User talk:Matttbrown

Hello,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm your campus ambassador Gabe and I enjoyed talking with you yesterday about Wikipedia. I've put a few notes and helpful links, particularly about how to find images here: Education Program talk:Boston College/History of the American West (2013 Q1). Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about editing Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy this assignment and I look forward to seeing your contributions. Best, GabrielF (talk) 17:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Reviewing your sandbox

Hi Matt,

I took a look at the draft in your sandbox. Overall I thought you did well, but I have one small concern. In your citations, you frequently use "Ibid.". This works in scholarly writing, but it is discouraged on Wikipedia because if people add new citations or shuffle sentences around then Ibid doesn't make sense any more. A better approach is to use shortened footnotes, where you put the author and year and page in the <ref></ref> tags and then you set it up so that the author and year is linked and when you click it you get the full citation. This is explained at Help:Shortened footnotes. GabrielF (talk) 20:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Help us improve the Wikipedia Education Program

Hi Matttbrown! As a student editor on Wikipedia, you have a lot of valuable experience about what it's like to edit as a part of a classroom assignment. In order to help other students like you enjoy editing while contributing positively to Wikipedia, it's extremely helpful to hear from real student editors about their challenges, successes, and support needs. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions by clicking below. (Note that the responses are posted to a public wiki page.) Thanks!

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