User talk:OkfochushTikabi

Draft:Sara Goldrick-Rab
Really nice work on the draft. I have some neutrality things to clean up, but I think it can go live soon. You were pretty thorough for your first edit—do you have prior experience editing Wikipedia? Also do you have any connection with the subject? czar ⨹   22:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I really didn't know what I was doing and was trying to model based on other articles, mostly on biographies of other professors that seemed well written. (That approach seems to be working for me in academia, so I thought it might work here, too...) I'm trying to start writing more consistently and when I noticed she didn't have a page, it seemed like an interesting non-academic-journal-article-type project to help me get into the habit of writing. I wrote it all in Evernote on my computer, so it all ended up pasted at once. I made some small edits years ago, but haven't edited in a couple of years. (I think? A long while. All of the edits I can remember were before I moved to another states in 2009.) That said, I have written sample Wikipedia-style articles for class assignments twice in undergraduate classes. A friend helped me figure out why the page was locked, because that was pretty confusing. (Sorry to step on your toes, by the way--I did notice the sources and was so confused because I still had those pages open when I tried to create the draft, too! I didn't realize you had already started until I figured out looking at the draft history.) I worried that the administrator who locked it would be particularly sensitive to the article seeming too promotional or not clearly demonstrating notability, since the page had apparently been deleted before for those types of reasons, so I tried to balance it as best I could. I wasn't happy with my work on that, so I would really value your assistance there. I'm not completely sure what you mean about connection. I interact with the subject on Twitter occasionally, read her work, and have seen her at conferences, but I don't have any other connection. I found all of my sources from ProQuest, LexisNexis, and Google News. Thank you again for your help! OkfochushTikabi (talk) 23:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I looked at the page you linked (I didn't notice the link before replying). I haven't been paid by anyone for a Wikipedia edit ever. I've also never been employed by her, her lab, UW-Madison, or any previous institution she was affiliated with in the past. I haven't been employed by any of the people in the criticism section. And, finally, I am not her, which would also be suggested by never being employed by UW-Madison. If you have any more specific questions, please feel free to ask. I tried to cover everything that seemed relevant to conflict of interest from the linked page. Thanks. OkfochushTikabi (talk) 23:30, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * No worries and my toes are fine. Re: conflicts of interest (COI), it's always worth asking, especially when an article was deleted previously partly for its promotional content. (I have my own to declare on the talk page.) I actually thought you would be the person who asked me recently to draft an article for her. Two recommendations: (1) it's usually worth declaring your previous accounts on your user page (unless they're never to be touched again, see the sock puppet policy) so your history can be connected, even if the accounts stay separate, and (2) as more of a heads up, SGR's article may still not pass the notability criteria since she doesn't unambiguously pass the professor notability criteria or have secondary, independent sources solely about her. She obviously has enough secondary coverage (blurbs and passing mentions) to write a few things about her, though, but there's still enough gray that the page could go up for deletion. (As you mentioned in your edit summary, there's also the "average prof test", which also has some gray area.) Anyway, I'll do some more cleanup over the weekend, but feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and welcome (back) to Wikipedia! "Education" is among the worst covered topics on Wikipedia, so it'd be great to see you around. czar ⨹   03:23, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

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