Kskim33
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editHello, Kskim33, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Feedback on draft
editHi, Kskim33. I took a look at your draft article and I've got a few comments:
- You might want to add a few more sources to your article to get a more comprehensive look at the topic. This review of Linebaugh and Rediker looks promising for a few reasons: 1. it attempts to frame their look at the subject (or explain how they frame it); 2. it reaches into the sources they use to make their claims and can give some color on that, should you need it; 3. it references other elements of the literature, always useful for a starting point. I don't want to send you back to the drawing board because I think you've got a solid start here, but a few more references help the article get off to a broader, more neutral start.
- Direct quotations require page numbers. This can be a bit onerous with named references (re-use of the same reference multiple times) because each reference points to the book only. You can get around this by adding {{rp}} after your reference with a specific page number so e.g.
{{rp|22}}. Let me know if you need a hand with this.- In the VisualEditor, you can add templates by selecting "Template" and typing in "rp". The next screen should allow you to enter in a page number and that's all you need to do. I've added a fake page number for your first quote so you can see what it looks like.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need a hand with any of the above. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Peer Review
editHey, I really dig that you are tackling this topic. I think if you take head Adams advice you are going to have one of the more interesting additions to wikipedia. Just broaden this a bit, use more sources, incorporate more voices in order to flesh this out as a large topic area and not some one's thesis. Very cool stuff.Cjmallos (talk) 17:31, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Peer Review
editThis is a nice review of such a complicated topic. I think something that could help make it better is perhaps rewording the beginning when you talk about the root of the word. It is a bit confusing. Putting something like "The term stems from (insert the roots here)" might make it easier to read. Alexhuseman (talk) 01:35, 30 April 2016 (UTC)