User talk:Redcknight

A note
Redcknight, you need to do two things. First of all, you need to establish your username as an account...that is, just CREATE one. No big deal. The second thing: you need to read through WP:MOS and concentrate on the reference styles for CITEWEB. Lastly, 100% of your article looks like WP:OR because of your lack of footnote citations. I know you do not intend to have this so you will find these answers in WP:MOS. Also, welcome to Wiki !! Read through the Welcome editing etcetera instructions. I'll be happy to reclassify your STUB into START in the meantime because it is a START article. No problem. Finally, you need to re-edit the peer review page (which you entered) and remove your request. Your article is not yet ready for a peer review. Read through the instructions about B-class articles (on that Peer Review page) and then look at the guidelines (criteria) for B-class (by clicking on the small B in the quality rating template. Then, when you feel ready for a B-class rating, drop me a note on my User talk:ThsQ and I will be happy to classify your article as B.  Any questions?  Just ask anyway... ThsQ (talk) 14:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, me again. I answered you here.ThsQ (talk) 15:53, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Navigating the assessment process
Welcome to Wikipedia. I responded to another editor about this process and thought it might be helpful to post part of here as well.

Peer review is not an automatic part of the quality class assessment process, it something that may be requested to garner suggestions for improving the article in the actual assessment process. Bot-reviews are perfectly helpful in that at the point when an article may be ready to pass from the B-class and below levels, there are some necessary technical requirements for which the bot-review can provide guidance. I would suggest that a new user join a WikiProject of his or her interest and work within the project's assessment department to learn more about the assessment project. Assessments of stub, C-class and B-class are fairly easy to make and the requirements are quite clear so those can be done by anyone. A good place to study the requirements for all biography articles can be reviewed at WikiProject Biography/Assessment. All projects have more detailed requirements but all are based on the same general assessment criteria. The assessment process is very organized once an article passes that point, and teams of editors actually work together to come to consensus on assessment and critique for those articles.

An article's quality starts with STUB, then C-CLASS, then B-CLASS. At that point, a PEER REVIEW may or may not be requested, depending on issues that might exist around an article. In any case, once that has happened or not, the next level is a GA (GOOD ARTICLE) REVIEW. There are specific requirements for each level which are all outlined in the assessment sections of the various WikiProjects, but all projects follow a generally proscribed criteria. The good article requirements are listed at WP:GA?. When an article is ready for a GA review, one would submit a request at WP:GAN for assessment, and generally, the article is reviewed by persons who are well-experienced and informed on those requirements. A WP:GA is a mark of achievement for the article and isn't grantly lightly. The article must go through the process to be listed as a good article. I would not advise a new editor to jump in so far as to conduct reviews on articles at this level until that person has some solid editing and process experience on Wikipedia, simply because one must be quite familiar with what is required, through experience. In any case, once an article has been listed as a good article, the next level is A-class. A-class is a relatively new level and is still in its formative stages. Not all projects are presently assessing articles at this level because of that. Once an article has met all the requirements at lower levels, it may be nominated for feature article status. The criteria for featured articles is at WP:FA? and requesting a peer review may be most helpful at this point. Criteria at this point is very exacting and articles are nominated for FA at WP:FAC. Once an article has been classified as WP:FA, major changes should no longer be required or conducted without involved discussion at the article's talk page. I am leaving a very useful template to help with reference formatting. I hope all of this is helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at my talk page. Wildhartlivie (talk) 23:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Guide to referencing
Click on "show" on the right of the orange bar to open contents.

Thanks for note
Thanks for the acknowledgement of help on John Wright. Not sure why but the honourary doctorate was not attached?? I'll overlook it this time, but do remind any students who don't contribute to your wikiversity then I'm willing to take their scroll secondhand (I'm sure you can scribble "Victuallers" over where their name was and initial it on behalf of the uni ....it works for me! (I'm hoping for Joint Honours in International Humour - any chance?) Victuallers (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

SUNY New Paltz project
I see that you have had an account for some time, but if you have not run a class project before you may find some advice helpful. Have a look at WP:School and university projects, and list your project there. It's also worth looking at:
 * WP:School and university projects/Instructions for teachers and lecturers
 * User:Jbmurray/Advice

Your students have set up an account at User:Meaghanplatania. Another user has already advised them of the important point that, for reasons concerned with the license terms and the attribution of contributions, Wikipedia accounts must be for single individuals only. Shared accounts are not permitted, and may be blocked at any time. Each student who wishes to edit needs to register an account.

I have put a Welcome notice on Meaghanplatania's talk page with some useful links, but it would be worth your drawing your students' attention in particular to Wikipedia's three key content policies:
 * WP:Verifiability
 * WP:Neutral point of view
 * WP:No original research

They should also read WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, a useful summary of the way we like to work: if you see a change that will improve the encyclopedia, be BOLD and make it, but if another user reverts it, do not re-revert which may lead to an WP:Edit war; discuss the change on the article talk page and try to reach WP:Consensus, failing which, use WP:Dispute resolution.

One way in which a Wikipedia article differs from a typical student paper is that the latter's object is often to collate established facts and draw a new conclusion from them. In Wikipedia terms this is called WP:SYNTHESIS and, as part of the No original research policy, is not allowed.

Best wishes for your project: help can be found at the WP:Help desk, or by putting  (with two curly brackets each side) on a talk page with a question below it.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * A note about your project was posted on the administrators' noticeboard at WP:ANI (because there have been some disasters in this line in the past, so it is as well to have people watching), but I tell you only for information, you do not need to comment there unless you wish. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Ingram Frizer
Have you had a chance to look at User:Wordforteens's edits on that page? --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:49, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Mayflower edits
Greetings, Professor. A group of your students has edited the Mayflower article and left some unfinished business. Please see this and this. Your attention or theirs is needed within a reasonable time, or the added edits may have to be removed entirely as possible copyright violations, which would be unfortunate. If you have any questions on this please ask me on my talk page. Hertz1888 (talk) 05:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The "problem" has been addressed and, happily, turns out to be a non-problem. Please see my response here.  I think these students deserve very high grades. Hertz1888 (talk) 07:35, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Sir Orfeo
Hi Prof. Mulready, I ran into a student/some students of yours on the talk page of this article. Please confirm to them that they need to get individual accounts; it sounds like a group with one single account. Also, if you have any questions or if there's anything I can do, ping me or drop me a line on my talk page. Stay warm. Drmies (talk) 00:42, 20 November 2014 (UTC)