User talk:Sefran2

Nice job on training and user page, Savannah! J.R. Council (talk) 03:32, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

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Topic Selection
One of the topics that I was thinking about was forensic psychology because looking at the wiki page already on it, I noticed that it could use more information and reiterate some of the information. sefran2 (talk) 04:57, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

I just emailed Dr. Council about which user talk page we were using! Isley Pie6 (talk) 19:20, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

After looking over the instructions for assignment 3, I looked through chapter 10 to see if there were any topics that looked interesting. Here are some that I found: Franz Mesmer, Ambroise-Auguste Liebeault, Marie "Blanche" Wittmann, Floyd Allport, and Elizabeth Loftus (studies human memory and their application to forensic settings). All of these people except for Marie "Blanche" Wittmann, had pretty developed pages like the Forensic psychology page that you suggested. None of the topics or these people from chapter 10 particularly jumped out at me. Plus a lot of the topics/people in chapter 10 are well known topics/people.

What really caught my eye was the Wikipedia resources page. I looked at the Wikipedia resources page and I think it would be pretty awesome to help develop a page on a female psychologist! They are often forgotten about so it would be nice to help spread the proper recognition they deserve! We could create a page from scratch for Jill G. Morawski, Lois Barclay Murphy, or Florence Kaslow (just naming a few) or we could work from an existing page for one. Maybe we could even find a female psychologist that studied forensic psychology! Take a look at this list of Women in psychology: Year of Science/Women in psychology

I did look at the Forensic psychology wiki page, and compared to other pages, this one looks pretty developed already! However, I do agree that some areas are pretty thin on this page, but I'm not sure how much more information we would actually be able to add. Isley Pie6 (talk) 21:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for emailing Dr. Council I appreciate that! I definitely agree we should cover a woman because they are not as well covered in psychology. I think we could do Florence Kaslow. It would be good to create a page since there is not one on her. We would be making a difference by creating a new page! Definitely we can look more into it if we would rather do someone else from scratch. sefran2 (talk) 03:57, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Yeah I'm fine with that! We should do some research on her first to make sure that we have enough information on her in order to create a well developed page!
 * We also need to have a another choice, (according to assignment 3 just in case someone also wants to do Florence Kaslow), so maybe our other choice could be Lois Barclay Murphy! What do you think? Isley Pie6 (talk) 23:18, 4 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I definitely agree that we need to do some research on Florence Kaslow and also our second choice can definitely be Barclay Murphy! We can do research on them both tomorrow in class to see which one we would be more interested in. sefran2 (talk) 04:58, 5 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a plan! We'll do some research and go from there! Isley Pie6 (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Recapping from class yesterday: we did some research on Florence Kaslow, and while she is an amazing psychologist, we weren't able to find enough information on her in order to create a well-developed page. We looked into Lois Barclay Murphy and it looks like she already has a page on Wikipedia. We chose not to go with either Florence Kaslow or Lois Barclay Murphy and talked about how we wanted to create a whole new page and develop it for a female psychologist. In order to make sure we have enough information on our person, we decided that not only should we do a Google search on them, but also a Google Scholar search on them as well. We want to make sure we have credible sources to go off of. Today we will be communicating with each other on our top three choices and go from there! Isley Pie6 (talk) 20:12, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

I've been looking at the Women in Psychology Wikipedia page and I came across some good finds! My top three choices are: Beverly Greene, Michelle Fine, and Patricia Arredondo! Check them out and let me know what you think! I was able to find multiple, credible sources on all of them and they all need a Wikipedia page! Other people I found were Natasha Cabrera, Silvia Sara Canetto, and Ruth Fassinger. While all interesting, I wasn't able to find as many sources like I did for the other three! Isley Pie6 (talk) 03:34, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I was looking as well and there are three that caught my eye. Constance t. Fischer, Marci Lobel,  and Elizabeth Lira. The first two I mentioned had more information for sure,  and I really liked Marci Lobel because she studies stress and coping and the effects it has on physical health  which really intrigued me . I think your choices were also really good:) it is honestly which one we can find more on that can help us truly build a really good page. 2600:387:B:9:0:0:0:C4 (talk) 04:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Awesome! Yes I agree, we should go with whoever we can find the most credible sources on! We can look into that down the road, but for now at least we know that our top two choices (in no particular order) can be Beverly Greene and Marci Lobel! :D Isley Pie6 (talk) 04:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

