User talk:Dwfelice

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:01, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Duplicate assignment at Talk:Interpersonal communication

Dwfelice, in your edit at Talk:Interpersonal communication you added a duplicate Wiki Ed assignment template. Instead of having two of them, can you just add your assignment to the existing one? Adding Shalor. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

• Hi Mathglot! Thank you for letting me know about this - as far as I can tell, it looks like the first student signed up to review the article but later removed their name from it, which didn't end up getting reflected on the page. I'll pass this along to see if we can figure out what happened here. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
• Oh - I see what happened - you'd added it. As far as the review part goes, this part is usually meant to signify that the student will be reviewing their peer's work. This is probably what Tcjohnson11 will do (it's common for students to do a review of the article as part of the assignment, then later review their peer's work for the same article if they don't select it themselves), but I think that's why they didn't add the article to the Dashboard. I've tagged them so they can give their input on this. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:13, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi! There's nothing else you need to do - the template that's there is correct.

It looks like you're supposed to start/continue drafting your contributions to the interpersonal deception theory article. What you need to do is determine what needs to be added or fixed in the article. Offhand here's what I noticed:

• The article needs more sourcing, as some of this looks to be undersourced.

• The section on online dating needs to be worked on, as its only source is a qualitative study. Studies are seen as primary sources on Wikipedia because they're written by the person who conducted or was otherwise involved with the study. Most publishers don't provide any context or commentary on the study's findings and most also only look for glaring errors that would invalidate the study. Now since this source is a Master's Thesis it may have more editorial oversight than a journal, but the issues of it being a primary source remain. If we can find a secondary source that covers the study's findings (like a literature review) then that would help resolve the concerns with it being a primary source.

A good option here would be to find more sourcing and information about IDT and relationships and then expand/re-write the section to be more general about this in relationships. I did a quick search for online dating and IDT but found predominantly only studies. There seems to be more for relationships in general, to be honest.

• Another thing to look at would be to go through the article and add or correct information as needed. For example, look to see if anything is out of date or too vague. If this is the case, then edit the article to correct the content.

• The history section could likely be expanded, as it looks to only cover a few specific people.

I hope that this all helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Shalor - much appreciated. I'm looking forward to getting these Wiki training wheels off so I can start moving faster! Dwfelice (talk) 17:12, 22 September 2019 (UTC)