User talk:Alison intheair

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I hope yours is too Alison! Could this be an outlet for G-578 as well? NicEMyer (talk) 16:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Alison!

I had dinner with User:Piotrus and User:Smallbones last night, and that is how I have come to your talk page. I will give you some suggestions on how to proceed, but you need more editing experience before attempting a long and difficult article along the lines that you mention. Best wishes! --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Development social movements in Latin America

Before you attempt to create an article with this subject, have you written this article using a word processing program like MS Word, with the usual academic citations?
Are there any articles on Wikipedia about any particular social movements in any part of the world against development?
I am pleased to see your sandbox article, which shows that you are learning how to create the basic structure of an article. You should create some sandbox articles in your field on some minor topics, and especially you should learn how to have inline citations to books, journals, and on-line articles.
Can you find ways to improve the Landless Workers' Movement article, especially by adding inline citations where needed?
Can you improve the Populism#Latin America section, which is tagged for bias?
User:John Broughton's book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is online right here, but I would suggest that you read it in paper form, and use it as a reference in creating articles or editing existing articles.

Feel free to reply to me right here. I numbered my suggestions for ease in commenting in reply. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:42, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your help, Dthomsen8.

I am currently working on the article in Microsoft word, and have done a presentation on the topic for class. This is an assignment for an class on Economic Development--I am able to simply make major additions to a currently existing article, or write my own.
I am looking into other articles on Wikipedia currently.
I will work on this!
Also, this.
I will take a look at this article--I'm not sure if I have enough background information, but I will look into it.
I will look into this reference material. It seems like it will be very helpful.

I really appreciate your help, and hope to get cracking on this article shortly. I will let you know if I have any immediate questions.

Best, Alison intheair (talk) 04:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More ideas:

Do you know Spanish or Portuguese?
Are you studying economics, or sociology, or international relations?
Is Brazil considered part of Latin America?
Perhaps you could write a short article on some particular social movement in Latin America, before embarking on an article covering several anti-development movements.
Do an actual article in a sandbox. Learn how to create articles in a lower level than just "sandbox" perhaps by looking at my talk page, where maybe I have overdone it, but you can see the general concept.
Think about having images on any article you do. If it is an organization with a web site, you may be able to use their logo without specific permission.

Glad to hear back from you. Piotr is a Sociology student, so look to him for expertise in your field. --DThomsen8 (talk) 15:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know Spanish, not Portuguese. I've been working on the MST page, which is a huge mess! Just examining that page makes me want to do a smaller piece. I have taken Economics and I'm in an Economic Development class currently. I am a Public Affairs and Latin American Studies grad student.

On the MST page, a lot of information could use citation. Is it OK to use a MST-friendly website? Or should the information be completely objective throughout?

Thanks!Alison intheair (talk) 05:44, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the Landless Workers' Movement ("MST") article is a big mess, but you have at least improved the grammar and readability of the article.

Take a look at Urban Land Committees and Via Campesina as articles that are shorter and much easier to improve, and better yet, with Spanish sources as well as English sources. Consider WP:RS and WP:NPOV when looking at sources. You can include citations that are friendly to your subject, but it is your obligation to preserve a neutral point of view, and where there are differences of opinion or controversies, you have to do your best to present both sides. Go ahead and add citations to the LWM/MST article if you can, but just look at the other two articles and reply to me without making any changes. Via Campesina looks particularly good to me as a candidate for improvements. I would want to create an infobox with their logo and the address of their headquarters, as one example of what can be done. You may be able to find more sources, especially in Spanish. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:56, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alison, just a reminder that I am still around. If you have any questions, do ask me. You may not be aware, but I am also a grad student in sociology, with some expertise in social movements, so feel free to ask about that subject as well. I'd suggest you try to move your edits from Word to Wikipedia; the more you edit on Wikipedia, the easier it will be. Moving content from Word means you'll have a lot of wikifcation work to do later on. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 00:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your request

Sure, I'd be happy to help you out. Let me know whenever you have any questions! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 06:07, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Logos on Wikipedia

[[File:Publicprivateventures.gif]] Logo with claim that it is in the public domain.

[[File:Philadelphiaherpetologicalsociety.png]] Logo with fair use justification.

The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing Logo, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey.

These files use the template {{logo fur}}, and are uploaded into Wikipedia. Other kinds of images should go on Wikimedia Commons. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]