User talk:Litclass/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Welcome!

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Workpage

Hi Professor, I created a workpage for you here: User:Litclass/workpage. This page is part of your "Userspace", not part of the encyclopedia proper, so you can use it for a work in progress. Just start writing a new article there, save it, and continue working when convenient (or let your class do so). Once the article has improved to the point where it can avoid AFD, then you can copy-and-paste it into the Mainspace. If you have any questions, just drop a note on my talkpage (click on "Message in a bottle"). Good luck, and thanks for taking an interest in Wikipedia. --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 03:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

- Thank you Doc Tropics --- I appreciate your help! Litclass 21:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

My pleasure; I hope that your learning experience wasn't too traumatic. As an FYI, it's generally considered poor form to blank a page, even your own talkpage. What is considered acceptable is to create an archive like this User talk:Litclass/Archive 1. Just click on the redlink and then copy-and-paste obsolete messages into the archive and delete them from your talkpage afterwards. I was going to do that for you, but you might find it a useful excercise to do it yourself; just let me know if you have any questions. --Doc Tropics ^{Message in a bottle} 21:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Litclass/Archive 1: July 2006

Archiving of page

Hi I noticed you've made a couple of mistakes in archiving your page, which I'm in the process of fixing up for you, but so you know for the future.

You archived to Talk:Litclass/Archive 1, this is the main article space for an article Litclass rather than user space, so it should have been User talk:Litclass/Archive 1
You've copied the text from normal browsing of the page rather than by selecting edit and then selecting the text from the edit box, this means you lose things like headings being displayed properly and when you have things like {{helpme}}, rather than being the code <nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki> it actually expands the template out.

Thanks --pgk^(talk) 15:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

APA

APA CITATIONS - DO NOT CHANGE THESE APA CITATIONS. they are in APA because that is how educaitonal material is cited. Reverting makes the citations go away.

- - Did you mean: makes the citations go awry? Dpbsmith (talk) 17:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

What on earth are APA citations? In what way has this edit made the citations go away? I see no change except the removal of blank lines. Cite me other Wikipedia articles with "APA citations" with double spacing.

- The spacing isn't the issue -- the issue is with the changing of the capitilization in the titles of Dr. L-B's works. APA is the American Psychological Association - and it is the benchmark for citations. Only the first word of the title and first word after the colon in a title are to be capitalized. That is how her work should be cited given that it is the standard for educaitonal research, which is what she does.

The article would also be greatly improved if it was not just a list of the woman's works but contained a few references to enable us to judge what the rest of the academic community thinks about her. -- RHaworth 13:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

- The article was two sentences before I worked on it. Gloria Ladson-Billings is a quite prominent researcher and author, with considerable respect in many academic circles. Also, being President of AERA - The American Educational Research Association sets her apart from every other academic in Education save the other 60 or so who came before her. Her work speaks for itself, and referincing Dr. Ladson-Billings by syaing "the womans work" is not a particularly nice way of talking about someone who holds a title, such as Dr. that many do not hold. Anyone in the academic community would know and recognize that. Litclass 20:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

OK: The spacing isn't the issue -- the issue is with the changing of the capitilization. So please explain very slowly and clearly, because I am perhaps a little stupid: how did this edit change the capitalisation? And if spacing is not an issue, why did you do this edit? -- RHaworth 02:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Spacing and Gloria Ladson-Billings

Hey there. Why do you keep re-adding the spacing in this article? As a standard here, we usually don't put spaces like that in link/reference areas. Let me know. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Elephant, are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks. -TheMile 18:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Litclass (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

none stated

Decline reason:

justified block for blatant vandalism of semiprotected article

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-— Note, your block is for 31 hours. xaosflux ^Talk 04:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Stop Removing Warnings

Please do not remove warnings from your talk page or replace them with offensive content. Removing or maliciously altering warnings from your talk page will not remove them from the page history. If you continue to remove or vandalize warnings from your talk page, you will lose your privilege of editing your talk page. Thanks. alphaChimp ^laudare 22:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

APA