User talk:Eadoss

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Hello, Eadoss, 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) 05:02, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Adam[edit]

Thank you Adam Eadoss (talk) 05:07, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Locnamehn (talk) 06:32, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Locnamehn (talk) 21:37, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think they should all be done now. Last week I went through and did 8 trainings I think, because I didn't know which ones to do, so I did them all. IS everything up to date now? Thanks --Eadoss (talk) 23:53, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Locnamehn (talk) 19:08, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review[edit]

Hi Eadoss! This is Eacat27 (Emily) from class and I have read through your article on Theda Skocpol and will be doing a peer review. Since nothing has been assigned to peer review yet, I just decided to choose which articles I wanted to tackle. OK, so first off, I think that the lead section or "Introduction" is very clear, concise, and tells the reader a summary of who Dr. Skocpol is without providing too much information. It discusses what she is known for in her line of work, her current employment, some of her awards and recognition, as well as a brief summary of some of her published or edited works. All of these are important in a lead section about Dr. Skocpol. Next, the structure and balance of the overall article. This article is very easy to read and balanced in terms of the different sections giving, generally, an equal amount of information. For the sources, they all seem to be reliable and provide important information pertaining to Dr. Skocpol's life achievements or her published works. In the "References" section, there does seem to be two citations that do not fit in with the other sources, so make sure to properly cite those as one of the used, numbered sources if you used them as references. As for general strengths of what you have edited thus far, I think that your additions have strengthened the article. I noticed on the Talk page of the article you had mentioned some of the edits you were planning on tackling, such as adding "Dr." before her last name, which I think was a smart change. I also think that updating the page with her current employment was also a strong change. Another great thing that you did was update and lengthen the 'Published Works" section, which I think was important in this article. Now onto some further suggestions to improve upon this article. First, in going through the sections, I noticed that in the "Biography" section, there were some embedded Wiki links for "Bringing the State Back In", "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers", and "Diminished Democracy", where the links say that the pages do not exist. That may be something to work on. Also, there is a sentence that I think needs re-wording in the "Diminished Democracy" section, "Dr. Skocpol talks about how to reverse it in explaining how the US became a civic nation, the organizers of that movement, management of civic organizations, changes in them..." I felt that it didn't flow as well as the other sentences, mainly "the organizers of the movement" and so on. Just something to think about. Overall, I think it is a well organized article and so far, your edits have helped strengthen the page! Eacat27 (talk) 13:37, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]