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Hi. Just saw your response at [ [1]]. Wow, from your user page, I see you've done an incredible amount of editing of Bible articles. I'll be teaching a course in Hebrew Bible next semester, ~14 students, at a public university. Though I might try to give them Wikipedia assignments. So I'm looking for some suitable opportunities -- where they can start small, engage in Talk with experienced editors, and paraphrase & cite some academic literature. I'm planning to work with the Wikipedia: Wikipedia Education Program. So, might you be interested in helping me think about the course assignments and so on? Take care, ProfGray 20:17, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I'm interested in talking about this - it's something I've thought about off and on for a few years. The obvious place to start would be the Psalms - there is an article on every Psalm, but most are very short. E.g. Psalm 81. So you might ask the students to add in something about genre, structure and theme. The key difference between this and the usual sort of assignment is the lack of student's opinion or evaluation - they would be strictly citing scholarly authorities in a non-neutral way: " Walter Brueggemann regards this as a psalm of lament." But even then, it would take a bit of research to know whether that is Brueggemann's idiosyncratic view or the general consensus among scholars. Anyway, I hope this helps - keep in touch. St Anselm ( talk) 20:27, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. I teach at Miami Univ (Oxford OH) and I'm thinking about adding WP assignments to one of my courses next semester. Have you had experience in helping college teachers in setting up and implement a WP-related course? Would you be open to working with me or perhaps referring me to another volunteer? Thanks! ProfGray 19:21, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
ProfGray (cc User:Adam (Wiki Ed)): The way that {{ course details}} template works is that if it's in user space, it has the big box of instructions at the top. If it's transcluded onto a course page, then it instead inserts that standard header.
The assignments on Joan Strassman's course page that you linked were not created by a wizard or selected from a menu; those were things she added herself.
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We're working on better tools for keeping track of course activity, which I expect to start rolling out during the upcoming term in a basic form.-- Sage (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 16:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Just posted my first draft of the course syllabus and WP assignments plan: Education Program:Miami University/Religions of the Hebrew Bible (Spring 2015).
My request for course instructor rights is located here on WP:ENB. I'd welcome suggestions of Users/editors who might like to support me and the students in the course.
Meanwhile, let me ping @ SuperHamster, StAnselm, and IZAK: thanks! ProfGray ( talk) 05:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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It is I, Ellie Kesselman, here to bother you (just kidding), here to enthusiastically offer you my assistance, as promised in the extra-Wiki world. I perused your talk page, and see that you have received guidance already. It is good guidance, especially regarding tracking student edits, and I can't think of anything further to add at this time. Try to avoid Wizards if possible, as the sitting and spinning problem is one I've had too. Since you are a returnee, I recommend using the regular editor rather than the new Visual Editor, unless you like it, of course. I have a few ideas as far as motivation for your students. Certain bells and whistles are effective for people of all ages, myself included!
Happy 2015 C.E. ;O)
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Hey Professor Gray - just wanted to wish you a very merry New Years Eve as we head into 2015 :) Looking forward to helping out with your course when school starts back up. Cheers! ~ Super Hamster Talk Contribs 01:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello ProfGray. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do, but I'll try to help. If you go to Book of Joshua you'll find a section outlining the Joshua-narrative's story, and the first subsection deals with the early conquest. It's more complete than yours and could copy/paste it to serve as the introduction to your article.
Then where should your article go next? It needs an analysis of the Book of Joshua itself - composition history and theological purpose. JEDP won't help on this - Joshua's from the Deuteronomistic history, so your students need to understand that. So look at Joshua (the conquest narrative) in the framework of the DtrH, its origins and purpose.
Only last go to the archaeology. What's the current archaeological status of the settlement of the Palestinian highlands and the emergence of state-level entities? Go for the most recent stuff, after about 2000.
Finally bring it together - what were the three theories on the emergence of Israel, where do they stand today?
For an overview, an excellent introductory work is *Moore, Megan Bishop; Kelle, Brad E. (2011).
Biblical History and Israel's Past. Eerdmans. {{
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Not sure all that can be covered in a week, but good luck :) PiCo ( talk) 21:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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I made some changes that you might like to look at (at Chronology of the Bible). How are your students going with Wikipedia? PiCo ( talk) 10:12, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Just saw your response at [ [1]]. Wow, from your user page, I see you've done an incredible amount of editing of Bible articles. I'll be teaching a course in Hebrew Bible next semester, ~14 students, at a public university. Though I might try to give them Wikipedia assignments. So I'm looking for some suitable opportunities -- where they can start small, engage in Talk with experienced editors, and paraphrase & cite some academic literature. I'm planning to work with the Wikipedia: Wikipedia Education Program. So, might you be interested in helping me think about the course assignments and so on? Take care, ProfGray 20:17, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I'm interested in talking about this - it's something I've thought about off and on for a few years. The obvious place to start would be the Psalms - there is an article on every Psalm, but most are very short. E.g. Psalm 81. So you might ask the students to add in something about genre, structure and theme. The key difference between this and the usual sort of assignment is the lack of student's opinion or evaluation - they would be strictly citing scholarly authorities in a non-neutral way: " Walter Brueggemann regards this as a psalm of lament." But even then, it would take a bit of research to know whether that is Brueggemann's idiosyncratic view or the general consensus among scholars. Anyway, I hope this helps - keep in touch. St Anselm ( talk) 20:27, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. I teach at Miami Univ (Oxford OH) and I'm thinking about adding WP assignments to one of my courses next semester. Have you had experience in helping college teachers in setting up and implement a WP-related course? Would you be open to working with me or perhaps referring me to another volunteer? Thanks! ProfGray 19:21, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
ProfGray (cc User:Adam (Wiki Ed)): The way that {{ course details}} template works is that if it's in user space, it has the big box of instructions at the top. If it's transcluded onto a course page, then it instead inserts that standard header.
