Talk:Claudia L. Thomas

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Hey Group 12!

Great job so far on your Wikipedia page.

I have a few thoughts about this page... -Definitely re read the sections, I think in some areas the sentences are not flowing and I had a hard time following along. -In the early life section, the last two sentences, I was not exactly sure what you are meaning by there. I think in that section too, if there is more I would add about her early life. The quote too about her childhood pediatrician I do not think that necessarily belongs in this section. I would mention the doctor, and stating that she is African American but I don't think the stethoscope part needs to be included. -In the education section: I would take out the first sentence. This section should primarily focus on all the education she attained and not necessarily talk about what her mother wanted. Maybe that sentence could be added to an intro or the early life section? Maybe if your articles included the years she also attended the schools and the years she graduated, I would say that would be a good add on to this section!

-In the Career section: Overall good, I like the add ons of the dates as well. Maybe areas of improvement are in the sentences? Are there any quotes you can add, as to what Thomas was thinking/feeling, etc during this time in her career? -Social Impact Section: I think some of the items in this section about the education aspect should be put in the education section, specifically that she was the first women to graduate from the medical program. Just discuss the SAS and what she did while at these certain schools but not adding that she was the first woman to graduate.

Overall, I really liked your page. I would definitely add a picture of her to your page as well.

L. Thomason: Thank you for the tips, they're very helpful!

Emilygaddie (talk) 03:43, 14 October 2016 (UTC)Emily

Greetings group 12,

Overall, this article looks good and gives lots of helpful information; however, there are a few changes I would make to improve the article. -In the first section (early life) the flow of the sentences is hard to read, and there are some grammatical changes that should be made to help out with this flow. -Some of the information is repeated in separate sections, such as the bit about her parents valuing education and earlier saying education was a high priority. The entry also repeats the part about her residency at Yale. Everything else looks good, just make sure each section has its own information. Emily also gives some good tips, I just didn't want to repeat what she said.

L. Thomason: Will take this into consideration in bettering the page, thank you!

CturnerSOC (talk) 10:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC).

Hello Group 12, Your article is a good start, however one thing I found confusing is your use of her last name when referring to her. You mention the family alot and the family has the same last name as her. This makes it confusing as to who you're talking about. I would suggest mentioning their full name including the last name the first time you introduce them and then when mentioned again, you can use just their first name. There were a couple of sections that used "her" more often than is needed. Reword the sentence so that you don't have to refer to Claudia as 'her' all the time. Another thing is that if she eventually got her doctorate, you should be addressing her as Dr. Thomas in the title as well as throughout the text, not just after saying that she got her doctorate. I think the career part is a bit lacking in information compared to the rest of the entries. Citations look good however a bit incomplete. Some information looks like it still needs to be cited. Overall, I think you all did well getting your general idea out there and I like the tone of your article, very unbiased just referencing the facts. Good luck!

L. Thomason: Thanks! I will be keeping this in mind.

1Canelak (talk) 12:37, 14 October 2016 (UTC).

Hi Group 12! I think as a whole this article gives a lot of great and informative information! I think in each section just re-read it and add in some transition sentences so the information comes together and flows just little better! Maybe look over sentence starters and change or come up with some other ways you could start each sentence, especially in the career section just so it doesn't sound repetitive. Also in the career section I would maybe change the way you addressed her. I just got little confused and had to go back to re-read. In the early life section I think you did a great job introducing who she was and where she came from, I think something should be added in there about the main point of the article though. I feel like I didn't clearly know the main point or what she achieved until the last section of the Wiki page. Those are just very minor ideas I had, I think you guys did a really great job! A picture might be a fun add on too?? Other then that good luck! It looks great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kennac (talk • contribs) 19:34, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

L. Thomason: Thank your for your tips and comments!

Feedback

Nice work on your draft. There are a few things that need to be addressed.

1. Articles about living people need to be based on the best available sources. And you need to document your sources properly. Encyclopedia.com isn't your actual source (which is good), rather, the source is Contemporary Black Biography. And despite what it says on Google Books, Thomson Gale isn't actually the author - it's the publisher. You'll have to dig a bit to figure out the proper citation. When you do, please format it properly by filling out the Cite Book template using the Cite tool on the VisualEditor.

   Your third source is empty. Your fourth source isn't properly formatted (hence the red warning text) and your fifth source is a bare URL. You need to format that properly as well.

2. You need to create a lead section. Please see pages 7-9 of the Editing Wikipedia brochure. You should have received a hard copy from your instructor, but just in case, I have linked to it above.
3. Section headers use sentence capitalization, not title capitalization; only the first word of the title, and proper nouns, should be capitalized.
4. You need to add links to other articles. Terms that might not be familiar to the average reader should be linked to. Also remember that your audience is the whole world, not just Americans, so spell out "Florida", don't just use FL.
   (If you reply to this message here, please include {{ping|Ian (Wiki Ed)}} in your response, to ensure that I see your reply.)
   Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. We fixed most of the issues with our page and we are currently finishing up fixing the last issues. Baileygonzales (talk) 21:40, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

L. Thomason: Will do, thank you!

Claudia L. Thomas

As the subject of this article, I had edited portions which I felt were inaccurate and grammatically incorrect. My edits do not appear. As I am a Wikipedia novice, perhaps something was incorrect with my edits.I did not write this article or approve it prior to reading it. I was not even aware of the article until a patient asked about my PTSD, which I do not haveGodsparelife (talk) 17:05, 4 May 2017 (UTC) or ever had. I would ask that my corrections be put in place.Godsparelife (talk) 17:05, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

i'm assuming your edits were reverted as wikipedia has a policy against bias/conflict of interest, so by you editing your own page, there can be implicit bias. however, i saw nothing wrong with the edits you made (they were all grammatically sound and non-promotional) so i've put them back into the article. unsure what other wikipedia users may say about it, though. CanoeUnlined (talk) 00:56, 7 August 2017 (UTC)