Unit 2 Editing "Post Your Article Evaluation:" Which article? Post where?

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Dr. Lucas,

On this page, I have a question about this specific assignment.

In the assignment, under Item 2 Wikipedia Training, three parts are listed. In the first part, Evaluating Articles and Sources, you mention choosing one of the two Mailer articles the class will edit for Wikipedia. Sure, no problem. The second part, How to Edit, is self-explanatory as well. However, I am confused by the third part, Post Your Article Evaluation.

Here are my specific questions:

  1. Is this item connected to Item 1? In other words, should I be evaluating one of the two Mailer articles (the one I have assigned myself)? Or, should it be a unique article?
  2. The Item 3 link takes me to a Wikipedia page within your user space and says “post your evaluation here.” However, if I edit this page, won’t that show for everyone and be discourteous to classmates? Should I clone this code to my own user space and fill it out there?
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Sorry, I try to keep the assignments generic, so when I reuse them, I’m not referring to another class’ assignments. Evaluate one of these articles (under the Wikipedia Project collaborative assignment):

Your evaluation, I believe, should be posted to your talk page? What is “this page” you refer to?

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The link on the assignment page takes me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Grlucas/Evaluate_an_Article?veaction=edit&preload=Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org_evaluate_article

This appears to be a page in your user space. If I answer here, am I messing up others seeing a “blank” page to fill in?

Should I copy the code to my own user page?

Thanks,
Sherrill

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Oh, I see. The link on D2L was wrong (I fixed it). Here’s the right one:

You can use your sandbox for drafting.

Thanks for catching these, and sorry for the confusion.

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