User talk:Socimajor

Thanks Adam and MPS1992. I appreciate your suggestions. I will check out the links and make revisions.

Welcome!
Hello, Socimajor, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Ideas for your sandbox
Hello Socimajor, I saw your message on Adam's talkpage. Adam or Ian will probably be along shortly, but I thought I would add a few ideas of my own in the meantime.

One thing that User:Socimajor/sandbox would benefit from is WP:WIKILINKs. So you could put and  marks around Harvard and this will make it look like this: Harvard (a clickable link). There are probably plenty more.

Personally I would remove this sentence: "His work history includes some of the most prestigious universities and institutions." It sounds a little promotional. Instead, say a little about where he has worked -- people who care about such things will know how prestigious the institutions are, so don't need to be told.

Ideally, you should include some citations to reliable sources -- see WP:Referencing for beginners. This is different from a listing of his works, which you have already. Often it is difficult to find independent sources about an academic, but if you can't find any then citing a web page at his current institution is a good idea anyway.

Have a look at WP:CHEATSHEET, or at the "source" of other Wikipedia articles, for ideas on how to better format the list of publications, how to have separate sections, and so on. MPS1992 (talk) 18:03, 15 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Socimajor. I agree with what MPS1992 had to say. Make sure that every statement in the article is directly supported by a reference. I would recommend taking a look at the Biographies handout, which I have linked here. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:10, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Check out pages 7-9 in the Editing Wikipedia brochure. You should have received a hard copy from your instructor, but just in case, I have linked to it above. That should give you a better sense of what the article should look like. There's a checklist on page 15 that should be helpful as well. You also need to change your references from bare URLs to properly-formatted inline citations. If you aren’t sure how to do this, please see this page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:34, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi. I noticed that you have continued to develop this article without following my recommendations. Please create properly-formatted sections. Please don't add long lists of publications - Wikipedia articles might list a few major publications, but long lists like you added don't belong in articles. Please use paragraphs to describe his career, instead of a CV-like list. And please fix the reference formatting. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:50, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Max H. Bazerman entry
Hi! You asked me to take a look at your edits for the Max H. Bazerman entry. I think you have done a great job adding new content. What you really need to do is add sources for the information you already added. Look for DOI numbers on journal articles, URLs for websites, and ISBN numbers for books. Let me know if you need any help with adding the citations and keep up the good work! --LibraryGurl (talk) 00:42, 4 November 2016 (UTC)