User talk:RunIowa

Hi Run Iowa
I like your topic and appreciate your changes. I look forward to the environmental component too. Samjam830 (talk) 20:35, 12 September 2014 (UTC) Welcome to Wikipedia, RunIowa! Thank you for your contributions. I am Lixxx235 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Cheers, Thanks,  L235 - Talk Ping when replying 00:44, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi RunIowa! I'm just practicing my Wiki message skills. Your user page looks good! Hope you have a good weekend. Macmaclee (talk) 17:05, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi
Hello there- The scope of your research in youth engagement sounds interesting. I look forward to working with you throughout the semester. Cheers! Djansen15 (talk) 20:29, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello, RunIowa
Hey, how are you? I'm excited to be learning how to participate in Wikipedia (that being said, I'm not entirely sure this is what Prof. V meant when she said "leave a message". So I hope this is correct. See you in class! Bulldog53420 (talk) 22:02, 5 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prof.Vandegrift (talk • contribs)

Hey Buddy
Hey RunIowa! This should be a fun year! 12thManSeaFan (talk) 03:26, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello
RunIowa, I think the topics you have discussed on your page are very interesting. I especially find Latin American countries to be very interesting, so that is awesome that you are considering specializing in that area of the world. Good luck on the start of your project! Unbroken14 (talk) 20:02, 12 September 2014 (UTC)Unbroken14

Planned edits: Positive youth development
Hi, RunIowa. These proposed changes are what we discussed last week. I think all your ideas are solid. Additionally, you may need to replace the "practical applications" section with something that can delve into examples across social divisions. The next steps are to consider the articles you will use. How will a global south perspective also change the lead paragraph and the explanation of the topic throughout the article? I invite you to post your changes to the talk:Positive youth development page to let others interested know what you plan to do. Keep up the good work! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 21:46, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
RunIowa, you have a great start to your work. I like how you began to sort through the sources and consider where, exactly, you will be incorporating them. How do you plan to work with the article in Portuguese? What kinds of sources are missing for you, in your assessment? The answers to these questions will emerge as you start crafting your article.

You're reading to begin drafting your edits. Good work!

Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 16:41, 4 October 2014 (UTC) 

Feedback
Hi RunIowa. Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm an online ambassador for your Global Youth Studies class. I made some comments about your PYD draft over on my talk page. You can see them here. Keep up the good work and let me know if you have any questions about anything. gobonobo + c 18:36, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Sandbox feedback
I see that your article has a tag that indicates it needs more links to the rest of wikipedia. Remember though, link things so people will be able to understand the context of your article, but also be careful not to link something just because it also has a wikipedia page. Words like 'school' and 'government agencies' are not necessary to link.

An easy change you could do to make the page take on more of a worldview, as the other tag indicates, would be to add another picture or a different picture (since the image at the top in from a North American group). This is a change, though, that I wouldn't make until later on in your work on the article. Cosmetic things aren't as important as content, but it would still be a way to delineate systemic bias.

The five C's section takes up a lot of space of the article and as a reader, I am unsure about how each of these specifically connect to PYD. I would recommend taking the 5 C's out of list form and including more information about the application of the 5 C's or eliminating them altogether.

The 'background' section might fit better somewhere sooner in the article, and would benefit from some section breaks. This is also a section where there are a lot hyperlinks that could be reevaluated for their usefulness. I also think that the origins section could occur earlier.

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 18:09, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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Very well done!
Congrats on completing an outstanding project!!! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 15:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)