User talk:Simpsontg77

re: mentor
Hi - sorry to be so brief but I'm recovering from the flu. I'll be pleased to be your mentor. I'll leave a longer message on Sunday or Monday. Thanks and welcome! :-)  K rakatoa  K atie   03:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to take over for Katie until she's active again. Please let me know if you need any help, advice or feedback.  Happy editing!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:15, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Sections and subsections
Hi! I made an edit adding some example sections to Air Pollution Control Act. To make a new section, you add two equals signs, then the title of the section, then two more equals signs. You can make subsections by using three equals signs instead of two, like this:

Subsection
And if you use four equals signs, it makes a sub-subsection.

Hope that helps.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 19:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Improving Air Pollution Control Act
Howdy! In reading the article, the main things that I would want to know more about are:
 * What research or conclusions or knowledge about air pollution came out of the act? Were there specific findings that prompted the followup acts that provided more money?
 * Similarly, what (more specifically) was the research in the '30s and '40s that led to the act?

As for general recommendations for improving the article, the main thing to focus on is finding and using high-quality sources. Wikipedia articles shouldn't generally cite blogs, other Wikipedia articles, or other websites that are user-generated content without a reputation for fact-checking or peer review, etc. (such as Citizendium, another Wikipedia-like encyclopedia project).

Basically, the main sources the article should use are peer-reviewed journal articles and academic books. Try browsing through Google Scholar results to find relevant articles; a search for "air pollution control act" 1955 brings up a number of good prospects, such as this, the chapter on air pollution control in the book Public policies for environmental protection by Paul R. Portney and Robert N. Stavins. Your professor may be able to point you to other relevant sources, as can librarians at your library.

For organizing the article, you should shoot for summary style, which means the first few paragraphs should be a broad overview of the topic, and then the following sections go into detail about the specific aspects summed up in the lead. (That's often easier to do at the end, once you've fleshed out all the details and understand enough to put it together into a concise high-level summary.) Right now, the lead is a little too detailed, and the sections aren't detailed enough. It also jumps around some chronologically, which can be a bit confusing for readers.

Good luck! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

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