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Feedback - Week 4 Assignments
editHi Alex, Way to get up to speed in terms of developing a list and linking those ideas to your group members' talk pages (don't forget to post to my talk page too). To catch up you may want to play around with editing (and providing edit summaries to page) and in the process improve articles related to the field. In terms of feedback on the potential topics. Gerascophobia seems problematic from the standpoint of a non-existent literature (if I used gerontophobia there were 8 published articles - most quite dated). If you can't access reliable and valid information about the topic your ability to contribute will be limited. Both alogia and pica seem workable. Although there already is a decent structure present for both there also is a substantial literature that you should be able to consult to learn more about both and ultimately write about and share that knowledge in expanding the articles. In general, it will be easier for you to focus on a topic that is stub-quality or weakly developed (or perhaps hasn't even been written about at all). From the handout in this week's recommended readings on choosing an article:
Advice for choosing articles to work on
- 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.
- Scope: Look for topics that are specific and narrow enough to be manageable, but broad enough that sufficient sources exist to write a solid, sizable article.
- 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.
What to avoid for student projects
- 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. (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” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatompki (talk • contribs) 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Let me know how I can help along the way! Tatompki (talk) 20:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)