Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Public Relations Seminar (Marlene Fine)

checking in
Testing Caleylynch4 (talk) 19:21, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I am visiting the talk page as a practice to see if any other students get this message.Dabenson (talk) 18:56, 27 January 2011 (UTC)dabenson

hello everyone :) Sfofana (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Guys, Good Luck! ItsBrittany (talk) 18:45, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Welcome students! Happy editing, and if you ever have any questions, feel free to leave them here, Sadads (talk) 00:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi everyone. I'm checking in to see if I've gotten the hang of leaving messages.  I think I've got it!!  Now we all need to remember to check in on this page.  I'll use it to make announcements for the class.  See you this afternoon! Marlenefine (talk) 14:23, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Course Page linked with my account
The wiki course link does not appear on mt personal page like John said it should. Is there a way I can edit my page in order to add that link? Cdjsuarez (talk) 18:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I figured it out! :-) Cdjsuarez (talk) 19:26, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Claudia. You're several steps ahead of me.  I haven't figured out yet how to put the course link on my personal page.  Can you explain it to me? Marlenefine (talk) 04:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Some tips for this week's assignment
I’d like to add a couple of tips. Part of your assignment is to comment on an article’s talk page. If you are responding to an existing discussion you can just click the “[edit]” link at the top of that section and add your comment on the bottom. If you are not directly commenting on an existing discussion, it is customary to start a new section; the easiest way to do this is to click the “New section” tab at the top of the page. Remember to sign talk page comments with four tildes ( ~ ), but not contributions to articles.

Also, I have some guidelines given to us by the Wikipedia Foundation on selecting your articles, which I’ve included below. As I mentioned in class, one good place to look is the table under the “Assessment” tab in the United States Public Policy WikiProject page, as well as similar assessment tables for other WikiProjects. Happy editing!

Article Selection: What to Do
 * Choose a term that is well established in the discipline, but only weakly represented on Wikipedia. The best choice is a topic where a lot of literature is available, but isn't covered extensively on Wikipedia.
 * Gravitate toward "stub" and "start" class articles. These articles have only 1-2 paragraphs of information and are in need of expansion.
 * Before creating a new article, spend 15-20 minutes searching related topics on Wikipedia to make sure your topic isn't already covered. Often, an article may already exist under another name or be a subsection of a broader article.

Article Selection: What to Avoid
 * Trying to improve articles on very broad topics (e.g. Law) or articles that are already of high quality on Wikipedia
 * Trying to improve articles on topics that are highly controversial, e.g. Global Warming, Abortion, Scientology, etc. (Note: start a sub-article instead)
 * Working on something only sparsely covered by literature
 * Starting articles with titles that imply an essay-like approach, e.g. The Effects That The Recent Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis has had on the US and Global Economics instead of Subprime mortgage crisis

Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 03:53, 10 February 2011 (UTC) (a.k.a. John)

Michelle.K.Rico Article to Edit
Intermediate Care Facilities for Mental Retardation

Wikipedia gender gap
There is further commentary and discussion on the recent New York Times article at the Wikipedia Signpost newsletter: Wikipedia Signpost/2011-02-07/Gender gap. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 05:50, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * There has been further coverage of this issue in subsequent issues, here and here, including a good blog post from Sue Gardner, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 04:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

caleylynch4 Article
Let's Move — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caleylynch4 (talk • contribs) 01:13, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Article Selection--Instructor Comments
Hi everyone. I've been checking everyone's user pages and list of articles. Caley, Michelle, Denise and Julie have listed their articles. I know Emma is trying. Emma and Julie--I've put comments on your user pages. Caley has both listed her article and suggested what needs to be done with it. Take a look at what she's done--she provides a good model to follow. Alex, Iman, Nasro--practice writing by adding some text and links to your user page. Those of you who have put text on your user page but don't have any links, please add some internal and external links so you can practice doing them. And don't forget to post your articles!

See you on Wednesday. Marlenefine (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Seree's Article Choice
Blue Code of Silence — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfofana (talk • contribs) 01:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)