User talk:Hatigges

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Hello! This is a frightening journey, mostly due to this being a new experience. I'll surely utilize my resources! Hatigges (talk) 14:45, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

You're not as lost as you think!
Hey there, Hatigges!

If you need any help along the way, feel free to contact me! You can schedule a meeting by emailing me! My office hours are 12:30-2pm on Wednesdays and 9:30-10:30 pm on Thursdays. But if those don't work for you, I can totally make a different time work. I'm really interested in your idea about editing the Queer Theology page! It looks like it could benefit from some attention with content, structure, and links to other pages. A completely approachable project!

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 23:33, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well this is a relief! I'm glad to hear your feedback on my idea regarding, Queer Theology, I grabbed Professor Treat today requesting some literature and hope to expand this page. My confidence is at a 2 regarding communicating on here. I assume I can respond right on my page, following the correct colon, or rather indentation. Is this correct? See, you're helping me already! Thank you so much! Hatigges (talk) 23:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Hang in there & some feedback
Hi Hatigges. I see from your talk page that things are feeling challenging for you regarding Wikipedia. I'm glad you're reaching out to Abbey for advice. I'm happy to help you, too. I'm curious how you are planning to tie queer theology to youth studies. Are there sociological or anthropological research about the topic? What are your thoughts?

Please revise your user page so all the links work. Abbey can help you with this, as could the Tea House. Anything you see in red signifies a disconnected link. For some of them, like juvenile delinquency, the issue is that the second and beyond words are not capitalized.

On your article edit, some things to think about: You did the citation and reference perfectly. The title looks interesting. In reading the rest of the article, does the place you put the sentence in look like the best fit? It takes some thinking to edit a fact into the place where it sits just right.

Ok, onward! You can do it! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 02:48, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Feedback on user page
Hello Hatigges. I read over your user page and I think you did a great job of encapsulating the goals for our Wikipedia page for our Global Youth Studies course. I am a sociology major as well, so I find this project very intriguing! I think that researching Queer theology and Coming out would be very interesting. I was struck by how little information there was on the Queer theology page. This information could easily be extended to a global perspective.

I am not sure if we need to capitalize our links when they are incorporated into a sentence unless you are directly referring to an article. I also think that there may have been a link error in your Scavenger area of interest since it took me to a page on animal scavengers. Good luck with your project. I look forward to seeing the progress that our class makes this semester. --Locke Perkins (talk) 20:58, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Possible Directions
Hi there!

I’m not sure I understand—are you wanting to create a new article called ‘timepass’ or are you looking to incorporate the term into an existing article?

A few students in previous iterations of this course have done new articles about ‘youth in X country’. I checked and there isn’t an article about ‘Youth in South Africa’ yet. Doing something like this could be a good idea if you’re worried about only providing information about your specific area of interest. This way you can talk about all sorts of things that would provide a context for the concept of timepass—economy, health, family, education, leisure time, and more!

Check out Youth in Denmark, an article a student worked on last fall, for ideas about structuring and topics! Since the student made her article, lots has been added to it, but that’s the good thing about Wikipedia. If you don’t know something or have a lot of information, other people will often go in and add more.

One more advantage I see in doing an article about Youth in South Africa is all the different ways you connect it to the Wikipedia community. You can add it to ‘see also’ sections in articles about youth from different parts of the world, connect it to the South Africa page and maybe even higher traffic pages like Apartheid and HIV/AIDS. I hope this has been at least a little bit helpful for you! If you want to meet up and talk about more ideas, feel free to send me an email—my email address should be on the syllabus.

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 16:53, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I will check out that page for sure. I think I was a bit apprehensive about starting my own page. However, it is equally troubling for me to try and "squeeze" in information on an already existing page. I think I will go with your suggestion. As you know, we should edit or create a page that interests us as individuals, this is a difficult feat because with every passing article and chapter we read, I have been fascinated! In this context, starting an original page may be best for me. Thanks so much for your help!

Hatigges (talk) 21:20, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposal Feedback
Hatigges,

I’m glad to see you’ve decided to start a new article! I think your idea for a lead in paragraph is a good start because it gives readers a good understanding of the group of individuals you’re talking about. While it’s important to not be too repetitive in your lead in, I also think that you should introduce a few of the major or defining issues that youth in South Africa face. You plan on talking about language and race—are there any other things you feel are critical to introduce early on? I know you mentioned HIV/AIDS later.

Your subheadings also seem to fit not only the information you’ve found through journal articles, but also look a lot like the other Wikipedia articles for youth in other countries. It may also be useful to talk about the institutional structure of things like the education and the legal system. When can people vote? Join a political party? How many years are there of required schooling? I think that answering questions like this will help give readers a context for all the statistics and information you’re requiring. Like, imagine if someone didn’t know that you couldn’t vote in the United States until you were 18. Wouldn’t it seem like youth were really politically apathetic?

I know coding can be a really challenging part about Wikipedia, so it might be helpful if you find a structure for a Wikipedia article on youth that you like and want to mimic and to copy and paste the article into your sandbox (deleting their information and leaving the bare bones).

Best of luck!

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 18:43, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. I will take your advice. Unfortunately, another student is also creating the exact same page. This particular student has had experience in South Africa with the youth population and would certainly make a valuable contribution while creating this article. So, I am going to start from scratch and create "Youth in Nigeria". Regardless, I am grateful for your feedback and will apply your insight. Hatigges (talk) 02:04, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Youth in Nigeria has been accepted
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DYK assistance
Hello! I recently created the article Youth in Nigeria and was interested in entering it for the DYK review. I did review the process, but am still unsure how to do it. Can you offer me any additional help with this process? Thanks in advance. Hatigges (talk) 01:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Hatigges. I can get the ball rolling. I've started a nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Youth in Nigeria. Did you have any hooks in mind for the article? gobonobo  + c 06:50, 21 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The open nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Youth in Nigeria still needs a hook. I've provided an example of what a hook might look like over at Talk:Youth in Nigeria. Additional issues that need to be addressed are outlined on the nomination page by a reviewer. I'm willing to help you with the nomination, but this will require some time on your part. gobonobo  + c 17:29, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I did in fact try and create a hook and it did not format properly. I believe I was supposed to create a bullet, followed by a space, etc. Am I supposed to actually state the words, "Did you know" within the article, or on the nomination page? I apologize in advance for my ignorance on this matter. Additionally, I will ask my instructor to help me. I sure appreciate you time. Hatigges (talk) 03:32, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't see where you tried to create one. The hook is going to appear only on the nomination page. It will be formatted to read as a question that starts with "Did you know... that... ?". The words "did you know" are excluded though. Again, see the main page below the featured article to see what they look like once they appear there. Don't worry too much about the formatting. Myself and other editors can help clean up anything improperly formatted. For the nomination to proceed, we need you to provide a hook and to address concerns on the nomination page as they come up. gobonobo  + c 11:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * No, you would not have seen it. I put in within the article. I changed it back after realizing I was wrong. I did ask my instructor this morning about it and she confirmed it was not in the actual article. I'll get this accomplished later today. Hatigges (talk) 19:57, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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