User talk:LeeRamsey

Phlegm

Nope, that photo was from the flu I had over new years. Strange that one of my thoughts when I was hacking that up was "gee, I wonder if Wikipedia has a photo of phlegm."  :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 16:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wilder

I'm looking to start an article on the case Wilder v. New York City Department of Social Services, I'm fairly certain that it meets notability requirements, but I'm not entire sure how I should proceed with the actual article? Ideas/directions on where to find out would be greatly appreciated.LeeRamsey (talk) 04:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't written any articles on cases from scratch. I think there's probably a template at WikiProject Law or else you should try modeling it on another U.S. case. There are specific infoboxes to use. If you need help I can assist, but I know nothing of the case. I suggest you start the article, including some references and let me know, I'll come and take a look and suggest ideas on the talk page and fix things I see that need fixing. - By the way, you had a question on your user page about using italics, I placed the case name in italics for you so you could see what I did, you just use two single quotes, i.e. '' (a single set of double quotes " won't work) on each end of the text or click the button at the top of the edit window for italics if you have one.--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 04:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd just like to express my gratitude . . . Stuff like that means a lot to a user who hasn't even been on a full two days yet. You're very welcome, I noticed you're looking for someone to adopt you, I'm looking into what that involves, I've never done it before, but maybe I should - if you're interested. I noticed you also had a book title listed but I left that for you to put in italics yourself if you wanted. Consider this your 'barnstar substitute'. Sounds great, I'll keep your post on my talk page so I have a record, who knows when I might need it someday. ;-)--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 22:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be thrilled if you adopted me . . . OK  Done--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 05:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First Lesson

Please review Wikipedia:Trifecta focusing on Rule #2. This is much simpler than the Five Pillars and more concise. After you review that, if you understand Rule #2, nothing else matters, ask what technical questions you will and I'll try my best to help.  :-)--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 06:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A few suggestions

May I suggest a couple of things?

1) Put the template {{userpage}} at the top of your userpage. This isn't required but it is nice in the event your userpage should ever confuse any other new user into thinking it's an article. I've seen two recently that looked like articles on Wikipedia:Miscellany for Deletion, neither had this tag, both survived but you get the point.

2) Create a personal sandbox. The best way is to put My personal [[User:LeeRamsey/Sandbox|Sandbox]] or something similar on your userpage and then click on the redlink and type {{User Sandbox}} and save the page. You can then use this an area to practice edits and using some templates (a few, like deletion templates, will cause trouble if you put them there). You can have as many sandboxes as you want and they don't have to be called "sandbox". I have 4 or 5.

3) Work on some of the expansions you have listed but start putting the article on the book together. I think that will be the easiest project you have to launch and you will learn a lot from creating an article. Before you try though be sure to read up on naming conventions for books.

--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 05:23, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'd put the {{userpage}} at the top of User:LeeRamsey rather than this talk page, that's more common.--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 07:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Personal

Sandbox

• Good! The link on your userpage is in an odd location, but then I have trouble getting text and templates to fit together too and what better place (other than the sandbox) to play around with that than your userpage?!--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 05:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good work

I've been keeping an eye on some of your edits and you appear to be doing great work. Getting down in the trenches and doing copyediting is very much appreciated by all. Thank you. Let me know if you need any assistance, technical or otherwise, and especially if you get into a disagreement with any other editors. When it comes time to write those articles, if you haven't already started somewhere and I just didn't notice, let me know and I'll see what I can do to help. Keep up the good work.--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 05:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mentorship area

Hey, I haven't heard much from you, if you're interested I've created an area for my mentees at User:Doug/Mentorship. We can create a page for coordinating/discussing issues at User:Doug/Mentorship/LeeRamsey if you like. How are things going overall? Anything I can help with?--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 00:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spring Break

(discussion moved from User talk:Doug for unified discussion)

Spring break is next week, so I should be able to get a solid start on my 'WikiGoals'. I can't help but feel that it's slightly pathetic that I'm excited about writing/overhauling Wikipedia articles over spring break. Granted, I became excited the other day over the prospect of comparing the colonial-era histories of Iraq and Vietnam, so I should be used to it by now, but still. Your devoted menteeLeeRamsey (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you can get pretty involved in this stuff and lose sight of the real world, sometimes that's good, sometimes that's not.  :-) Comparing colonial histories - wow! that's heavy stuff. You could do a post-grad thesis on something like that. Where are you looking to do that kind of work? (maybe a little to WP:OR for an article, maybe not, but certainly there's a lot that could be done on that topic outside of the scope of this Project]]) I'd be interested to hear more in any case. I have a particular interest in Iraq (been there - done that kind of interest), so feel free to e-mail me to discuss further. Looking forward to when you're back editing actively, I've got some questions and some thoughts for you.--Doug.^(talk • contribs) 00:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mainstreaming

I saw your gripe at mainstreaming. I replied there to the parts that are relevant for the article. As for yourself -- there are polite and respectful ways to decline requests to teach fellow students. If you dislike playing the teacher, then figure out how to communicate your preferences to the relevant teachers. Learning how to say "no" is a valuable skill. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not upset by your message: I've been there, done that and have the T-shirt to prove it. A quiet chat outside of class with the offending teacher(s) could get you out of that situation. Alternatively, creative ways of not being (or at least appearing) quite finished with your in-class work can also be remarkably effective.

I'd really love to have a reliable source for this complaint. It could be useful in both special ed articles (mainstreaming, inclusion) and gifted ed articles. The complaint comes up more often than the average teacher wants to admit, and contrary to popular belief, the top 3-5% of students often feel -- well, about like you did. After a few times, it quits being an opportunity to help out, and starts to feel like an inappropriate imposition. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John Taylor Gatto, mainstreaming

Saw your conversation with Whatamidoing and though you might be interested in this guy. There is a range of his work floating around the web, including "The Underground History of American Education"[[1]]. SmithBlue (talk) 06:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting vandalism

In this edit to biscuit to biscuit, you said that you were reverting vandalism. However, you didn't get all the vandalism, and the mess was only fully cleaned up three days later. See Help:Reverting for how to revert vandalism correctly. Since you used the word "reverting", I assumed you knew what you were doing, and didn't check the edits thoroughly in my watchlist until now. Graham87 00:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]