User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed)

Primary sources in World Bank and IMF articles

Hi, Ian. Thanks for this edit tagging primary sources at Draft:Iraq and the World Bank. I imagine you've been monitoring Rosguill's topic at WP:ENB#IPE Money and Finance WB 2023. At one point, I wanted to work out the scope of the problem beyond just that one Iraq article, and not limited to Wiki Ed-related edits, so I could comment again at ENB if it seemed like a good idea. So, I started with this advanced search, and picked about a dozen articles of the type, "CountryName and the World Bank", went to the References section, and counted up the number of unique refs with a domain of worldbank.org compared to total unique refs. For example, the first article in that list is Mexico and the World Bank, and it has 11/15, that is, 11 refs not from worldbank.org domain, out of 15 total unique refs shown. That's a really good score, compared to most of the ones I checked. As the conversation quiesced, I didn't see a need to report back, and eventually must have deleted my raw notes, as I can't find them, now. But I came up with around a dozen figures, and some were like, "0/11" (I remember that one!) for Senegal..., very low numbers like 2/14, 4/25, for various others (sorry, no notes!) and quite good numbers for some others; I seem to remember China was quite good, and either India or Brazil or both. So, the results were a mixed bag. I started to do a CountryName and the IMF search as well, but didn't take it further. Most or all of this has nothing to do with WikiEd, but I thought you'd want to know, as a way of situating the current issue at ENB in the context of the larger problem beyond it, which seems to be endemic for very many IMF and WB articles. I'm also a bit worried about the copycat- or WP:OTHERSTUFF-effect, essentially, "Well, I just created a draft just like I saw in "X and the World Bank", so if it was fine there, why not here?" but I don't have a good answer for how to deal with that, other than tag them all, and maybe notify the projects? Mathglot (talk) 00:07, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

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Hi. Did you forget to log in? I've left you a couple of messages at your IP Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:00, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Account Question

Hi Ian,

I am Nby2216 and I am a student editing Wikipedia for a class. A few days ago, when I made an account for my class, I made a mistake and ended up with two accounts. Do you know of a way for me to delete one of them, so I only have the one account.

Thank You! Nby2216 (talk) 19:13, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Don't worry about the second account, Nby2216. Just stick to using this one. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:43, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. Nby2216 (talk) 15:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Introduction

Hi Ian! I'm excited to meet a fellow Wiki Edu user and work to democratize access to reliable, diverse, and accurate information on the internet. Cd631874 (talk) 13:16, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Nice to meet you, Cd631874! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:08, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Using Author's Papers as a Primary Source

Hi Ian. I hope you are doing well. I have an inquiry with regards to using an author's papers as a primary source for their page on Wikipedia. The article I'm looking to add on to is Ruth Doggett Terzaghi's, under scientific contributions, and my University's Library had some papers written by her that I think would be useful for that page. After citing them in the References section of the article, is it possible for me to use them to add on to the article? If so, please feel free to let me know. Thank you for taking the time to read this topic and checking over with me.

Cheers. Dominic.marayag (talk) 23:08, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dominic.marayag. Generally speaking, an author's publications aren't a good source to write about them.

For starters, they aren't useful as biographical sources about a person. Scholarly articles rarely talk about the author, and when they do, they aren't independent sources. Beyond that, while they do tell you something about where they were working and what they were working on, it's hard to determine the importance of their work. If you want some sense of the importance of something they worked on, it's better to look at sources that cite the work.

Finally, unless it's a single-authored paper, it can be difficult to determine their role in the publication. Were they actively involved, or did they co-supervise a grad student's work?

While it can be useful to look at someone's publications, they usually aren't the best sources to use for a biographical article about the person. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:44, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you so much for replying to me and providing me with some insight. With the papers I'm looking at, they're the ones directly involved with the studies they've conducted and writing the papers. Dominic.marayag (talk) 18:58, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Plans to edit the "Food Deserts" parent article and add a new child article

Hi Ian! I'm a student editing Wikiedu for a class, and the article I intend to work on is the "Food Deserts" parent article.

I would like to revise the parent article to include more global theories and definitions of food deserts that address food deserts as a global issue without implying it is a problem in every country. Because the current parent article is mainly focused on food deserts in the US, I’d like to create a new child article on food deserts in the US, and move a majority of the content in the current version of the parent article over into the new article. What are your thoughts on this proposal, and do you have any tips on reworking a parent article and creating a related child article that would be helpful as I edit these two articles? Thank you! Cd631874 (talk) 19:14, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

@Cd631874 that sounds reasonable to me, but I think you should post about it on the article's talk page to make sure other people are aware of what you're planning to do. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:24, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

I see you've done that already! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:26, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your response! I appreciate your help. Cd631874 (talk) 02:49, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Changing name for Human Trafficking in North Korea article

Hi Ian! I am a student trying to edit the Human Trafficking in North Korea article for a class assignment. I am contacting you because I would like to change its name to "Human Trafficking of North Koreans" since most of the trafficking happens in China. I also wanted to do this because Wikipedians on the talk page seem to be bothered by this incorrect title as well (I don't want them to delete my content). My professor told me I should consult you first prior to making title changes. What do you think? Thank you! (Evelyn4712 (talk) 18:30, 23 September 2023 (UTC))

Hi @Evelyn4712. I would recommend keeping it the same to maintain consistency with all the other "human trafficking in..." articles. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:08, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

ECOWAS and the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Hi Ian!

My name is Emily and I am a student enrolled in African Politics creating a Wikipedia page. I was doing some research on the ECOWAS Wiki page and saw that under the talk page it is classified as a level-5 vital article and is a "Start-class" on the content assessment scale. However, all the suggestions in the talk page are from over ten years ago. I was wondering how often these classifications are updated to see if this would be a possible article to update. Additionally, within the ECOWAS page there is a section for the West African Economic and Monetary Union. I met with my professor and she believes that this subheading could be its own page. I was wondering what the process of converting that section to its own page would be. I also saw that the West African Economic and Monetary Union section has its own page in the French language, but not English. I am a French student as well so I was wondering if I could translate the page to English and add more relevant information. Thank you so much for your help!

Emaran1 (talk) 17:07, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

@Emaran1 The ECOWAS page looks like a good candidate to update. As far as the rating goes, I don't think you should worry about that too much. These things do get a little out of date if no one updates them.

I think the West African Economic and Monetary Union is a good candidate for an article in English. You can translate from fr:Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine but make sure you verify the sources for anything you translate. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:49, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Ian, I wan't to make sure my bibliography is Ok

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