User talk:AndySLord

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Hi, I've twice redirected an article you created, because it's unacceptable in the form you've offered. It appeared to have been composed of original research, and depended entirely on other Wikipedia articles as sources, which is not allowed. I chose to redirect it to a logical current article, rather than propose it for deletion outright. Please read policies at WP:RELIABLE and WP:NOR. Thanks, and happy editing, 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, having another stab at it with some key references; slowly figuring out the markup ;)AndySLord (talk) 15:21, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (May 10)[edit]

{{subst:Afc decline|full=User:AndySLord/sandbox|cv=no|reason=reason|details=What is the subject of this draft meant to be?

This draft both lacks references (see [[WP:REFB|referencing for beginners), and lacks a proper lede sentence defining the scope of the article.|comment=|sig=yes}}

Hello! AndySLord, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 16:41, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural evolution sandbox[edit]

Hi Andy,

I hope you don't mind, but I've taken the liberty of moving your draft to Draft:Cultural evolution so we can work on it together there for a bit before submitting it to the article namespace. Joe Roe (talk) 13:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again AndySLord (talk) 14:13, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Developing Cultural Evolution page[edit]

I have the opportunity to develop the Cultural Evolution page as part of an assignment. What areas in particular do you think should be expanded upon? Is there anything in the page that should be added that isn't there already? ChristiannM (talk) 14:32, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks. There are quite a few of the sub-headings that could do with some fleshing out. We are looking for a brief paragraph or so on each and a link to the relevant main article. As you can see, quite a bit needs doing. Is your assignment mostly cultural evolution or mostly wiki-page editing (or both)? AndySLord (talk) 17:13, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It would be an assignment on developing the cultural evolution page, but I'm choosing between this and dual inheritance theory as my focus. There are others in my class, one of whom will almost certainly choose to develop this page. ChristiannM (talk) 19:42, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that would be ideal if one of you were going to focus editing the DIT page, and presumably others were looking into other aspects such as memetics (out of curiosity what is the class and where?) Then I would suggest that "specialist" do a short paragraph entry for the CE wiki page with links to their own editing.

We get to choose what page we do as long as it's in the scope of psychology/cultural evolution, so the topic choices are broader than just this kind of thing. It's a psychology class at LSE. Would you know what to develop on the DIT page? ChristiannM (talk) 18:03, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, LSE teaching CE. I do have some ideas you might want to think about regarding DIT and its relation to CE. PM me: from column on the left - Tools>Email this user.

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

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Nomination of Cultural evolution for deletion[edit]

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_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:59, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]