User talk:Jemaher

Professor for Wiki Ed/Indiana University, Bloomington/Representation and the Body (Spring 2018).

Some tips for the class
Hello Jemaher, and welcome. I hope your course works out well.

I've left some messages on the Talk page of one of your students,, regarding their edits at Transfeminism; I hope they are helpful. Some of the points I made there may be relevant to some or all your students; in particular, the one about use of proper terminology in trans-related topics. Also the passing mention about the MOS:GENDERID guideline (kind of a standard, a rule you could say); and also the essays (opinions; not a guideline, but could be helpful) at WP:TRANSNAME and WP:GENDER. Also, I reverted the edit of another of your students, at the same article.

Students should properly add inline citations for their edits, according to Wikipedia's guidelines on verifiability and use of reliable sources. If they are using JStor to access articles, they should properly cite using a Jstor stable url, and fill out a cite journal template properly, with author(s), article title, journal name, volume, issue, number, pages, year, doi, and other data as available. They should not use an Indiana University url that nobody here at Wikipedia can access, but a JStor "stable url" that can be accessed by anyone (for the abstract; fulltext access will still require JStor access, but won't have to be through IU).

A JStor stable url looks like this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3793107.

Here's what the journal reference underlying that JStor stable url looks like, exported in APA format using the JStor Export feature to automatically create a citation:"Willetts, H., & Harada, Y. (1984). A Review of Apothecial Production by Monilinia Fungi in Japan. Mycologia, 76(2), 314-325. doi:10.2307/3793107"Students may use the following cut-paste code, as a starting point for filling out citations for all of their JStor references:

Here's how to place the fields from the exported APA citation above into the cite journal field:

Here's what using that citation will look like, in running text in an article:"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur finibus neque mattis, suscipit lorem sed, consectetur ipsum. Cras at sodales ante. Maecenas vel arcu sed sem gravida blandit. Mauris sit amet ex rhoncus, mattis mi sed, aliquet orci. Duis risus est, fermentum id nisi a, semper blandit est. Vestibulum vitae vestibulum augue." Scroll down to the bottom of this post, to see how that reference will display in a real article page.

JStor has a page that explains how to find the stable url and export a citation; all students should bookmark Citation Management: Exporting Citations from JSTOR and follow the instructions there for exporting a citation. Regarding what students citing JSTOR (or other database at the university) are doing now: they are doing something like this, using the IU domain (real example from one of your students):

This is going to be completely useless to anybody here at Wikipedia, unless they are an IU student. It also lacks a journal name, an author, and an article title; that is: it completely fails Verifiability and will cause their entire edit to be rejected. As a general rule, if you see a student adding a reference with an iu.edu domain such as the one above, it is probably wrong. (Exceptions for any material at iu.edu publicly available.) Material found at other IU databases other than JStor, are subject to the same rules on verifiability; each editor is responsible for including properly formatted in-line citations. Remember: generally speaking, if it has an iu.edu domain, it's not verifiable. More on this at JSTOR.

Courtesy-pinging Shalor, and adding EvergreenFir who has recently fixed up a couple of things at the same Transfeminism article being edited by three of your students, and whom I trust a lot in these matters. If you have any Wikipedia-related questions, feel free to contact me at my talk page, or here on your talk page by pinging me. You can also use Help me to get help from knowledgeable volunteers. Again, best wishes for your course. Mathglot (talk) 10:07, 8 February 2018 (UTC)