User talk:Bmichelleh

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Hello, Bmichelleh, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Lake Wedowee

That is good stuff, but I wish you'd also looked in Google Books; this may not have much, but it has something--and it's a published book. That always beats a website. Google News doesn't have much--though it seems a lot of people have drowned there, and at some point (some number) that becomes worthwhile. And what's in here? Dr Aaij (talk) 03:49, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

• Dr Aaij, I have added more information from google books as you suggested. I do still plan to add more, though. There is a tag at the top of the article that I was wondering about. Would it be appropriate to remove the tag since I have added all the citations? Bmichelleh (talk) 00:28, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
  • I think so, yes--I am going to take care of that book citation; perhaps you can clean up the other ones. Oh, and remove that last sentence--"the community continues to grow" etc. Right now that's just sort of a cliche; if it's verifiable, with numbers, then that's another matter. Good work. Dr Aaij (talk) 01:23, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Three Poems

Hi there, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your work on the article Three Poems. I'm just letting you know that I reverted your recent edit because you removed a lot of references without leaving a edit summary explaining why. Generally, references shouldn't be removed, so if you need to remove them for some reason you should tell other editors why you're doing it. It's also good practice to leave an edit summary for every edit, even if it's minor. If I've misunderstood what you're doing, feel free to revert my edit. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 01:36, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

• SpicyMilkBoy I took the references out because they were formulated with the automatic formatting machine. It came up with something crazy for most of the references. I added all of the same references back but made them more straight forward and simple. Thank you for the heads up! Bmichelleh (talk) 02:01, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

No problem and good work on the article. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 02:05, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Randolph High School

I'm not sure if you could locate this book or the specific case or material that it was discussing, but it looks like it discusses the fire. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:47, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

• I think it's referencing this, where a preacher's son was tied to the arson but later cleared. In any case, it looks like during the trial one of the claims was that Humphries himself possibly set the fire. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:49, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Shalor (Wiki Ed), Thank you! I actually just added some information via the NY Times and LA Times links you suggested. I will definitely look into the book. Thanks, Bmichelleh (talk) 16:59, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

• No problem! This really is a fascinating topic - I can't believe that the guy effectively got away with spewing such horrible things. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Randolph County High School

Hello! Your submission of Randolph County High School at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thats Just Great (talk • contribs) 17:54, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Three Poems

Hi, I have some notes about this article:

• You have extended clips of various poems in the article. This poses somewhat of an issue of copyright. It's not that we can't use bits of copyrighted work in articles, it's just that it's difficult to justify them under fair use. I think that these should be OK, but I'm a little leery about them since Wikipedia can sometimes be a little overprotective when it comes to copyright, something they do to safeguard the site. I'll tag your professor Dr Aaij to see if he has any advice on this end.

• The content section is written too much like your own personal interpretation of the poems. Keep in mind that we can only summarize what others have stated. If these interpretations were made by others in the source material then I would make sure to attribute those to the authors via things like "According to..." and "This Person states that...". In general though you want to avoid adding anything that is an opinion to an article that isn't explicitly stated in the source material. Be cautious since some wording can be non-neutral and subjective even if this wasn't the intention.

• I'm a little uncertain about the source Tweetspeak since it looks to be a relatively obscure website. What works in their favor is that they have a set staff that puts out work and doesn't accept unsolicited work as they instead will approach the other person to write something. At the same time, however, there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot out there about the site as far as how other reliable sources view them. I'd say to go ahead and use it as long as your professor is OK, however just be prepared to defend its use if necessary.

Other than that I think that you've done well so far with the article and most of the notes I have are ones that can be pretty easily fixed, most notably through attribution. The others are just head's up to watch out for some things and not ones I'm really seriously worried about. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:27, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Randolph County High School

On 22 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Randolph County High School, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1994, the principal of Alabama's Randolph County High School threatened to cancel prom if interracial couples planned to attend? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Randolph County High School. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Randolph County High School), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:03, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

• 4,748 people looked at your article... Dr Aaij (talk) 14:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)