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— GorillaWarfare talk 18:53, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Amfarr! As you requested, I watchlisted your article. I see you made some changes to it! I hope you don't mind, but I went in and made some quick changes as well. I added a few more wikilinks to the first section, as they were a little sparse. I also formatted the first word of the page -- the subject -- as De-Ba'athification as opposed to "De-Ba'athification", as per the guideline. I also formatted your "See also" section, and combined your bibliography with the references. Keep in mind that I was being bold here, so if I did anything you didn't like, feel free to change it back. Just a few notes -- your citations in the lede look great! There sure are a lot of them, though. I presume you still intend to take out the parenthetical citations? Also, what is meant by "Also look at Chandrasekaran and Shadid books."? — GorillaWarfare talk 14:29, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello GorillaWarfare! I took a look at your revisions, and I appreciate your help! I'm going to hopefully finish putting in references tonight (10/17/10) and then I can focus on consolidating. My professor's instructions for the project so far as that we need to have an outline with at least some information within each topic. To that end, I'm trying to get the article as complete as possible, but I don't have to have it completely together yet (that's the 28th of October!). I will take out the parentheticals and the reference to Chandrasekaran and Shadid are to books that I thought I might reference, but since I do later in the article, I think I'll leave them out of the lede. Thanks again for your help, and after tonight's addition, hopefully it will start looking more like an article! Amfarr21 (talk) 04:01, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey Amfarr21, I've added your article to the "workbench", a new central review area for articles created as part of the Public Policy Initiative. You can find it here. I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed by your work. Good luck! --Fschulenburg (Public Policy) (talk) 22:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
It seems that GorillaWarfare may be full as they've declined other requests. If your request is declined, I'm willing to be your mentor...(Very nice work on Ba'ath Party in your sandbox so far!)Smallman12q (talk) 12:40, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello there! Just checking in on your progress with the article. It seems you have added to the article, rather than shortened it...? — GorillaWarfare talk 14:27, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks for checking up on the article. I know it's longer, but I spoke with my professor here at Georgetown, and her thought was that the length wasn't really an issue since it is a large topic. My thought, to try and strike a compromise is to put the article out there as it stands, and see what the readers think. What do you think of this idea? Amfarr21 (talk) 18:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Talk:De-Ba'athification Policy's talk page. — GorillaWarfare talk 17:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article De-Ba'athification, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
-- Cirt (talk) 12:04, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at GorillaWarfare's talk page.
Hi Amfarr21, a (late) congratulations on getting your article onto the Did You Know section on the Wikipedia front page! As you probably saw, the work you did on the De-Ba'athification article was viewed by 1.6 thousand people on November 7th! Great job, and keep it up! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 07:30, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Alin! I was happy to see it up on the DYK page, and I'm glad to hear that so many people were able to view the article!Amfarr21 (talk) 20:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that you have the largest contribution (byte-wise) to the article namespace out of all of the USPP initiative students? Impressive! — GorillaWarfare talk 19:47, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey GorillaWarfare- I saw that on a page Dr. Davis sent us, and the link you provided! Thanks again for all your help this semester! Amfarr21 (talk) 02:55, 2 December 2010 (UTC)