Wikipedia talk:Wiki Ed/University of Nebraska-Lincoln/English 254 (Spring 2016)

Topic Proposal:

Enchiladas Potosinas

Enchiladas Potosinas are a typical Mexican dish from the state of San Luis Potosi. A wikipedia page has not been created for this dish but it is mentioned on the general Enchilada page under "types". These enchiladas have a significant history because they were invented accidentally by a woman named Cristina Jalomo. A feature that distinguishes this kind of enchilada is that the tortilla is not drenched in any kind of chili sauce but instead are made by a dough that is inherently spicy.

References: http://www.agendasanluis.com/la-historia-y-receta-de-las-enchiladas-potosinas/#.VthgaZwrLIU http://www.hoysanluis.mx/notas/166842/La-historia-de-las-Enchiladas-Potosinas.html

Dmartinez17 (talk) 16:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I think this is really cool. You'll have to find some good sources (of course, I can't read spanish, so I have to trust you). You'll also want to try to model your article on a good/feature article that covers a dish. That can help you see what categories and sections are useful in making an excellent article about food. Daclausen (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Topic Proposal - Claire Shinn
Topic 1: Emily Arnold McCully McCully is a children’s book illustrator whose Wikipedia article has been rated of high importance in both the Children’s literature and Women writers WikiProjects. Despite that, her current Wikipedia article is rates as a stub-class. Her article has very little information, and there aren’t any photos on display. There are a number of sources apart from her own books that offer knowledge on McCully’s life and work. The ones that I have found thus far are both reliable and secondary.

Sources- Emily Arnold McCully By Arthur Levine (This was published in The Horn Book Magazine, a publication that has specialized in covering children’s literature since 1924.)

I think this would be an excellent topic. And it has the added benefit of redressing a wrong/lack in the coverage of Wikipedia. Sources might be the hang up.

Emily Arnold McCully: Rites of Passage By Karen Pasacreta

Topic 2: Missouri River Basin/Valley As a whole, the Missouri River Basin only has a start page on Wikipedia. There’s some information on it, but each heading is more of a broad overview. For my article, I would intend to focus particularly on the history of the basin. There’s a lot more history to be covered on topics like fur trapping, the Dacotahs, and the Lewis and Clark trail. Right now, the Missouri River Valley article is a start-class involved in a number of different WikiProjects. I have found a number of credible sources in the Library on topics surrounding the history of the basin that have yet to be covered on Wikipedia.

Sources- Before Lewis and Clark: documents illustrating the history of the Mississippi By Abraham Phineas Nasatir

Travels on the interior of America in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811 By John Bradley

The fur trade on the upper Mississippi By John E. Sunder

Land of the Dacotahs By Bruce Nelson

Claireshinn (talk) 16:16, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Also an excellent topic, but perhaps a little too broad. You'd want to focus (I think) on the physical geography of the Missouri River basin. If you got into the history (and cultural geography) too much, you'd find yourself on topics that have their own pages already and are probably more or less well covered (Lewis & Clark are darlings of amateur historians, for instance). Of course, when you try to pick any one thing out, you find it hitched to everything else (in the immortal words of John Muir). The Pick-sloan project would be a good example of something particular within this broader topic that would be a good Wikipedia article (and it provides a great example of Wikipedia's presentism--discounting the past as unimportant and being unable to even really know what the world was like before now).