User talk:Profmwilliams

Peer review example
Here is an example of a fictitious peer review of a fictitious article that would be considered complete. Notice that the reviewers address each part of criterion 5 of the Wikipedia assignment and make suggestions that incorporate new ideas and the group's planned revisions. The suggestions for meeting each part of criterion 5 are specific in that they give the group a clear sense of how to meet the criteria. The more specific, the better!

The article revisions are on the way to completing all parts of criterion 5 of the Wikipedia assignment. We have explained each part and made suggestions for improvement below:

5a. The group has currently added 200 words to the article, which is 150 words short of the 350-word minimum. On the article talk page, the group said that they plan to add two sections on the history of policing and current issues in policing. It might be better to just add one of these sections and make sure it's 150 words. Otherwise, each section might only be 75 words, which wouldn't be enough to cover each section. (Note that there could also be the opposite problem: if the group had only added 100 words and they wanted to add a very narrow section, then it may not be enough to get them to the 350-word minimum.)

5b. The current revisions focus on the topic, but the section on the legal issues related to policing goes into too much detail. We suggest condensing the two paragraphs about the Supreme Court's reasoning in each case into one broader paragraph.

5c. The current revisions display a little bit of bias in that they focus on one side of the argument that the police are essentially corrupt. In the revisions, focus on adding some information about the side of the argument that says that not all police are corrupt. It could be useful to bring in information about different types of corrupt officers and departments to show that corruption isn't just one-sided.

5d. For the most part, information is correctly referenced. The sentence, "Americans tend to trust the police" needs a source.

5e. The revisions do a good job of summarizing information without bringing in original research. (Note that bringing evidence together in a new way to make an original argument would constitute "original research." As you review your articles, be on the lookout for information that goes beyond summarizing the current literature.)

5f. Most of the revisions are well-written, clear, and concise, follow copyright laws, and include few or no mechanical errors. There is a grammar error in the first sentence of the opening section that needs to be fixed.

5g. The revisions are organized within and between sections and the article seems to flow with the new revisions.

5h. Almost all of the revisions comply with style guidelines. The third section needs to be a sub-section of the second section instead of its own new section.

5i. The revisions so far don't link to other Wikipedia cases. You could link "Rodney King," "Use of force continuum," and "Community policing" to those pages.

5j. So far, the revisions don't include any images. Some ideas for what to add would be images related to protests over the police and/or pictures of officers who have been major players in combating corruption in the U.S.

Grade
I made revisions to assignment 4Dionnecoe (talk) 18:18, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Education noticeboard


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 * Hello, I moved your request to the appropriate place at Education_noticeboard. Did you do anything unusual with the software? I would not expect to see the software put your request there. I suspect someone changed the software and broke something, and it placed your request in an unusual place.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  20:49, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for moving it to the correct page. I clicked on the "Request the 'instructor' right" button at the bottom of this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Training/For_educators/Setting_up_your_course_2. Profmwilliams (talk) 21:07, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Ambassador
Hi -- I got your note asking if I would be an ambassador for your class this fall. I'm actually already committed to helping another class, but I'd be glad to keep an eye on yours too. However, if you do find someone else willing to be an ambassador, that would be best, in case I am short of time with the two classes. Let me know the name of your course once you've created it. Thanks -- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message Mike Christie. No one else has responded to my requests for an ambassador, so I would be grateful for your help with the course. The course is called CJ2300 Policing: History, Theory, and Practice.Profmwilliams (talk) 18:19, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * OK; glad to help where I can. Please let your students know I'd be happy to answer any questions they have. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 14:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Students posting from IP addresses
Hi -- just wanted to let you know that I see some of your students posting their usernames on your course talk page, while editing as IPs. There's nothing wrong with doing this, but I wanted to let you know that this makes it clear which IP address is being used by which student. To some people, that's a privacy concern. In a university environment, of course, the IP is probably just the address of the campus wireless network and doesn't have any association to the student at all, so I don't think it's an issue, but if you get asked about privacy and anonymity I wanted to be sure you were aware of the connection.

I'll keep an eye on the talk page, and I'll watch the articles that the students choose to work on; let me know as the semester goes along if there's anything I can do to help. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:58, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. I reminded them in our last class to be sure to sign in when they make edits. I'll keep reminding them until it becomes habit. Profmwilliams (talk) 04:14, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Related changes
I got your note; thanks for the heads up. Not sure if you already know this, but a good quick way to see what your students are doing is to click on the "Related changes" link in the "Tools" section of the sidebar on the left of your course page. The related changes function shows all recent changes to pages linked from a given page, so if you were to delete links to articles that your students aren't editing, or perhaps create another page with just the links they are editing, you would be able to see recent changes to all of them with a single click. Hope that's useful. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 03:35, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip! I was wondering if there was an easy way to see what they were doing. They have to sign up for pages by October 3, so after that I'll delete the pages they're not working on. Profmwilliams (talk) 16:31, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

On the subject of feedback
You posted to my talk page that I needed to add an internal link to my chosen article. I have done this as requested TheTurf (talk) 18:41, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

I have posted everything for the Unit 4 assignments. I think. Bryan Wicker (talk) 02:18, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Changes to assignment
I went into my talk page and added new section plus the external link that is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cj2300 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't see the new section on your user page. Perhaps it didn't save or maybe you weren't signed in when you edited your user page. Profmwilliams (talk) 22:40, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Now I see what happened, you added it to the Course talk page rather than your user page. Make sure you're logged in, then go to your user page and complete the same steps as you did before. Profmwilliams (talk) 22:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

CJ 2300 Reworking/rewriting one of my posts notice
I just wanted to make a note/leave a message that i am in the process of reworking what i has posted on my topic Prison-industrial complex as it did gete taken down but that it may take some time as i am trying to tackle my other classes/theory paper/exams this weekend. I got a reply back from Collect (talk) about a few ways to fix my post and i will try and work on them this weekend and into next week. Once i find another source i should be able to rewrite and fix my errors but i am a little worried that because it will not be on the topics main page for review by others, as part of the class assignment, that it may hurt the overall grade. If you have any suggestions going forward about what i should focus on to stay on track for class goals/assignments i would appreciate it. Shadowbolt7 (talk) 21:13, 30 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I just wanted to give you an update that i have put up a new post on my topic but unfortunately part of it has been taken down. I am at this moment in the process of talking with Collect (talk) to try and fix this but i am hesitant of what the outcome of the project will be. I think my writing skills are better at writing opinion pieces than neutral points.

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