User talk:DStrassmann/Archive 1

Beginning this talk page (Dpj363 (talk) 17:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)).

Come hang out with us!
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that we have created an IRC channel for "countering systemic bias one new editor at a time", aka closing the gender gap! Come hang out at #wikimedia-gendergap. I hope you'll join us! (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:26, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar for being in the working group
Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:17, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome
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Female genital mutilation
Hi, someone posted on the talk page of this article that it was part of your course this spring, but I can't see the article or the students listed there. I've found some plagiarism in it, so if you could let me know who the tutor is that would be appreciated. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 17:56, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Article feedback
No problem As you can see, I took several days to get back to your student, which is frankly rude of me, but I hope that said feedback was in fact useful. At one in the same time, your students should learn things about proper sources, copyediting, etc. that are useful anywhere throughout academia or professional writing, but they can also learn things about MediaWiki software and how Wikipedia functions culturally. My goal is that my feedback addresses both from the perspective of an undergraduate who is new to this encyclopedia.

I would be happy to help you look over articles but to be blunt again, I am shocked that students don't take the initiative to contact me in the first place. I have completed two courses of undergraduate study and am on my third and I have never had a one-on-one contact who gave me 24/7 access to help me with my assignments. I have done this for several semesters and have had two students actually contact me directly wanting feedback&mdash;they also ended up doing well with their coursework. (As always, the sort of student who takes the lead in asking for help is also frequently the sort of student who puts for extra effort anyway, bearing in mind all kinds of caveats about how real life can get in the way of school, etc.) So, on the one hand, I am definitely happy to help and will review whatever needs reviewed but on the other hand, I am somewhat disinclined to bother if your students (or anyone else's&mdash;I am not attempting to slight your class) can't be bothered to send a single e-mail, talk page notice, call, IM, or text over the course of four months.

I hope that doesn't come across as inappropriate but I just find it so vexing...

To reiterate: I will happily give feedback, but I would prefer it if someone could give me some direction. That is, either if students contact me directly or if you at least shoot me an e-mail and tell me which ones might most benefit from a review. If you really want, I am willing to look at every article and devote as much time as I did to postcolonial feminism. Just contact me back at any of the ways that I've provided and let me know.

And thanks for encouraging your students to use this platform to both learn and teach others! —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:21, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership Newsletter
Hi ! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:
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Some advice?
Professor (or Diana if you'd prefer), I'm not sure how often you have a chance to get involved in functional things like AFD but I have some concerns about this AFD that might need some WP:WEF assistance. An editor has worked on the article (and nothing else) since August but claims it is part of an assignment for Coastal Carolina University and that he is one of 125 "travel" students who have been assigned to write articles (an assignment apparently suspended pending the outcome of the AFD). I'm not sure how credible the claim is (or whether it is an elaborate AFD ruse) but I thought if there was some way the WEF could contact the university... If it is legit, the lecturer (and his/her students) could do with some assistance. If it's not, a quick call/email to the uni should sort it. Would appreciate your thoughts. Cheers, Stalwart 111  13:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * (talk page stalker) Stalwart, you might best bring that issue up for community attention at the WP:Education noticeboard. Why did you think the WP:WEF was the place to go? Maybe we can make an edit to direct traffic to the right place. The WEF has barely set up a bank account, last I heard. Best regards. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 13:43, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Great advice, thanks Biosthmors! I was looking for the old outreach program, some of which seems to have been replaced by the WEF. I searched for education outreach and the old (now archived) program came up directing me to the WEF. Diana is the first WEF board member listed so I ended up here. Sorry for clogging up your talk page professor! I'll head off to the WP:Education noticeboard now! Stalwart 111  14:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome Stalwart. Could you provide a direct link here to the page you came across? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 14:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure, I ended up at Education Working Group, which talked about supporting students' first edits (which was what I was looking for). The note at the top links to WP:WEF. Cheers, Stalwart 111  14:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Stalwart. Edit made. =) Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 14:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Stalwart 111  14:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Help with your discussion for Campus Ambassador application: Aashaa
Dear!

Recently I apply for Campus Ambassador Program. Please suggest and discuss here on my proposal. For being support and promote wikipedia and wiki culture at my country and my university, you're comments will be helpful.

Thank You--Aashaa (talk) 04:10, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Discussion of the term 'sexualization'.
--The Vintage Feminist (talk) 05:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Suggestion and thanks
Hi Dr. Strassmann,

I realized this morning that I was long overdue to say hi and offer you some thanks. As a member of WikiProject Human rights, I've often worked with your students in some capacity or another, and I've read even more of their work, and I appreciate the way it's been filling in some of our weak and incomplete content. I just giving your student User:Baileybrash a barnstar, and wanted to share the "wikilove" here as well.

I also wanted to offer a thought that you should feel free to take or leave. I notice that your students tend to go after "topic" articles like gender inequality, right to health, prostitution in Country X, etc., which are among the hardest Wikipedia articles to write. On the one hand, this is great for us, because not many Wikipedians take these on, and your students are generally doing good work in expanding them.

On the other hand, it seems that your students run into a certain ceiling in cases like Bailey's Gender inequality in the United States, where she added excellent, well-researched content, but the scope is simply so broad that it would be tough for even an experienced Wikipedian to bring the article to a GA. Have you thought about opening the assignment to subjects of more concrete scope like individuals or events -- Wangari Maathai, Seneca Falls Convention, Yorm Bopha, Bayard Rustin, Sharpeville massacre, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, that sort of thing? These aren't necessarily more important articles than what your students are currently working on, but if your students continue to pursue GA status, these might be more achievable targets.

Thanks again for all your class is doing to improve our content. I'm limited in the amount of individual review time I can offer, but please feel free to ping me whenever there's another way I can help out! Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 14:21, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest editing
Hi. Before you make such edits, it would be better--and more in line with the Wikipedia ethos--to declare your conflict of interest. Not least when you are deleting the "controversies" section, with a rather misleading edit summary. Otherwise, happy editing! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 02:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)