User talk:Thetammyjo

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Help me!
I have the textbook from my women's studies classes in front of me that has the definitions of the schools of feminism. The book was created by the professor using primary sources from the movement itself.

You can't just go around redefining the movements various phases. Radical Feminism developed in the 1960s as conscious raising groups emphasized self-education and recognition of traditional gender roles as social constructs. People calling themselves "radical feminist" today are NOT Radical Feminists and this websource should not encourage that misinformation.

While I could spend hours listing various historical sources, your site should require historical sources and not merely people's sefl-definitions or anti-feminist sources to help define terms.

Thetammyjo (talk) 17:17, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Please don't use help mes to berate other users. Praxidicae (talk) 17:37, 11 January 2020 (UTC)


 * This message evidently concerns recent edits at Andrea Dworkin. You should link articles or provide diffs when you open a discussion; some users are active on dozens or hundreds of articles, and may have no idea what you are talking about, if you just launch into a subject without any context.
 * While User:Praxidicae is correct that you should not use a Help me as a way to address users, as a new user unaware of the best way to address other users, you get a free pass on that for this time, and also the “Welcome” message highlights that for other uses, so don’t worry about it for now. Going forward, you should use pings or other methods of notification; see WP:NOTIF.
 * I would like to respond to the substance of your message, but here at your user talk page is the wrong venue. Discussions about how to improve an article belong on the article talk page.  If you could please copy or restate your comment there, I will be happy to respond there to your concerns.  Other users may see your comments there as well (whereas they won’t find them here) and may agree with you and weigh in with their own thoughts about it.
 * Before opening a discussion there, I recommend that you spend a little time reading about Wikipedia’s core policies on WP:Verifiability and Neutral point of view, including especially WP:DUEWEIGHT.
 * If you are relying primarily on your professor’s textbook, there might also be a WP:COI issue, but this is relatively minor and is of less concern, and might not be an issue at all in this case. But WP:V is definitely worth a look.
 * Thanks, and once again, welcome to Wikipedia! Mathglot (talk) 18:09, 11 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Then how is one supposed to criticize edits on this site? I looked around for a while to try and find a way to directly address the problems I find repeatedly on Wikipedia, but this was the only way I could find to contact anyone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thetammyjo (talk • contribs) 19:48, 13 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Don't worry, as a new editor, there are a lot of challenges to getting on board, here. For a first time user, it's fine to raise the issue wherever you figured out how to do it. But the right venue, as I mentioned above, is at the article's talk page. If you like, I will raise the issue on your behalf, or you can do it; just let me know which you prefer.
 * As a secondary issue, you left your message above for me (I presume it was for me) a week ago, but I never saw it until now, more or less by accident. If you address another editor specifically, or you just want another editor to be aware of your comment, you need to notify them. There are various ways to do this, but the easiest for you for now, is probably just to use the repy template.  To reply to me, you can add   in any Talk page message your write, and I will be notified about your message and be able to respond. Same thing for any other editor; just put their name in there. (You can also put more than one user in the reply-list; see Template:Reply documentation for details.)  There are other ways to do this, see WP:NOTIF for more details.  If you don't notify an editor, they will probably never read what you wrote, or even be aware that you wrote anything at all, unless by chance (or if you are on their watchlist).
 * Additionally, please sign all your Talk page comments with four tildes, by adding  at the end of your comment.  Also, please use indentation for proper discussion threading, so readers can easily see who wrote what. On talk pages, we use leading colons to indent, one tab for each colon.  See WP:THREAD. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:59, 17 January 2020 (UTC)