Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/CUNY, York College/Psychology Independent Study: Wikipedia (Spring 2015)/Course description

We will be learning how to edit Wikipedia so that we can work to improve existing Psychology articles and create new Psychology articles. We will be working with the Psychology WikiProject Initiative and our IS goals are similar to some of the project's goals:


 * 1) To remove vandalism, original research and spam.
 * 2) To ensure that articles are based on independent reliable secondary sources.
 * 3) To represent scientific controversies and scientific consensus fairly, writing articles in a neutral style.
 * 4) To improve and review articles to Good Article and Featured Article quality.

Remember, this is an independent study. You need to work independently and complete the work regularly. In fact, you don't need me. Wikipedia is set up to allow you to learn it yourself. So you could just do it. However, I've planned an introduction to Wikipedia that we will work through.

After that, I'd like you to edit 10 existing articles and create one new article and submit it for review for Wikipedia's Good articles status.

Actually, here's the real independent assignment. As soon as you have an article you created awarded good article status -- 1. you are done with the independent study and 2. your grade is an A+!

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