User talk:Ktwest

To develop your article for this assignment, please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Student username/Article title continue by clicking on that link. You can then transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding User:Student username/Article title to the main userpage somewhere. (This is a neater way to organize your User page.) You can script your new content in draft form on your User page and then, after you're done working on the sections here, you can either copy-and-paste or merge them with the exisiting entry on Zoonosis. This can be less frustrating than attempting to edit the main entry before you've had practice in creating Wikipedia content. Hoopes (talk) 21:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Zoonosis

You'd have to go farther to persuade me that "Pleistocene disease" is an appropriate entry, given that what you refer to appears to be what happened during the early Holocene. Instead, you might concentrate on improving the Zoonosis entry, especially with reference to archaeological data and theories. Hoopes (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

One possibility would be to create a section of the entry that would be titled "Archaeological evidence for zoonotic diseases" or something like that. For the purposes of this course, it would be good to deal with some aspect of a controversy in which it's important to present more than one side. (The intention is to have you apply some critical thinking to produce a neutral but informative entry.) Let me know if you need help. Hoopes (talk) 21:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)