User talk:Michaelgav09
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:52, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
A kitten for you![edit]
Meow. Welcome aboard.
Dr Aaij (talk) 02:02, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
That edit improves the article--but I can hardly give you full credit for the "Add to an article" assignment, since it's such a minor edit. Adding some reliable sources (surely there are books and newspaper articles) would help if you want credit. And that still leaves the Copyedit and the Critique assignments, which is why right now you have a failing grade. If you want credit for those assignments, even if they are late, it has to be done this week. Dr Aaij (talk) 03:55, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
- The Cracker Barrel critique was also a bit underwhelming, and two weeks (?) late. I'm surprised you didn't know about those court cases. Dr Aaij (talk) 05:00, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Sandbox[edit]
Please put the actual draft of the article you're working on in an appropriately titled sandbox, as we discussed in class. Thanks. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:16, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
February 2017[edit]
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Thank you. Dr Aaij (talk) 03:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
- Michaelgav--in 20 days you have managed to exactly this. You may think that this is the easiest class you ever taken, with the least amount of work, but if you keep going like this you won't pass.Dr Aaij (talk) 02:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
The article Battleview orchards has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Non-notable property
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Moved article[edit]
I've moved the article to your userspace at User:Michaelgav09/Battleview orchards so you can work on improving the article, as it was at risk of deletion.
The article lacks sourcing to show how the farmlands are notable per Wikipedia's guidelines. Be cautious, as farmlands are not automatically notable despite their age. You may want to see if there has been any sort of academic coverage of the farm, as this is one of the easier ways to establish notability since academic sourcing is almost always considered to be a reliable source on Wikipedia. News coverage would be good too, as long as it is in-depth, non-primary, and is not a routine notification of an event (ie, something that just gives the dates and times of something that will occur). Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:02, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Alansohn, if I remember correctly you are the local New Jersey expert. Michaelgav's assignment is to write up an article using published books (besides other material) as references. Now, I think you probably got New Jersey pretty well covered--but do you have any recommendations, any topics/buildings/people/places/churches/etc. that you know are notable and that you know allow for better sourcing than, say, New Jersey Folklore Society? Your help is greatly appreciated--the student is in a bit of a difficult situation and needs to get the show on the road quickly. Michaelgav, as I said before, formatting etc. is not problematic: it can be fixed. We need content, and we need good sources. Thanks, Alansohn, for whatever you can do. Dr Aaij (talk) 21:03, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Inline citations[edit]
Hi Michaelgav09, I've been doing some looking, and I have found a problem common to all of your articles. You have sources, which you cite at the end of the article. That much is good, but you use no footnotes. If you have cited, for instance, 3 works for your article, it is impossible for the reader to tell which facts are supposed to come from which sources. Take a look at MOS:REF and WP:IC, and try to add some inline references to your articles. If you need help, let me know. LadyofShalott 02:11, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Points[edit]
I am going through your contributions as good as I can--but I don't see where you ever proposed a DYK hook (the hook alone would be worth 75 points for the DYK Week exercise) or where you responded to peer review. For New Jersey Folklore Society, for instance, you received abundant advice on the talk page on 11 April, yet you didn't make any meaningful edits to the article since then. For Custer wolf I see a few edits that seem to have been prompted by my comment on the talk page, but these edits are relatively minor and you have not done anything to alleviate the problems signaled by the tags, and those are serious problems. So I can give you a bit of credit for "Response to peer review", but not much since, well, there hasn't been much. Dr Aaij (talk) 14:18, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
I moved on from the New Jersey Folklore Society as per your instructions since you told me when I was in class "there's nothing else you can do with it i'd choose a new topic". and I never returned to the article on the WWII ace since you also told me I didn't have enough reliable sources. At this point, based on our emails, I have done everything that you have instructed me to do. I am now home in New Jersey seeking medical treatment and would appreciate any final advice and guidance on Custer Wolf. I will work on the hook today.
- That is not what I said. Besides, even if you are assigned a different topic, one which meets the guidelines by having books as sources, that doesn't mean you have to drop the fighter ace in mid-air. I am sorry you are not here, and I hope you are getting better, but with the wolf also, this has taken very long, and the semester is over--we could have started on the wolf three or four weeks ago. I'm about to look at the article. Dr Aaij (talk) 21:36, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
DYK for Custer Wolf[edit]
On 25 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Custer Wolf, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Custer Wolf, a North American gray wolf referred to as the "master criminal of the animal world", killed livestock worth almost $300,000 in today's money? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Custer Wolf. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Custer Wolf), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.