User talk:Aolivex

Talk for CAPA
•	Introduction (about 5 minutes):
 * who we are / how we became Wikipedians
 * warm-up (who is your hero? who has influenced you either known personally or not? problem with word hero, need for feminism, how do we know about people)

•	A bit more about Wikipedia (5 minutes) AWESOME > Wikipedia tutorials for students: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students
 * How it evolved:
 * launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales; HQ "Wikimedia Foundation" in San Francisco, CA = nonprofit org
 * 5M+ articles; 280+ languages; 7th most popular website in the world
 * Anyone can edit
 * “Pillars” or principles of editing: ; BE BOLD!
 * Verifiability Material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source. In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that information comes from a reliable source.
 * No Original ResearchWikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources.
 * Notability: notability Notability
 * COI: what if I want to edit about myself? *Emphasize NPOV > why is this a problem for feminists or anti-feminists?

•	Tutorial: getting started with editing (10 minutes)
 * The structure of pages: “mainspace”, Talk Page, history page
 * Creating an account, User Page and Sandbox
 * The WYSIWIG editor vs. Wiki markup
 * Citations and how the Reflist works

•	Supervised independent editing

•	Questions / invitation to the event;
 * how to add your username to the Wikipedia:Meetup pages
 * the event and why it matters (we can show a brief video and pictures of a past edit-a-thon in Chicago or New York; the “gender bias” on Wikipedia)

What makes a good article?
 * Elements of quality articles

An article can be short, but complete: example: Ydessa Hendeles
 * problematic reflist (one entry twice)

Specific issues: Biographies

Talk for Homestead
Resources Polygon Op-Ed by Brianna Wu http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/22/5926193/women-gaming-harassment … Guardian Newspaper Coverage about GamerGate (Anita and Zoe) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/01/how-to-attack-a-woman-who-works-in-video-games … Not in the Kitchen Anymore (1 woman's personal accounts of being a female gamer) http://www.notinthekitchenanymore.com/about/ Anita Sarkeesian TEDxWOmen 2012 Talk about Harassment (includes transcript) http://feministfrequency.com/2012/12/05/tedxwomen-talk-on-sexist-harassment-cyber-mobs/ … Racism in Games - good/easy overview! http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/16/gaming-while-black-casual-racism-to-cautious-optimism/ …

•	A bit about women in video games (10 minutes) TRIGGER WARNING
 * Gender bias in video games (it’s actually a lot like Wikipedia – sigh): Women in video games: Harrassment: http://www.gtfothemovie.com/
 * Famous women in video games (makers, critics): Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu
 * Women in video games as a topic on Wikipedia LINK


 * Some guided tasks (here we’ll help the participants make small edits, put in references; maybe Scarlett?)
 * Add info about Diversity in video games to demographics video games page "The IGDA found that 79 percent of respondents identified as white, while 2.5 percent identified as black."

Change in your user rights
Your Wikipedia account was previously granted a user right called "course instructor" by the Wiki Education Foundation. That right enabled you to create a course page through the EducationProgram MediaWiki extension. Starting in fall 2015, the Wiki Education Foundation has discontinued its use of this extension. Going forward, users should create course pages through the Wiki Education Foundation website. That application is more user-friendly, and any content is automatically mirrored to Wikipedia. To prevent confusion, we'll be removing your "course instructor" user right, as it is not needed with the new system. This is simply a notification of the technical change to your account. No action is needed from you at this time.

If you plan on teaching with Wikipedia for the fall 2015 term, please email me (helaine@undefinedwikiedu.org) for instructions how to create your next course page using our new system. --Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk), sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:09, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Women and video games
I would tend to agree with you on your comment in Talk:Women and video games. The topic seems more in the media in the US. Know of any good sources to start things rolling? Otherwise, I suspect not much will become of it. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 11:59, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

WIR A+F
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Amanda Phelan has been accepted
 Amanda Phelan, 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. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! SwisterTwister  talk  04:17, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Amanda_Phelan help desk] .
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Hi Aolivex - I edited the page on Amanda Phelan some this morning and I very much appreciate your help with this! I mostly edited text that I had written previously but I did take out one of the blog references you added. I couldn't have gotten this up without your amazing help and contribution to the page! Kellyjeanne9 (talk) 13:02, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Dress For Success (organization)


The article Dress For Success (organization) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you,

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:00, 21 March 2016 (UTC)