User talk:MochaSwirl

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What do you think of creating a class forum? Colorfulsocks (talk)

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 * It would be a great idea, especially for collaborative work. MochaSwirl

Hi Mocha! What do you think of this? I found it on Pr. Rolph's discussion page. It might function as a central forum for our class. Or at least a mailing list, of sorts.


 * Added myself. Thanks. --MochaSwirl (talk) 19:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello MochaSwirl! I just found a couple books in the library that also referenced the Kotatsu briefly... but I think it would be easiest to just meet in the library today and crank out what we have so there's no confusion. What do you think? Are you free to meet today after seminar sometime? (It sucks you can't tag ppl on wikipedia) But i'll ask User:Bgg2 if he's free today.

Kairi p (talk) 18:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)Kairi

Other good sources to reference that might have cultural information:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wtkm3O3nWXkC&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=origin+of+kotatsu&source=bl&ots=nRbpjR6ENE&sig=UkMG0gt_N5FCGO2gtADdvsxZ1so&hl=en&ei=RT-TTsj0NrH-iQLzpYDNCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=origin%20of%20kotatsu&f=false

http://www.designbyaika.com/introduction-to-kotatsu-kotatsugake/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kairi p (talk • contribs) 22:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Okay I added the history section to the kotatsu page! Feel free to go in and make edits of course :) I'll probably comb through it again later.

Kairi p (talk) 23:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)Kairi

Class Assignments/Practicum
List of articles/topics I'm planning on editing:


 * Tasseography
 * Funerary cult
 * Two-spirit

NPOV Statement In Evolution Article

 "The central concept of natural selection is the evolutionary fitness of an organism.[89] Fitness is measured by an organism's ability to survive and reproduce, which determines the size of its genetic contribution to the next generation.[89] However, fitness is not the same as the total number of offspring: instead fitness is indicated by the proportion of subsequent generations that carry an organism's genes."

This can be considered an NPOV statement partly because "evolutionary fitness" is referred to as a "concept", not a fact. Although the concept is widely accepted by the scientific community, the statement must remain "open" in order to include worldviews that do not accept evolution as scientific fact.--MochaSwirl (talk) 19:47, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Ten Changes to Different Articles

Please see the contrib page for details. All changes were made to improve grammar rather than content. There is one change for an internal link on the temple article. And now for something completely different, an external link.

Collaborative Project: Group 2

Members: MochaSwirl, bgg2, kairi_p

Project: Adding historical and cultural sections to the article kotatsu.

Discussion on Citizendium

The site is an online encyclopedia project that was originally intended to be a split-off of the English Wikipedia. It encourages original research by experts and enforces strict editing. One of the main goals is to form an "expert culture" that takes its authors seriously and produces a reliable resource.

Discussion on Transparency

Although this is an open-source community, there is still a bit of an "old boy" mentality. This is not to be considered a bad thing, necessarily. It just means that certain people are expected to be accountable to other users in keeping the site in check and acclimating newbies to the community. Certainly a lot better than flat-out deleting users upon the first offense. Please check out the Ted Bundy article for an example of how this process works. There is a debate regarding copyright images.

Halloween Assignment

Minor expansion in the "history" section on the article tasseography.

Gender Assignment

Some clean-up on the article Bissu.

Final

Continuing work on the tasseography article.



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Why "tomato"? Whatever happened to just plain "red"?