User talk:Steffersanie

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Offer to send The Impact of Democracy, Globalization, and the Internet on the Global Economy to Draft: space
The Impact of Democracy, Globalization, and the Internet on the Global Economy is not suitable as an article right now. You need to better define what the subject of the article is and cite sources that directly support the statements made in the article. Frankly, it currently reads like a school essay, not an encyclopedia article.

I'm not convinced that it can be improved, but I'm willing to move it to Draft: space rather than nominate it for deletion. Would you prefer the chance to develop it for a few months with less risk of deletion? —C.Fred (talk) 03:15, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * honestly I'm very confused by this whole system and I'm just trying to graduate college, I need to make a wikipedia page on a theme in world history and the professor said to use our essays. I understand that I cannot just post the essay itself, but do you have any idea (besides the Wiki pages) on how to fix this?


 * Honestly, your professor didn't do their homework before giving the assignment. :) They should've gone through some of our training on how to give effective Wikipedia assignments. But that doesn't help you. The problem is that a theme in history is vague and probably not the kind of thing that would have an article. Further, to write an effective essay, you have to do a lot of synthesis, pulling together information from various sources to make your own conclusions, and that is inappropriate for Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not the place to publish original research.


 * Your best approach, within the Wikipedia framework, would be to take the secondary sources you identified in your essay research and use them to improve articles such as Globalization; you'd probably be able to enhance the section on criticisms and commentary. —C.Fred (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Okay, but wouldn't that be plagiarism since I didn't write that article and then to take credit for it would put me in a deeper hole than I am now? She wants us to write a whole new page, but most of the pages are already taken and shifting through all of them to find an obscure unresearched topic not covered would be incredibly difficult. However, I do believe you are right in your analysis of her not understanding how to use wikipedia, (Not arguing with that at all lol). -Steff


 * It would not be a copyright violation because you would take the facts from the articles and recast them into your own words. (You're not stringing together new ideas of whole cloth; you're just reporting what reliable sources have already said.) It would not be plagiarism because you would cite the sources of the information. —C.Fred (talk) 03:48, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Actually could you move it to drafts, the professor says that is okay as long as I made something. She seems to understand that this is not the correct way to make a wiki page, but still wants us to do it this way. Also, on another note you have been very helpful in helping me learn about how to use Wikipedia, thank you and have a great morning, or evening, or afternoon. :) -Steff


 * Done. The page is now titled Draft:The Impact of Democracy, Globalization, and the Internet on the Global Economy. Glad to be able to help out. It can be confusing getting started, but there are a lot of pages for guidance along the way, like WP:Your first article on creating articles. If there's anything I can help you out with along the way, let me know. You have a good morning|evening|afternoon also. (It's actually evening/night for me, and it's the end of the semester; I just turned in grades for my students this morning. :) ). —C.Fred (talk) 04:23, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Impact of Democracy, Globalization, and the Internet on the Global Economy


Hello, Steffersanie. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Impact of Democracy".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. &raquo; Shadowowl  &#124;  talk  11:31, 13 October 2017 (UTC)