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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2016)

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Vasilije Ojdanić

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2016)

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Digital Anthropology research

Hello BabbaQ, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely,Stelba90 (talk) 01:30, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2016)

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Alexandra Pascalidou

Hello, BabbaQ -- I apologize for the delay in getting to your article. I have just completed the copy-edit. However, I have a few questions and concerns for you. If you will answer my questions, I would be happy to make the necessary changes.

1) In the third paragraph in Alexandra Pascalidou#Life and career, you mention a television station, ERT. I think the acronym (ERT) should either be spelled out, or linked to something that explains it, or both.

2) The second-to-last sentence in that paragraph is:

• She was the hostess for the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in 2005, and a commentator in Kiev the year when Greece won the competition for the first time.

The last phrase, "the year when Greece won the competition for the first time", is not clear. It's not clear what year that was. If it was in 2005, then the sentence can be re-worded to reflect that. Just let me know. Also, the next sentence starts, "In the same year", so it really has to be clear what year is meant.

3) Toward the beginning of the third paragraph, you say she lived in Greece for two years, and you give examples of her work there. The next paragraph, which consists of only one sentence, reads:

• In January 2007 she became one of five hostesses of Sweden's TV4's Förkväll, a daytime lifestyle program.

So, by then she was back in Sweden. It's not clear whether it was a temporary position, or whether she moved back to Sweden. It might help your readers if you made it clear whether (and when, if possible) she moved back to Sweden. Then what will follow are examples of her work there. We might consider joining this one-sentence paragraph with the next one, since they are all about her jobs in Sweden.

4) Regarding the paragraph that begins, "She participated in the show Pokermiljonen", I would provide dates or years for those jobs.

5) In the sixth paragraph of Alexandra Pascalidou#Life and career, you have this sentence:

• She has blogged continually on Metrobloggen until the newspaper cancelled all cooperation with her, and she gives lectures on diversity and the media, democracy and justice issues, rhetoric and leadership, gender and cultural competence.

(a) The adverb "continually" doesn't provide much information. It would be more helpful to give the date or year when she started blogging and the date or year when she stopped blogging (when the newspaper cancelled cooperation with her). Something like:

• Since 20--, she regularly published a blog on Metrobloggen until the newspaper cancelled their cooperation with her in 20--.

Also, readers will be curious about why the newspaper cancelled their cooperation with her. Can you provide some details about that? (I also think "their connection with her" would be better than "their cooperation with her".)

(b) Regarding the last part of that sentence,

• she gives lectures on diversity and the media, democracy and justice issues, rhetoric and leadership, gender and cultural competence.

(i) I recommend making it a separate sentence since she still does this. Also, it might be helpful to know where she gives these lectures (at universities? at public forums? in Sweden? in other countries?)

(ii) I was a bit puzzled by the grouping of words in this sentence. I see the items are all pairs (two items joined by "and"). If the paired words all belong together like that, it's fine, but then we need to add "and" before the last two: "...and gender and cultural competence". I just wanted to be sure that "gender" and "cultural competence" belong together as a pair.

6) The next paragraph begins with this sentence:

• She has also served on the Board of BRIS (Children's rights in society) and the board of Kvinnojouren Terrafem working with women's rights against men's violence.

(a) I recommend writing out the words of the acronym "BRIS" before giving the acronym. Also, is this a Swedish organization or an international organization?

(b) You had "Kvinnojouren Terrafem" with both words in lower-case (no capital letter). I capitalized the two words since it is an organization. Is there any particular reason why you had them in lower-case? Also, in the phrase:

• working with women's rights against men's violence,

I've got to ask you: when you say "men's violence", do you mean men's violence in general, or men's violence against women? If it is specifically men's violence against women, is it men's violence against women in general, or men's violence against their spouses and partners (and perhaps their children)? If the latter, we can call it "domestic violence" or "domestic abuse".

7) In paragraphs 6 and 7, you have external links. I think these are not supposed to be in the body of an article. You can put them in the "See also" section at the end of the article.

8) In paragraph 7, you have a sentence that begins:

• She sits on the board of the foundation Läxhjälpen, which helps young people in troubled areas...

The word "area" can mean different things. It can mean a geographical area such as a part of a country or part of a city, or it can mean an area of life (domestic life, educational life, private life, public life, politics, etc.) I'm pretty sure you mean a geographical area, so a way to make this clear is:

If you mean areas of Sweden, then say that. Then it will be clear that you mean different parts of the country:

• which helps young people in troubled areas of Sweden.

If you mean areas of the big cities, then I would change "areas" to "neighborhoods":

• which helps young people in troubled areas neighborhoods.

9) You have used two date styles in this article. You have the American style in "July 17, 1970" at the beginning of the article and the British style in "21 January 2016" in the last paragraph of Alexandra Pascalidou#Life and career. These should be consistent, so decide which style you want to use.

10) Here is the the one-sentence last paragraph of the "Life and career" section:

• It was announced on 21 January 2016 that Pascalidou would host the semi-final allocation draw for Eurovision 2016, along with Jovan Radomir, in Stockholm, Sweden.

For the average Wikipedia reader, "the semi-final allocation draw" might be unclear. Can you link this to something that would explain it?

11) In the one-paragraph section Alexandra Pascalidou#Plagiarism and ghost writing, I changed "accounts" to "instances". "Accounts" means stories, so I don't think that is the best word. (I thought of using "counts", but that word is used in the courts. It would be the correct word if you are talking about her being formally charged of plagiarism in court, but if she was not charged, then we can't use that word.) "Instances" means "small events" or "occurrences".

The last part of the last sentence in the paragraph reads:

• in 2015 she was fired from the newspaper Metro after it was revealed that she had translated a Turkish poem by Aziz Nesin.

I don't think it is a crime to translate a poem from one language to another. What is a crime (i.e., plagiarism) is to translate a poem and then publish the translation without indicating who the original author was, making it seem as if you had written the poem. Thus, I think we need to add a few words here:

• in 2015 she was fired from the newspaper Metro after it was revealed that she had translated a Turkish poem by Aziz Nesin without attribution,

or

• without making it clear that Nesin was the author of the original poem.

12) In the last bulleted item in the section Alexandra Pascalidou#Bibliography, you have this sentence:

• The book was hailed by critics and used in schools as tooting literature.

I have no idea what you mean by "tooting literature". I have never seen that phrase before. Do you mean, perhaps, "inspirational literature"? Well, that's all for now.  – Corinne (talk) 21:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

As I am not one of the main contributors to the article in question. And I have the same questions about certain sentences etc as you. I can unfortunately not tell you what is the meaning of those sentences. I will however use your input to try to work on this article. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)