From searching just her name (Beverly Greene) in Google, I was able to find six good, credible websites, three videos (of interviews/talks), six pictures of her that we can choose from, and eleven of her books. From searching her name on Google Scholar, I was able to find a lot of her articles/journals/publications/books. The only thing I'm having an issue with is finding an exact birth date and family life and such. From one of the sources I found, I know she was born in 1950… but I'm not sure when. That's all I came up with so far! Let me know what you find on Marci Lobel! Isley Pie6 (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * After looking over Marci Lobel, I see she has a page on the Story Brook University web page which is where she is a professor in Social and Health Psychology. I also found that she has written some research papers with another author. We could look into those, but I feel more confident using Beverly Greene instead of Marci because we could find another way to get her birth date especially with all of the sources that are available. Is that okay with you if we do Beverly Greene sefran2 (talk) 04:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Yeah I'm okay with that if you're okay with that! Beverly Greene it is. I'll send Dr. Council an email letting him know! Isley Pie6 (talk) 06:44, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I like Beverly Greene as a topic. Go for it! J.R. Council (talk) 22:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Assignment 4
For the Wikipedia assignment 4 Cydney is going to come up with two sources for our topic of Beverly Greene and Savannah will be asking the two questions.

Our Issue

 * The Wikipedia page for Beverly Greene does not exist. Not having a page for Beverly Greene is our biggest issue.

Questions

 * Our first question would be how many sources should we have on the Wikipedia page that we are going to create?
 * Our second question is what advice would you have in creating a new page?

Thank you for your time. sefran2 (talk) 03:56, 16 February 2018 (UTC) Isley Pie6 (talk) 22:08, 20 February 2018 (UTC) Isley Pie6 (talk) 10:47, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Your topic choices
Beverly Greene - not acceptable. Current Wikipedia page say she was an architect, not a psychologist. However, looking at your comments above, I guess there's another Beverly Greene.
 * Oops, I see there's another one who is a psychologist. I'd go with her as a choice. She is a notable African American psychologist. Would be starting a new Wikipedia article, but that's easy.

Marci Lobel - She is psychologist. I don't know anything about her but my search on Google indicates she is well recognized. J.R. Council (talk) 18:03, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are two Beverly Greene's. One is a psychologist, which is the one we plan to do our Wikipedia project on, and the other is an architect. Yes, we also knew after doing research on her that we would have to create our own Wikipedia page for her. We talked about it and decided that we wanted to choose someone who didn't have a Wikipedia page already. We wanted to start from scratch.
 * As we discussed, Beverly Greene is our first option and Marci Lobel is our second option. Isley Pie6 (talk) 20:55, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Feedback On Lead Sections
Hey Savannah! Your lead section looked good! Some things that I noticed were: Overall good job! :) Isley Pie6 (talk) 12:59, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * That Beverly Greene's name isn't bolded. We are supposed to bold the topic of our page.
 * Before getting into her background in the first few sentences, maybe briefly talk about who and what she does first then go into the background. You did a great job of this at the end of your first paragraph, so I would maybe switch that last sentence to the first!
 * You did a great job getting to the point of who Greene is and some of the things that she has done while also including some background information on her!

Feedback On Lead Sections
Hi! Thank you so much for my feedback. Sorry for the late response I just got off work. As I was reading through yours i felt it was very well organized and written. I also think that it had a lot of information that was needed to explain what Beverly Greene has accomplished and what she does. I have no corrections for you in all honestly. sefran2 (talk) 03:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC)