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Neoimpressionism

Hi Adam. Thanks so much for your comment, it's really helping clear things up. I'm still a bit lost because I am not at all sure what I'm supposed to be doing, I really just need the article to go up for my class, it's a large portion of my grade so this is very stressful. All of the prose my partner and I wrote are cited but I'm not sure about the work that existed on the page before. We tried to incorporate as much as possible but maybe that's the issue (is that the what is breaking references?). Any additional help you could provide would be wonderful! Thank you!!

Help us improve the course page system!

Hi Adam! I'm very interested in your opinion and experiences as an online volunteer of Online communities. We prepared some questions to gain deeper insight in user experience. Please let me know, if you could spare some time and help us improve the design of the Wikipedia course page system in regards of the need of all users (instructors, students and volunteers). This won't take too long (about 30 min live) and you are also very welcome to answer questions by mail if preferred so. Please feel free to forward this to anybody who might be interested. Thanks for your support! I'm glad to answer your questions. Sputniza (talk) 14:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ethics for a Free World (Spring 2015)

Hi Ryan -- I notice that one of the students in Education Program:California State University, Channel Islands/Ethics for a Free World (Spring 2015), for which you're a volunteer, chose free will as an article to improve. That's likely to be trouble, because it's a former FA for which every edit is likely to generate intense discussion. (I'm also leaving a message for Adam.) Best regards, Looie496 (talk) 21:54, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's not so much that the article is a former FA, it's more that this particular topic is full of traps for editors who don't have very broad knowledge of the topic. Note that there are 16 talk page archives. Best regards, Looie496 (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ahh, that's a very good point. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated...Mentor321 (talk) 23:19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Hey Protonk--I just ran into User:Sabushaban442/sandbox, but since the person is a student I suppose it's part of the assignment? Thanks, and thanks for all your volunteer work. Drmies (talk) 18:25, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just checking in

Hope things are going well with this semester's crop of students. Let me know if I can help. - Dank (push to talk) 17:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam:

I'll take you up on your comment regarding citing a list on the Blended Learning page. Thanks for pointing that out. I do think a description of tools should be added to the page so I will look for a more recent source.

Best Adam, CreativeLink (talk) 00:24, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I need help!

I need help, Adam! Just kidding; I'm showing someone how to use a user page. Jami430 (talk) 21:50, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question About Uploading Photos

Hi Adam, I would like some clarification on uploading photos to the creative commons. I was debating uploading a photo of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 into our page but its not in the commons. Its available on several different websites so they clearly uploaded but should i assume they have permission? Also are publications, like maps and other treaties, made by government agencies free to upload or again are we suppose to obtain permission?

Thanks for the help APRenaud (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam, Thank you for the clarification, uploading photos will probably be one of the last steps we do but its good to have further explanation before we go down this road, and figured better to ask now rather then later. Perhaps in a weeks time i can come up with a more comprehensive list and then you could assist me in determining, or explaining how to determine, whether permission is granted or not.

Again thanks for the quick reply APRenaud (talk) 15:47, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

critical race theory

Hi Adam I am a student taking the Course critical race theory Houda.kanoun

Critical Race Theory

Hi Adam !I am a student taking a Critical Race Theory course. HarryBaumeister12 (talk) 17:15, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gutai Group Feedback

Thank you so much for reviewing my additions to Gutai Group. I understand what you are saying completely and I will work hard to fix the issue and site better. I appreciate the feedback!

Gina Messick

Epic Theatre

Hi Adam,

I saw your notes regarding my poster of Mother Courage and that it is in fact not in the public domain. I am unsure as to how to find images in pucblic domain and/or images that have already been vetted and are inthe "Wiki Commons" Can you help me navigate that? Thank you, Marisela

  • Hi Marisela. I'd be happy to. So for this period in history you have some options, but first we want to make sure we aren't misrepresenting the copyright of that work. You can add {{Db-g7}} to the page (just as you see it there) and someone will delete the image. I'm adding a tag right now to indicate that the license isn't public domain (so it will be deleted eventually either way). Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:40, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • The period you are working with is just at the tail end of most copyright expirations dates. Works published before 1923 (so a playbill or poster for a 1910 play) are automatically in the public domain. Works published after 1923 but before 1967 can sometimes be in the public domain if they weren't registered or if their registration lapsed. Navigating this is really difficult. Your best bet is to do one of two things:
    • Talk to a librarian or archivist about this very project! They'll be thrilled to help you find old playbills and determine their copyright status. If you find one that you can verify as in the public domain, you can upload a scan.
    • Take a look at the theater poster category on Wikimedia Commons. All of those are freely licensed (either public domain or in a Creative Commons license compatible with Wikipedia) and some may be useful to you.
  • If you want help researching specific images or help determining what information we need before being confident a file is in the public domain or under a free license, I can do that, but I think you'll find talking to a librarian or archivist at your school more helpful. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Feedback

Hi Adam Thank you for your continued help and guidance throughout my first Wikipedia experience. I think that it is incredibly important to have people like you! All the best July.love30 (talk) 21:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AnomieBOT "when"

Hi, Adam, I hope you're doing well! I had a question in this Online Communities class where I think I gave the right answer, but since you're listed as our liaison person I wanted to check and see what you thought.

One of our students had an article given some [when?] tags by AnomieBOT. I told her (I seem to remember hearing this somewhere) that if she added the dates she has, even if they are general ("early 1960s"), that should be enough for the bot to not flag the page again. So the student made this change.

However! I can't find documentation backing up my response anywhere. I may have just made it up? Do you have any insight? Thanks! AmandaRR123 (talk) 21:32, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Amanda. First, AnomieBOT is dating the tags placed by another editor (this edit). In that case they seem to be looking for timing for the various claims. You can suggest that they place exact dates where they are known or note larger date ranges for the whole paragraph. I don't think this is something explicitly noted in the manual of style, though I might be wrong, the MOS is large. You can also ask User:JesseRafe if the changes resolve the issues behind the tag if you like. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:57, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I would've liked each of those sentences to have their own timeframe given. As is, it reads like a "and then, and then, and then..." run on sentence. Didn't revert, but don't think the "early 60s" in the opening is enough to categorize a whole paragraph. Yes, it's clear everything happened then, but not in relation to each other. JesseRafe (talk) 16:03, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oh blerg, sorry to you both, I somehow missed User:JesseRafe's original edit. (Although I generally like to believe that Wikipedia bots can entirely think for themselves, easily distinguish between fuzzy dates and weasel words, and even have parties together.) I agree that more specific dates throughout the paragraph would be ideal, so will try to help it move in that direction. AmandaRR123 (talk) 16:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Technical question

Hi Adam,

We having some difficulties understanding what went wrong. We have used the same source information several times but for these two it seems to have issues. We received message on the page that look like this

Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Could you explain this to us? APRenaud (talk) 15:25, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi APRenaud. It looks like you're seeing the interaction of two things. The use of named references (where you specify a reference with <ref name=NewName>Reference stuff...</ref> and invoke it with <ref name=NewName/>) and the visual editor, which can add some autogenerated names to certain references. This edit seems to be when the problems arose. You fixed the copy/pasted reference problems but for some reason what had been reference 2 and reference 1 were lost and replaced with just the names (and not the definitions). I don't know what sandbox they were pulled from, but that's where I would look. Once you find the original references you can replace the parts of the page which say something like <ref name=":2" /> with the original reference. If you find out what the references were supposed to be originally I can swap them in for you, also. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:05, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help!

Adam, please help me with my work! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:28, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Critical Race Theory

Hi Adam I am a student taking the course Critical Race Theory Criticalracetheorist2 --Criticalracetheorist2 (talk) 20:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam i am taking the course Critical race theory.

Jessiealexia (talk) 02:00, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Critical Race Theory

Hi Adam I am a student taking the course Critical Race Theory Criticalracetheorist1 --Criticalracetheorist1 (talk) 14:22, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History of Western Canada

Hey Adam, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the title of our article "Marriage à la façon du pays". Do you think that t would be more accessible if we had the title without the accents as well? Or should we keep it the way it is? We appreaciate any advice you could give. Thanks so much. Sydpphillips (talk) 17:21, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reference Condensing

Hi Adam,

You recently condensed our references on the Thomas Scott page and it looks great! Thanks so much! I have been adding more information, mostly from the same source, in our final section. I would love to know how to condense it all. If you have time to explain to me how to do it that would be great. Thanks!

Jamie Lotton (talk) 02:36, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jamie Lotton. I'd be happy to help. I'd like to point you to a few ways to handle references, and show you how to do each and why you might choose one or the other.
Named references. In many articles (especially biographies and histories) we will refer to a single journal article or book for different claims thoughout the article. Adding <ref>{{cite book|first=Jane|last=Doe|title=Towards a new History of Something|date=2009}}</ref> each time you make a citation is tough, and it means the reference list is full of redundant visual information for the reader. So if we add <ref name=Doe>{{reference stuff goes here}}</ref> we've now given the reference a name and any other time we call it we only need to type <ref name=Doe /> (note that there's just the one tag, and the closing '/' is inside it). You can do this in the visual editor using the dropdown and giving a reference there. Later you can select the name to reuse it.
The one thing named references don't give you is page numbers. If you want to cite specific pages, there are a few ways to do that, but if the work you are citing is fairly short and you aren't quoting someone parenthetically or directly you can usually omit those. When you want to, I like one of two ways. First, cite the whole work with the full template as one reference, not one page (be sure to put the page range for journal articles). Here is a quick look at how that works. Then for specific references you can type <ref>Doe 2009, 27</ref> (any author date style is fine so long as it is consistent). It's easy to type and it looks good. There are templates you can use as well. A bit trickier but with more functionality. If you'd like to know how those work let me know.
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions please let me know. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:22, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You can also mix named references and shortened footnotes (and mix both with individual citations). There's no need to overhaul everything at once. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:37, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SSCI2831

Hey Adam! I am a student in Amanda Robinson Critical Race Theory Class and just saying hello. Duchess lee (talk) 15:17, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]


SSCI2831

Hey Adamn just saying hi! I'm a student from Amanda Robinson's critical race theory class at UOIT. Ashton.Ramsingh (talk) 15:32, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Adamn, i am a student in Amanda Robinson's Critical Race theory class At Uoit. Just wanted to say Hi. Arqam.masood (talk) 16:27, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Arqam.masood and Ashton.Ramsingh: Hi! I'm looking forward to seeing your work! Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Critical Race Theory SSCI2831

Hi Adam! My name is Dominic and I am a student in Amanda Robinson Critical Race Theory Class at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology just saying hello. Dom&Kish (talk) 12:51, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dom&Kish. Welcome to wikipedia! Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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