Language Acquisition Page for Professor McKee's Class[edit]
Hey, we are working on our presentation for the Wikipedia article you have been helping my Linguistics 341 class with, and I was wondering if you wanted to help present in the beginning about what Wikipedia is and the five pillars and all of that. We thought that, as a Wikipedia Ambassador, you might be able to explain everything better. Let me know if you want to ASAP so that I can let everyone who is presenting know what is going on. Ependell (talk) 00:37, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You are more than welcome to do whatever. We have a couple of basic PowerPoint slides made up about Wikipedia itself but you are more than welcome to add to them or change them if you want. Right now, for the slides just about Wikipedia, all we have is a slide for pictures that says "What is Wikipedia?" a slide that has just a list of the five pillars, a slide with a link to starting the Sandbox, and a slide with a link to article quality. I don't know if you have access to our D2L page for the class, but it is in there as well. If you do make/change any slides, let me know because I have one of the master presentations and then I can put them in. Thanks for helping! Ependell (talk) 14:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You shouldn't feel like it, you should love it! Contributing to the sum of all human knowledge is very fun and after a while, you would be addicted to doing so! Enjoy your stay in Wikipedia and contribute more!
I would be willing to "adopt" you if you are interested. I would do my best to be helpful. I invite you to visit my user page to learn more about me, and let me know what you think on my talk page. Cullen328Let's discuss it 22:26, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Further discussion on my talk page. Where do we go from here? Cullen328Let's discuss it 05:01, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think that articles about the books she has written would be a good idea, assuming that the books meet WP:NBOOKS, our notability guideline for books. I recommend starting with the book that has been most extensively reviewed. I suggest writing the article in a sandbox and move it to main space after it has three or four good solid sources. I will be happy to review your work as you go along. Which book do you recommend for someone new to her work? I will read it and we can discuss it. Cullen328Let's discuss it 05:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Cullen328! Thanks for sending me the books guidelines. I'm a little concerned that none of the books in her series have actually received any outside coverage, at least in notable sources. I think I'll hold off on doing these for awhile. Semccraw (talk) 20:54, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have some special techniques I use to search for book reviews in reliable sources. I will try in the next day or two. Author and publisher websites often link to or quote from reviews. Have you checked those sources? Don't give up! Cullen328Let's discuss it 04:00, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, there is a big difference between a "notable" source and a "reliable" source. As an example, Der Sturmer and Weekly World News are notable, but are most certainly not reliable. A journal of a well-established local historical society may be reliable, but not notable. Cullen328Let's discuss it 04:07, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Most special collection libraries are parts of larger libraries. In general I would proceed by first making a building up a section on them in the article on the main library, and then seeing if there was sufficient to split. My own view, is that for only a very few of the most famous would it be suitable. When the collection is not part of a general library, but closely connected with the primary activity of an institution of which it is a part, I'd give similar advice. But of course when it's an independent library or archive., or the institution exists mainly to sponsor the library, then the article should be about the specific library. Not just libraries; I'd give similar advice about almost all topics where the article is about part of a larger organization. You can then make a cross reference redirect from the specific name. (and also a link from the article about whomever the unit is named after).
Remember that a stand-alone article needs references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. It's good to make certain you have the sources before writing the article. An article in the institution;'s own publication about its history is a good source for uncontroversial content, but isn't considered here as enough to prove notability for a separate article. The idea is to get something written and referenced, without having to worry about possible objections to notability. If you'll tell me what library or libraries you have in mind, I could give more specific advice--just ask on my talk p. or by email, not here, to make certain I see it.
But I gather from your user page, that it may be University of Arizona special collections. My advice above is what I would say in this specific case: The fist step would be to expand the existing section in the university article, [1] into a separate article on University of Arizona Libraries. I have a feeling the existing prose in the main article is copied from a university or library handbook of some sort. If so, it needs to be rewritten--and rewritten from scratch, avoiding WP:Close paraphrase. Such an article is a good opportunity for photographs: the easiest way to deal with copyright is to take them yourselves, and say so, not use any already published. DGG ( talk ) 01:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It would be wonderful if you could expand coverage of this archive on your campus. I am an Ansel Adams fan, and CCP is closely associated with Adams. I wrote biographies of his close associates Cedric Wright and Fred R. Archer. Are you familiar with the so-called "lost negatives" controversy that CCP got tangled up with? Cullen328Let's discuss it 06:20, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds like a great idea! I have been there multiple times and really like the CCP. I hadn't heard of the "lost negatives" but that sounds really interesting. I'll start researching it. Thanks! Semccraw (talk) 15:52, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This controversy has been covered in many major newspapers, but perhaps in greatest depth in a blog by well-known photography critic A. D. Coleman, which is called Photocritic International, and it has to do with the disputed provenance of some photographic negatives that were attributed (falsely in my opinion) to Ansel Adams in 2010. It is a very interesting though somewhat complicated story, and parts of that story involve the CCP on your campus. Cullen328Let's discuss it 06:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Although we've already talked, I wanted to leave you a copy of the message I left for the students and the other Campus Ambassadors:
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In response to your comments on my references[edit]
Thank you for letting me know!
I had put a tag, so the references would be grouped together, but I didn't make a heading for the references by themselves--let me know if I still don't quite have it.
Thanks again!
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