User talk:Spienciak

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Spienciak! Thank you for your contributions. I am Crash Underride and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hello, Spienciak, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Pages Survey

I found this recently on my Talk page in a Disambiguation notice:

"Hi Kencf0618,

I'm a student at American University currently enrolled in a class about Wikipedia. I'm working with another student on a project to get input from Wikipedia users about talk pages and their usefulness as they currently stand. We believe they are difficult to use, track of and are not easy to follow. If you could make any improvements to Wikipedia talk pages overall, 1) Would you? 2) Why or why not? and 3) What would those improvements be?

Thanks, Spienciak (talk) 23:49, 18 April 2016 (UTC)"

I don't know why you're asking me about this, but thanks for asking!

I personally have not found the Talk pages format to be problematic, although some discussion are definitely difficult to follow what with the typical blizzard of acronyms and duelling agendas and sometimes just plain acting out. The great Gamergate controversy editing wars (an extreme case) have attracted academic interest in this regard. (This paper is cited in the "This article has been mentioned by multiple media organisations" section on the Talk page, but you have to dig for it. The archived talk pages themselves are 51 deep!)

http://airwiki.ws.dei.polimi.it/images/1/19/Visual_Tools_Wikipedia_2015.pdf