User talk:Erica.Coppola

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Hello, Erica.Coppola, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Rebecca Heineman
Hi! I saw that your edits were reverted - I wanted to give you some notes:


 * I saw that you used the term "well known" in one of the additions. This is a term to be careful about, as it puts a specific viewpoint on the person - as well as the reader. It assumes that the reader knows about Heineman and is also kind of subjective, as well-known is a fairly relative term. What's well-known for one person may not be the case for the next, even if they're familiar with the person or topic in question. With this, it would be better to rephrase this as follows:
 * Rebecca Ann Heineman (born William Salvador Heineman''') is an American video game designer, programmer, hacker, and author.
 * This is essentially just adding the extra roles into the lead sentence.


 * The next claim was about how she traveled with a friend to participate in the Atari 2600 National Space Invaders Championship in 1980. This was indeed discussed later in the same paragraph, per this part:
 * In 1980, Heineman and a friend traveled to Los Angeles to compete in a regional branch of a national Space Invaders championship. t: the fact that she was 17 years old. I think that this would be a good thing to add to the existing passage since it does add something new. You could rephrase this section as follows:
 * In 1980, Heineman and a friend traveled to Los Angeles to compete in a regional branch of a national Space Invaders championship. Although she was seventeen years old at the time, Heineman claimed to be eighteen in order to participate.
 * You can also use the source you added in your edit to back up the claim - however I do have a caution, which I'll go over in the next bullet point.
 * You can also use the source you added in your edit to back up the claim - however I do have a caution, which I'll go over in the next bullet point.


 * AtariWomen looks to be at least partially student-run, so this poses a unique sort of issue since websites and publications like this don't always have the same editorial oversight and verification that would be in say, an academic journal. It doesn't make the source bad, it just means that we will need to do some searching to see if the site has been routinely seen as a reliable source by other reliable sources.


 * The statement "She created 275 games over the course of 39 years and that number continues to grow" looks to have been removed since the number was considered to be a potential overstatement, as the information on the Atari Women page was a little vague. For example, the page may be including games on which she was the programmer rather than the creator per se. A more accurate statement would maybe be that she worked on 275 games, but it would be good to find a secondary source for this since it's a major claim and a very large number.

Other than that there were some formatting issues with the external links section, as you repeated the official website and there was a slight issue with formatting another site. Neither of those are really worth going into too much depth over, though. Definitely let me know if you need any help or have any questions! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:08, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Checking in re: Final Project
Hi I have noticed that you haven't made any edits towards the Work Plan or Link List. Please do so ASAP! If you are having troubles, please let me know via email. --Theredproject (talk) 04:16, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Work Plan

For my final project and the article that I am working on, I am working on it section by section as far as the editing so it makes it easier for me to really see what I am doing and the changes that I need to make. I am trying to add more additional information to her bio such as her date of birth, not just where she was born, her age and how she got her start in the video game industry.

I would like to find out more about her early life and personal life because her career is clearly explained and outlined but still needs a little work and some more citations and research. Her accolades and personal life section are very vague and need to expanded upon as well.

I plan on adding more information about her accolades besides just the list of games she worked on over the years.

500 Words
Rebecca Ann Heineman is an American video game designer and programmer who was raised in Whittier, California. When she was young, she could not afford to purchase games for her Atari 2600, so she taught herself how to copy cartridges and ending up building herself a sizable pirated video game collection. Eventually, she became discontent with just copying games and reverse-engineered the console's code to understand how the games were made. She is now considered a long-time veteran of the video game industry and became a founding member of the video game company Interplay productions in 2013.

In 1980, Heineman and a friend traveled to Los Angeles to compete in a regional branch of a national Space Invaders championship. Although she did not expect to fall under the top 100 contestants, she won the competition. Later that year, she also won the championship in New York. Heineman is hence considered to be the first national video game tournament champion.

Annotated Bibliogrpahy
1. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134614/the_burger_speaks_an_interview_.php?print=1 This in-depth interview talks about her early life, her interests and how she got started in the video game industry. This will help me in editing and expanding upon the first half of my article.

2. http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_rebecca_heineman.html This is another in-depth interview discussing her inspirations, early education and how she came up with some of her video game titles which will also add more bulk to the article since right now it is really light.

3. BARTON, MATT. HONORING THE CODE ConverBold textsations with Great Game Designers. CRC PRESS, 2017. This book contains conversations with great video game designers and she is featured in-depth in Chapter 3.

Checking In
Looks like you have started the workplan, annotated bibliography, and your article contributions, though they are not yet completed. Please complete them ASAP.

Next step is to peer review one of your classmate’s articles. Like your own, these will be on their sandbox pages. You should be able to see who is assigned each article on the Assigned Articles tab, so click on their username to find their sandbox. Remember, you had a training on this, which you can rely on. Feel free to email me if you have questions. --Theredproject (talk) 23:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Don't see a Peer Review
I have looked through your contributions, and I don't see a peer review of one of your classmates' work. If I have missed the edits, please let me know. --Theredproject (talk) 22:00, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

I am sorry professor I didn't actually hit publish on the peer review I did until after I saw your message and checked. I submitted one on Saturday.

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