User talk:Lweyandt

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Hello, Lweyandt, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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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Wiki Assignment 3
Hey group! I thought I would be the first to start this. So, on blackboard it says we have to start discussing topics. He has a list under Wikipedia resources that we can choose from and we have to decide on two of them. I will email him and tell him that we are using your (Logan) talk page to communicate. So after looking through the list, does anyone have any topics that stick out in their mind? BrookeMcCullough (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey group! I started looking through the list of psychology stubs and I found a few topics that I thought might work for our project; the topics I found were: Psychosocial, Emotionalism, Wolf-Spence Tests and Travel aversion. Take some time to look over these stub articles and let me know if you guys think any of these topics could be possible candidates for our wikipedia project. Also, feel free to look through the psych stub list on your own for other possible topics. JDWwiki123 (talk) 20:58, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Josh I looked over your choices and I like the Psychosocial and Emotionalism topics. Some other Topics I found that would be interesting would be: Resistance (psychoanalysis), Eleanor Maccoby, or Arnold Lazarus. You guys can feel free to read over some of the contributions of the people I listed along with reviewing the previous Resistance (psychoanalysis) wiki page that we could alter and make more interesting. I do recall studying Resistance and feel it would be something we could expand upon and make into a better wiki article. Lweyandt (talk) 20:12, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

So I looked through some of the articles and I found travel aversion pretty interesting. I am not sure where we would find much information on it but it is interesting. I think that doing the project on a person might be nice because we could probably find a lot of information to add to the articles (for example, Arnold Lazarus). That Wolfe-Spence test article was pretty much only one sentence long so that would definitely be one where we could make a lot of improvements on. The resistance topic seems interesting too. Basically I think we should pick a topic that seems interesting but something that we also can find information on. We have a lot of options to choose from. How do you guys want to go about deciding?BrookeMcCullough (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I agree that doing our wiki page on a person would yield more information. In the end I do not care what we do it on as long as it is someone or something we can get a fair amount of credible information. I personally wouldn't mind any of the above listed ideas. I say since both of you have enjoyed the travel aversion topic we could do that plus a person of choice to study since we could derive a lot of information for a person of interest. Lweyandt (talk) 01:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Okay so how about we go with travel aversion and Arnold Lazarus? BrookeMcCullough (talk) 04:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good to me Lweyandt (talk) 18:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Council's comments on your article choices
Travel aversion sounds interesting, but I really wonder if you'll find enough credible material to expand the Wikipedia article. Before settling on this topic, you should really do a thorough search and make sure there will be enough material. Your other topic, Arnold Lazarus, was another group's first choice. If travel aversion doesn't pan out, let me know and I can suggest some other good topics. J.R. Council (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Assignment 4
 Problem:  So one major problem that we can all agree on is that there is no American version of the Mary Henle page. It is only in German. But I translated the page and found that the translation is even kind of wordy. So I think our first step is making a page that is easily readable for English speakers. Not everybody knows how to use a translator or wants to go through the trouble, so this is going to be our first major improvement.

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 Questions for Dr. Council:  Can we still use some of the sources from the German page? I was looking through their references and they have a lot of good English references and I was wondering if we could also use those same ones on our page? Another question I had is, I noticed that there were a lot of works with Henle as the author. Do you think we should use some of these as references? Or are we looking for more autobiographical information? BrookeMcCullough (talk) 15:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

 Problem:  The problem I see is when using an online translator a lot of information gets lost between the lines. When I took spanish many things were manipulated and wrong within the online translators. So I feel a lot of our information will have to be derived from looking over the sources within the wikipedia page about Mary Henle and taking the information from them rather than just interpreting the wiki page.

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 Questions for Dr. Council:  Does it matter if we follow the lay out of the German page along with what Brooke said can we take their references; even the german ones if we interpret them? concerning some of her biggest contributions to psychology do you think we should go in depth on them in separate categories within our wiki page or should we just talk about them and have links attached for the reader to read more into the contributions? Lweyandt (talk) 05:08, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

 Problem:  A problem I foresee us running into that Brooke noted is that translating the information from the German page to our page in English may lead to issues concerning the comprehension and flow of the article. In order for our group to make the most accurate and factual article we will have to revisit the referenced citations from the German article for our English article; because as there is a fair amount of information about Mary Henle in scholarly articles, the great deal of critical information we will use in our article is found in already referenced sources.

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 Questions for Dr. Council:  Do you suggest we use the German page as a template for formatting the English page into a more sound article or follow the design used in the German article? As I mentioned in my problem, a great deal of information regarding Mary Henle that I found in my database search was confined to a short list of sources, do you have any suggestions of other databases we could possibly use to help us find more relevant information on our topic? JDWwiki123 (talk) 05:53, 29 February 2016 (UTC)