User talk:Alicia Pileggi

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Stuartyeates (talk) 21:37, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Stop Porn Culture

Hi,

I noticed your recent edits at Stop Porn Culture. I'm glad you've chosen that for a class project -- it's an article that could use a bit of improvement. I just wanted to leave a little unsolicited advice.

I only came across the article/organization when someone nominated it for deletion last month (if you're curious see this page). Its inclusion was overwhelmingly supported. It seemed to me a few people who don't agree with various perspectives/statements/arguments put forth by the group transferred those objections to the encyclopedia article (see this talk page thread for an example). Then today the article was nominated for deletion again. I don't think there's anything at all to worry about -- pages aren't supposed to be nominated again so quickly without bringing up new concerns -- but it's worth mentioning a few Wikipedia policies that, while frequently unenforced on some pages, may cause problems in areas where there is controversy.

The Activism section you added relies mostly on WP:PRIMARY sources (meaning anything written by anyone with a connection to Stop Porn Culture). While primary sources can be important to verify facts about an organization or person like what year it was founded, where a person was born, where it's located, etc. their use should be quite minimal outside of that. Wikipedia defers decisions of what is important to what third parties have said about a subject in reliable secondary sources independent of the subject. It's this way that we don't have articles about organizations that promote themselves by just citing their own website. If other people haven't talked about it, it's rarely fit to include on Wikipedia. You have a Guardian source for the third paragraph, but the other two rely on primary sources. Seeing that triggers concerns of promotionalism in many people, especially those who have a problem with the organization to begin with -- so I have a feeling that might have triggered the new deletion nomination.

TL;DR - Don't worry about the deletion because it's almost certainly not going to happen, but do try your best to find secondary sources to cite for anything you put in, making sure the text doesn't appear too promotional.

If you have any questions you can ask here or at my talk page. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:33, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Editing Peer Review

Hi Alicia! I was assigned your edits to review for this week. In your edit, I think you should expand on what Pornland is even though you have a click-through link. Doing so would make the section more coherent and wouldn't require the reader to click-through to know what it was. Also, I wasn't sure if you were referring to the Pornlandmentioned before when talking about the documentary or if it was something else under the same name. Those two sentences just did not seem very clear to me. Other than that, your edit sounds great! I'm sure others will contribute now that you started and got the ball rolling. Great job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yahrlinm (talk • contribs) 00:49, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Editing Peer Review

After I struggled through the first editing assignment, I was surprised and incredibly impressed by how much you added! Your formatting and grammar corrections were good additions to the article. When looking at the article before your edits, I noticed too many of those mistakes would be easy for others to pick up on and could discredit the information as unreliable. The article is flagged for neutrality issues, as explained by the user above, but can be improved with a few new sources. For example, citing the organization or movement's own website isn't the best place for unbiased information. With subjects like these somewhat separated from the mainstream, even looking around the internet it's still difficult to find any "scholarly" or reliable sources discussing Stop Porn Culture. I did find an article on The Examiner website that explains some activism work they did at a conference in the U.S. When I tried to post it here, Wikipedia prompted that the Examiner website is blacklisted. However, I found this article from Wheelock college explaining the event. Maybe this could be added to the section you already added to. Great job, overall. Reed0310 (talk) 01:34, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review

"Stop Porn Culture works to create." Just need to add the word "to" in that sentence. Revise the third sentence in the second paragraph. It is a bit disjointed. I think it's good you added something to a little known subject on Wikipedia. You did a good job on your links and referencing. Just some basic revision is needed. Maybe expanding on Gail Dines would help with understanding her focus on this project and would shed some light on her activism. Caitlinoeser (talk) 03:02, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Caitlinoeser

Sisterhood is powerful

Please review how Wiki editors add reference citations. Your work on this article is confusing and will now need some cleanup. Pjefts (talk) 20:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Short chat about your work?

Hi, I'm Eryk from the Wiki Education Foundation. I happened to notice the really great work you did on the Feminist Digital Humanities article for Prof. Koh's course! I wondered if you'd be interested in sharing some of your experiences working on Wikipedia for our blog? We could use your real name or your Wikipedia username (if they're different). We find students like to participate since it gives them a pretty positive search result related to the field they're studying in! If you have a minute, you can drop me an e-mail at eryk@wikiedu.org, mention your username and what course you were in, and answer any of the following questions, and I'd be excited to get some attention directed toward your good work.

1. Did you have any experience with Wikipedia before the class started? What did you think of Wikipedia before you started work on this assignment?
2. How did you find the process of writing a Wikipedia article, compared to if you had written a traditional paper on the topic?
3. What kind of work did you have to do, or do differently, that you may not have needed to do otherwise?
4. Do you think you'll come back to Wikipedia now that the course is finished?
5. What are your goals (career or academics wise?)
6. What got you interested in writing this particular article on Feminist Digital Humanities? And do you think Wikipedia has a role to play in that area?

Thanks so much for your time!

Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:15, 7 January 2015 (UTC)