User talk:Learning Forevermore

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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Sunray (talk) 07:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC) Sunray (talk) 07:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Symbolic interactionism
Thank you for your contributions to Symbolic interactionism. I noted that you attempted to add inline sources for the text you added to to the "Critique" section, but got an error message. It took me awhile to figure it out, but the problem turned out to be fairly simple: Each reference has to be closed using " ". I added those. Much of what you might want to know about citations can be found in the policy on Citing sources. One thing I wasn't able to do was find a reliable source for Negotiated Order Theory. This one: looks like a wiki, which usually aren't considered reliable sources (i.e., not a book or peer-reviewed article). We can use it if there's nothing better, but you may know a better cite.

Its great to have another sociologically-trained editor around (Soc. isn't as well represented as some of the other disciplines and the articles reflect that). You many want to check out WikiProject Sociology. Sunray (talk) 07:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks much Sunray. I am completely new to the syntax here. I didn't know about the slash. I know I need to read through all the commands and introductory articles for authors. I just impulsively had to add to that one entry since it was weak and I'm kind of obsessive-compulsive (not clinically diagnosable, though). It was off the top of my head, but I know the topic like the back of my hand. None of what I wrote is inaccurate, but I'll rewrite with more thought put into it. FYI, the mention of negotiated order theory, and that one reference that you noted was not a "reliable source," was actually there before I significantly rewrote the entry. I only left it because the previous author had it in there. I can certainly (and will) clean up that entire entry further and make sure there are only reliable sources, refereed academic journals or books accepted as academically sound within the field (which in this case is obviously sociology, an area I work in as a teaching faculty member, researcher, and author). I know there is a need for more sociology in Wikipedia entries. A lot of my students look here when an orientation/perspective, theory, concept, or referenced empirical study isn't clear to them from the assigned readings, and/or for supplemental information regarding things from the assigned readings or class discussions. Sometimes they come back with information that is problematically incomplete, isn't quite right but is close, or sometimes even clearly incorrect. I know a great many people refer to Wikipedia as a source of knowledge, sometimes their exclusive source on a given topic, so I realized there was a need for sociologists such as myself to contribute here more. I'll be working over time to contribute to various entries. And I'll learn how to use this website's software more effectively! Thanks again, very much, for the note on inline source syntax.Learning Forevermore 09:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)