Humanengr

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Interview request

Hello, Humanengr!

My name is Daniel, and I’m a senior at Harvard University currently writing an undergraduate thesis about Wikipedia. I’m particularly interested in how the Wikipedia community decides what facts are relevant and/or notable enough to warrant inclusion on a particular article — especially in regards to articles on contentious topics.

I noticed that you’ve been quite active editing the “COVID-19 pandemic” article over the past few months. So, would you mind if I send you a few questions (via email or right here) about your work editing that article, and the approach that you take? I’d really love to hear from you.

Thanks so much! --Dalorleon (talk) 16:20, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Just checking in again, Humanengr! I'd love to ask you some questions about your editing work for Wikipedia. Let me know if you're available. If not, no worries! --Dalorleon (talk) 16:16, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Your help desk question

You did not receive a response to this question. Did you find the help you needed?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Thx for checking; issue sufficiently resolved for the moment; will re-ask for help as needed. Humanengr (talk) 00:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

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Tulsi Gabbard political positions inquiry

Hey Humanengr, I saw your message you left on my talk page about taking a look at Tulsi Gabbards political positions, could you clarify for me what I need to look at, I would love to give some notes and help shape up that article. Eruditess (talk) 19:56, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Eruditess, Excellent! I've actually started one approach on this sandbox, where I've been paring down a copy of the existing Pol pos page, removing pretty much all the quotes and trimming material such as that which is sourced only to congress.gov. (I've only pared from the start of the Domestic positions § through Health Care.)

You're welcome to edit that draft into shape to merge onto the bio page to make it conform more to the extent to which Buttigieg, Harris, and Sanders cover their pol pos page mat'l on their bio pages. Does that make sense? (UPDATE: I appended the bio page pol pos § so we have that handy.) Humanengr (talk) 21:22, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Eruditess, I'd welcome your thoughts when you have time. Humanengr (talk) 19:46, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

I made a second version, regrouping under the 6 headings from 1/14/2019 (shortly after campaign announcement). Next step is probably a bit more lower-level rearrangement and further paring. Humanengr (talk) 19:18, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

@Eruditess, I'm thinking now of splitting the bio page Pol Pos § into 3 main sub-§§: Foreign policy, Domestic issues, Governance, with a 4th for Trump administration. Do you have any thoughts on the following:

1. A Foreign policy § structured like this?
2. A Domestic issues § consisting of these §§ in addition to the ones currently on the bio page (Drug policy and criminal justice reform; Environment; Healthcare and GMO labeling; LGBT issues)?
3. A Governance § like this?
4. A Trump administration § like this?

The other main issue of course is which and how much of this material should be added.

Coming at this from the other end, I’m gonna see what can be cleaned up on the existing bio page in advance of whatever might be added from the above.

Humanengr (talk) 20:49, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

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