User talk:ChantelCarr
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Talk Timeline
[edit]Day 1: March 20th, 2012 Our group had organized who would be apart of the Wikipedia assignment on this day. We chose to get in to a group of four people, which were: Jeanelle Donkoh, Deshawn Sarathchandra, Jay Adamu, Hassan Nawaz, Daniel Ngo and Chantel Carreiro (myself). We also swapped numbers with everyone in our group in order to communicate. Here we made a Blackberry Messenger Group where we could all contact one another instantly. This meeting concluded that I, (Chantel) would be the leader of this group and open up the "Talk" and "Sandbox" page.
Day 2: March 21st, 2012
On this day, our group had met altogether and discussed what our group name would be in order to write in our TA's (Hannah Turner) tutorial section Wikipedia page. Everyone was told to make their Wikipedia accounts as soon as possible, in order for us to be able to further work on the assignment. We then planned to meet in the library at University of Toronto Mississauga campus from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. In this meeting, we discussed what article we would be editing and what to make changes to. As a group, we were originally going to choose to edit the clothing line page on "ZARA". However, we ended up choosing a more interesting topic that everyone agreed on, which was the Astrology Sign, Pisces. We wanted to do Pisces and Piscerean attributes such as, compatibility and characteristics. This was an interest because everyone in our group was not familiar with this particular zodiac sign. Therefore, we found that doing Pisces would teach everyone something new and would be fun to research. We then found an article already labelled "Pisces", and we planned to add more information to it and elaborate more on Piscerean people. We all sat around a big table and started planning what changes we would make, which mostly consisted of examining Pisces men and women, their relationship compatibility with other signs, characteristics and lifestyle.
Day 3: March 22nd, 2012
Our group arranged our article in different parts. From this, we discussed what would be researched. On this day, we also made sure everyone was to access their "Sandbox" as well as Hannah Turner's "Talk" page. This was a tutorial day, which we managed to discuss a few issues and questions we had for Hannah. Later this day, we found out we had to add two additional group members (Daniel Ngo and Jeanelle Donkoh). We once again exchanged numbers and e-mail’s, and quickly added the two new members into our Wikipedia Group. All six members were able to communicate and catch up, which made responsibilities a bit of a challenge than expected. This day, we made sure to schedule another group meeting, where everyone was to be present in study room (#13, 3RD FLOOR IN LIBRARY), where we started assigning task's for everyone, equally.
Task's we agreed on:
Chantel:
1. Pisces Creativity
2. Pisces vs. Aquarius
3. Pisces vs. Cancer
Deshawn:
1. Pisces: Health and Wellness
2. Pisces vs. Scorpio
3. Pisces vs. Sagittarius
Hassan:
1. Pisces vs. Virgo
2. Pisces vs. Libra
3. Pisces vs. Capricorn
Jeanelle:
1. Pisces Work Ethic
2. Pisces vs. Aries
3. Pisces vs. Pisces
Jay:
1. Pisces: Social Interaction
2. Pisces vs. Leo
Daniel:
1. Pisces Love Life (Sexual Orientation)
2. Pisces vs. Taurus
3. Pisces vs. Gemini
In these study rooms, everyone attended and participated on Friday, March 23rd where we all came up with different sources and way to research each item under our name. We talked about who will be formatting, structuring, editing and provide help over night. We created a system of constant communication with one another to succeed in doing our part as one. Many of us, had finished researching and writing paragraphs, which made our editing able for posting and revising.
Day 4: March 26th, 2012
Today, we opened up everyone's account and made sure all texts, formats and coding were appropriately used. We also had met up to catch up and touch base on what had been finished, and what still needed work. We then scheduled another study room in the UTM library, (room 13, 3rd floor, 6pm-9pm) and finished what we had to, as well as fix minor problems on our page. Our group had complications meeting with one another before, therefore made this meeting mandatory that everyone show up and discuss any issues they had. Here, we worked together as a group for four hours, answering each others' questions.
March 28th, 2012
FINALIZING DAY
We made a few more adjustments to our paragraphs and assigned lists for everyone to take part of in meeting room "J" in the IB building, second floor.
Lists for Everyone:
1. We all edited everyone’s work together.
2. We formatted our project on Wikipedia and learned to use coding.
3. We then laid out all of our references and cited them according to the Wikipedia Citation Guide.
4. Our group then laid out all the pros and cons in researching and editing our chosen article.
5. Then, reviewed, took screen shots, and put our assignment together to complete.
PROS
1. Everyone worked accordingly with one another and interacted with a positive attitude.
2. Everyone was open to new ideas and ways to improve our project.
3. Everyone completed their assigned task.
4. Everyone put in the effort to stay up late and participate in most group meetings.
5. Communication was no problem in this group.
6. E-mail and Instant Messaging made communication more accessible.
CONS
1. Some group members had to leave group meetings early and arrived late.
2. Two more members had to join our group, which made our task list uneven, therefore we had to rearrange all of our duties.
3. Because we had a group of six, our Wikipedia page was longer than expected.
4. Group members were not all present in the study rooms that were booked to use.
5. Research and peer-reviewed articles were difficult to find on some of our topics.
6. Some paragraphs were too short, and had to be more detailed.
7. Some group members were a bit behind because of other course work that was due the same week, putting our finalizing day on hold.
ChantelCarr (talk) 14:54, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Additions to Pisces (astrology)
[edit]Hello! While your contributions to Wikipedia are welcome, I'm afraid the additions to Pisces (astrology) fall under pseudoscience, for which Wikipedia has a policy about. The content you provided was non-scientific information presented as though it was factual. Despite the fact that books on astrology were cited, the information must be presented in a more neutral perspective and not just a summary of the works cited. -- MacAddct1984 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)