade and file away forever, so he asked us to research and write for Wikipedia. I've been interested in prison history since I was in college, and I've done some practical legal work in the prison context, so I thought it would be a good topic for my project.

I wanted to approach the topic from a broad perspective for two main reasons. First, very few treatments of the topic that I have found--whether in the news or in academia--have considered prison history in the U.S. as a continuous and cohesive narrative. Most have considered specific eras of prison building and reform in isolation, and these tend to give the impression that prison reformers of different eras were hermetically separate from each other. Second, I found several articles on Wikipedia about granular topics in prison history--i.e. specific people, places, and things--so I thought it would be helpful to readers to have a single, comprehensive overview of the subject to tie those articles together and lead them to others.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions or assistance you can offer in improving the page. Thanks for checking in.

Anderspauley (talk) 17:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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