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I'm a student at Clark University currently studying land change modeling with Professor Robert Pontius. A small group of students including me are planning on editing this page to add a section devoted to model evaluation as part of a final project for the class. The section would be focused on pattern validation and especially emphasize 3 map comparisons that generate hits, misses, and false alarms as a metric, and the Figure of Merit as an effective single-summary metric. All three of us are new to editing Wikipedia pages, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm happy to provide more detailed information if necessary.
SamHea16, hi Sam! First off, thank you for contributing! I would just have a couple of suggestions:
1) Make sure what you add is encyclopedic - in other words, that it presents an in-depth *summary* of a topic without going into too much detail. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a textbook. Here's a summary of the project's basic principles -
WP:PILLARS.
2) Make sure that all the information you add is based on reliable sources, and is not original research (
WP:NOR). If a reliable source doesn't say it, don't draw conclusions based on it.
3) It's great you're doing this work for a class. Perhaps you could recommend to your professor that he look into the Wikipedia Education program which formalizes and helps guide students through this process (
WP:WEP).
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I'm a student at Clark University currently studying land change modeling with Professor Robert Pontius. A small group of students including me are planning on editing this page to add a section devoted to model evaluation as part of a final project for the class. The section would be focused on pattern validation and especially emphasize 3 map comparisons that generate hits, misses, and false alarms as a metric, and the Figure of Merit as an effective single-summary metric. All three of us are new to editing Wikipedia pages, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm happy to provide more detailed information if necessary.
SamHea16, hi Sam! First off, thank you for contributing! I would just have a couple of suggestions:
1) Make sure what you add is encyclopedic - in other words, that it presents an in-depth *summary* of a topic without going into too much detail. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a textbook. Here's a summary of the project's basic principles -
WP:PILLARS.
2) Make sure that all the information you add is based on reliable sources, and is not original research (
WP:NOR). If a reliable source doesn't say it, don't draw conclusions based on it.
3) It's great you're doing this work for a class. Perhaps you could recommend to your professor that he look into the Wikipedia Education program which formalizes and helps guide students through this process (
WP:WEP).