Jtodsen

Hello

Nice to see you here (and your class sounds fun)! Sgelbman (talk) 13:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassador for Political Scandals (Fall 2011)

Hello Dr Todsen, I have signed up as a Wikipedia Online Ambassador for your Political Scandals course. My preferred method of direct communication is through email (here), where I can provide you more information about myself and the hours I am available throughout the week (I live in the Eastern Time Zone). I look forward to assisting your students in contributing to Wikipedia and I hope the Wikipedia element of your class will be an enriching experience for all. Thanks. —Yk Yk Yk  talk ~ contrib 16:58, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Hi John, welcome to the Global Education Program! Annie Lin (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 23:02, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Happy to help

My colleague Remember has asked that I offer you some help, since I do some of the FA-quality work on US politics (I've made somewhat of a specialty of Nixon, who was known for political controversies). I'll watchlist this page, or you can always drop a line on my talk page.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:50, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

• I really appreciate it. Do you have a link for our class pages? Jtodsen (talk) 13:47, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Remember was kind enough to give me this link.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:50, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

If you need some ideas for controversies, the Maynooth grant article is one that I've hoped to see improved for quite some time, but haven';t gotten around to doing it myself due to the need to find resources on it, or if you want an ambitious project, while there is an article on Alger Hiss, there is none devoted to the controversy. Additionally, there were some Truman administration scandals which involved secretaries getting fur coats, that is why Nixon referred to Pat wearing a "respectable Republican cloth coat" in the Checkers speech. The speech article doesn't need help, but an article on the Truman administration scandals would be a worthy addition to Wikipedia.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Articles

I do not see that any of them would survive a GA nomination as of right now.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:54, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

I think I agree. I think they've made some good additions, but not to the level I had hoped. Any chance you'd be willing to email me some feedback on them? Jtodsen (talk) 18:02, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Give me a few days so I can look at how they were at start of the semester.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:34, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Any chance you can get this? Jtodsen (talk) 21:54, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm on it. Sorry. I've been distracted by the McKinley administration.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like my dissertation, I understand. It distracted me for a number of years. Jtodsen (talk) 22:04, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Quite so. I'm sending it by email now.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:15, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Feedback

Here is a summary of changes made to the articles, plus my feedback:

Article	Summary of changes	Feedback
Debategate	[diff] Addition of "Importance" section; addition of works cited to the "References" section.	Hasn't grown a whole lot in terms of content. It's also lacking in inline citations.
San Diego pension scandal	[diff] Expansion of lead, "Underfunding," and "Aftermath" sections using a few new sources.	No significant content growth. Inline citations are complete.
Maria Reynolds	[diff] General expansion of each section; addition of one new reference.	Not sure how much more the article can grow anyway. Needs more inline citations. Shouldn't Hamilton-Reynolds Sex Scandal be the appropriate article for the class?
Robert E. Coughlin	[diff] Minor expansion, addition of new references.	Article doesn't have potential to grow very much more. Overall it's a decent article considering the level of notability of the subject

I'll finish this later. —Yk Yk Yk  talk ~ contrib 01:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Article	Summary of changes	Feedback
Ohio Gang	[diff] General expansion of article and addition of references.	Judging from CREEP and White House Plumbers, there's not much potential for the article to become much longer than it is.
Operation Greylord	[diff] General expansion and addition of references.	More work could be done on the details of the investigation, not just the aftermath.
Maynooth Grant	[diff] General expansion from one non-new source; some of the previous sources were removed.	Incomplete WP:LEAD section; needs inline citations.
Burr conspiracy	[diff] Just the one edit made – expansion with the addition of multiple sources	Should not have added the text of an entire letter to the article. Apart from that, minor improvements were made.
Galphin Affair	[diff] Rewrote entire article.	Clear and crisp description of the scandal. Needs inline citations.
Crédit Mobilier of America scandal	[diff] No major expansion.

 —Yk Yk Yk  talk ~ contrib 03:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Feedback

The Hamilton-Reynolds sex scandal article is very good – clear and complete description of the affair. —Yk Yk Yk  talk ~ contrib 04:17, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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