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User:SuperHamster can add himself as online volunteer.-- Sage (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 17:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
We're working on better tools for keeping track of course activity, which I expect to start rolling out during the upcoming term in a basic form.-- Sage (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 16:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Just posted my first draft of the course syllabus and WP assignments plan: Education Program:Miami University/Religions of the Hebrew Bible (Spring 2015).
My request for course instructor rights is located here on WP:ENB. I'd welcome suggestions of Users/editors who might like to support me and the students in the course.
Meanwhile, let me ping @ SuperHamster, StAnselm, and IZAK: thanks! ProfGray ( talk) 05:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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It is I, Ellie Kesselman, here to bother you (just kidding), here to enthusiastically offer you my assistance, as promised in the extra-Wiki world. I perused your talk page, and see that you have received guidance already. It is good guidance, especially regarding tracking student edits, and I can't think of anything further to add at this time. Try to avoid Wizards if possible, as the sitting and spinning problem is one I've had too. Since you are a returnee, I recommend using the regular editor rather than the new Visual Editor, unless you like it, of course. I have a few ideas as far as motivation for your students. Certain bells and whistles are effective for people of all ages, myself included!
Happy 2015 C.E. ;O)
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Hey Professor Gray - just wanted to wish you a very merry New Years Eve as we head into 2015 :) Looking forward to helping out with your course when school starts back up. Cheers! ~ Super Hamster Talk Contribs 01:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello ProfGray. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do, but I'll try to help. If you go to Book of Joshua you'll find a section outlining the Joshua-narrative's story, and the first subsection deals with the early conquest. It's more complete than yours and could copy/paste it to serve as the introduction to your article.
Then where should your article go next? It needs an analysis of the Book of Joshua itself - composition history and theological purpose. JEDP won't help on this - Joshua's from the Deuteronomistic history, so your students need to understand that. So look at Joshua (the conquest narrative) in the framework of the DtrH, its origins and purpose.
Only last go to the archaeology. What's the current archaeological status of the settlement of the Palestinian highlands and the emergence of state-level entities? Go for the most recent stuff, after about 2000.
Finally bring it together - what were the three theories on the emergence of Israel, where do they stand today?
For an overview, an excellent introductory work is *Moore, Megan Bishop; Kelle, Brad E. (2011).
Biblical History and Israel's Past. Eerdmans. {{
cite book}}
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help)
Not sure all that can be covered in a week, but good luck :) PiCo ( talk) 21:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
As an editor who does use my real name, and has spent a considerable time looking at both gender on Wikipedia, and various forms of Internet/Real Life harassment, I would suggest that rather than advise your students to conceal or make public their identities, you invite them to think carefully about what is involved, and reach a thoughtful decision over what should be public, and what private. Note that it is always possible to abandon an account and create a new one.
All the best:
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Regarding this addition to the Impurity after childbirth article, please specify the source you had in mind with "Macht". By the way, the Milgrom source above it has become unavailable. Can it be replaced with another link? Debresser ( talk) 21:55, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
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I made some changes that you might like to look at (at Chronology of the Bible). How are your students going with Wikipedia? PiCo ( talk) 10:12, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, Ro from TikTok (saddest_strong). Thank you for inviting me to help document the Trans community's history! 💜 Rogaricel ( talk) 03:03, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
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the elevated level of systematic discrimination and violence against transgender peopleas "Transgender genocide" or "Trans genocide" generally does not seem to be embraced by the majority of sources that talk about violence against transgender people. I don't anticipate submitting an AfD; WP:DEL-CONTENT is a thing and generally I don't like deleting articles on the basis of their content unless they're totally unsalvageable. But the article needs to be substantially re-written in order to comply with NPOV (and perhaps a title change). I'll explain more in detail on the article talk page. — Ⓜ️hawk10 ( talk) 19:52, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, with respect to the troll vandalizing Transgender genocide, they should be indeffed soon. See this discussion at WP:ANI, if you want to follow along. I have a feeling the discussion will be very short. Thanks for your attention at the article. Cheers, Mathglot ( talk) 02:50, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
... for your article at Transgender asylum seekers! I've cleaned up the article a bit and marked it as reviewed. A few style points: Replace curly quotes with straight quotes, per MOS:CURLY; when you have a single quote next to a double quote, use {{ ' "}}, which will put a thin space between them for readability; make sure that the archive URL is an actual, distinct URL on an archive website, rather than the same website. A few content points: Be careful putting too much weight on individual cases of abuse. Although they may be compelling, unless they are widely covered it may be undue weight and compromise the encyclopedic tone. Also avoid external links to advocacy groups. Instead, incorporate relevant groups into prose and give a link to them in some citation. Finally, I suggest being more focused on transgender-specific issues; a lot of the raised points apply to LGBT folks in general. Thanks again. Ovinus ( talk) 19:48, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello - Long time no see (on my watchlist, at least). I did some copy-editing and expansion of the transgender asylum seekers article and got it nominated at Template:Did you know nominations/Transgender asylum seekers. Fingers crossed it goes better than the last time we nominated something! ThadeusOfNazereth(he/they) Talk to Me! 23:18, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Oh not at all - The only option in the DYKHelper script I use for nominations is a “created by” field, but if you want to edit it to clarify the labor differential that’s totally fine! Whatever makes sure you get the credit you deserve :) ThadeusOfNazereth(he/they) Talk to Me! 17:58, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I am User:Bookku, On Wikipedia I engage in, finding information and knowledge gap areas in Wikipedia and promoting expansion of related drafts and articles. Came across your edit at Interreligious studies .
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