User talk:Mikeefstathios

Peer Editing
hey Mike! I fixed a broken link for you and read over your article. I think it looks really good and maybe you should ask your mentor if your article is finished at this point. Good luck!

Mentor
G'day Mike, I would be more then happy to be your mentor. I will within the next 24 hours create a mentor page that we can use to communicate, teach and learn. Cheers and welcome to Wikipedia. Zoo Pro 04:12, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * First off I would like to ask you about your experiences with Wikipedia so I know how best to assist you as a mentor. If you could please answer the following questions for me.
 * Have you ever edited Wikipedia before?
 * No I haven't but we are going to learn how in this class
 * What are your hobbies?
 * I love sports and hanging out with my friends. I'm in a fraternity on campus and that takes up a lot of my time. I also love hanging out with my family and being at home.
 * Do you have any pets?
 * Yes, I have two dogs. A black lab named Lilly and a shitzu named Buddy
 * Have you read the five pillars of wikipedia?
 * No I haven't but our next homework assignment is to read them.
 * Do you have any questions about Wikipedia or anything else?
 * Not at the moment but I'm sure I will in the future.


 * I know some of those questions dont relate to Wikipedia, however answering them will give you a bit of practice at editing and lets me know how best to discuss and compare things for you related to Wikipedia. Feel free to ask me any questions you like I dont mind at all. It would also be helpfull for you to add my talk page to your "Watchlist" (if you dont know how to do this or dont know what a watchlist dont worry thats a question you can ask me). Feel free to reply here and I will answer you within a few hours. Cheers and once again welcome Zoo Pro 07:18, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I am doing U.S public policy initiative for Wikipedia. I'd appreciate it if any changes are made to the Veteran's pension page to let me know why they are made. I'd doing this for a grade so I would really appreciate it.

Hello
Just checking in to see how things are going? Zoo Pro 12:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Zoopro,

I just picked my topic to edit and research on. I chose the stub "veteran's pension." I'm not quite sure but I think the assignment is to research articles, journals, etc. on the topic and then edit and add information to the specific stub. Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas or guidance for me. Thanks!! Mike

Checking in
ZooPro, your mentor, has a couple of real life problems preventing him from spending much time on Wikipedia. I'm here to fill in for him in the meantime. Do you have any questions/need any help?  bibliomaniac 1  5  22:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes! I'm working on the veterans pension article. I was wondering if you could think of anything that I could add to the article or if you could go in and see if there are any improvements that can be made. Thank you very much for your help. Is everything with zoopro okay?

I am back
G'day Mike, I have returned to wikipedia after a longer then expected break due to some natural disasters happening in Australia. How are you going? What progress have you made? Do you require any assistance or want me to look over anything or answer any questions? I hope things have been good for you and my apologies for being away for so long. Kind regards Zoo Pro 13:55, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey ZooPro, I'm sorry to hear about the natural disasters happening in Australia. Are you okay? I'm doing alright. I have made some progress but I think more needs to be done. So far I have added a couple of paragraphs and made some of the lists that were already on there parallel. I also just recently added a lead. I was wondering if you could give me anything else to look up or add. I feel like all of my research is very repetitive so it's been kind of difficult picking out the important things. Let me know if there is anything else I can add or change. Thanks!


 * I am okay thank you for asking, sadly some of our zoo's in my region are not. I have had a good look at your article, apart from cleaning up the references (purely manual of style, making it look neater) I dont think the article could be improved any further without some extensive sources or information. Sometimes articles are never meant to be huge that take 15 mins to read, this is clearly an article that is by its very nature and cause limited in its potential. I commend you on your hard work, you have edited it correctly and applied the skills required to become an experienced editor. I will provide you with a more detailed feedback in the coming days. Cheers Zoo Pro 12:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Comment on your peer review
Hi Mike, I am reviewing the article you peer reviewed yesterday, and it needs copyediting big time. This is the place where you help by co-editing. Cindy Allen (talk) 18:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I will help you with that Mike. Zoo Pro 00:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks ZooPro. The article I'm copyediting is Food Policy. Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it.

The School of WRTC at JMU
I appreciate your doing a class project on this program, but the article has far too much detail for its own good. Please sign your posts with four tildes (these thingees ~ ). Bearian (talk) 19:54, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

I get graded on the amount of information I have. I'll delete the article after I am done with it. You might think it has too much information but please just let it be. It'll all be gone in three weeks.Mikeefstathios (talk) 19:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)


 * A few problems here. First of all, the article was speedily deleted because it was nothing more than advertising, albeit for a state school rather than a commercial enterprise.  Second, and more to the point, Wikipedia is not your playplace to write articles for grades and load them up with crap, on purpose, because of some professor's misguided notions on what makes a passing grade on a Wikipedia article, and then expect to have them deleted when the assignment's over.  That's not how we play around here.  We play for keeps.  You write an article according to our standards when writing on here.  Always disappointing as a 2003 graduate of JMU to see current JMU students and staff misusing Wikipedia for advertising purposes, even if it is about JMU.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

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