Wikipedia Edits

Edit a Wikipedia Entry

The assignment:

• Please find and edit an entry on Wikipedia relating to a topic for which you have some level of expertise. The edits should be more than cosmetic and should actually enhance the substance of the article. See Wikipedia: Introduction for more information.
• Add an explanation of your edits to your chosen article's talk page. This need not be longer than a sentence or two.
• Following your edits, add to this page a link to the article you edited along with a brief explanation of your changes and the username you used on Wikipedia.
• Edits are due by class on Thursday morning.
• Before class on Thursday, check your edits and see whether anything has happened to them. Report any changes on this page.
• If you need a place to start, considering looking for stubs (short articles that need to be expanded).

Cyberlaw edits Wikipedia!

• Example: Updated the entry on sport climbing to add information about rock climbing ratings in the United States, as well as to include a discussion of climbing ethics. See the diff by Example. No changes were made. --sign your name by entering four tildas

• I've taken over Berger v. New York and am sprucing it up. If I have time later, I'll start a flamewar somewhere more contentious. --Erin Simon

• I've taken a stab at Patent infringement to try and clean up the indirect infringement section and provide references into Chisum. --Mgalese 18:31, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• I've added a bit on St. Louis to try to comment on the proposed legislation to make Budweiser the official beer of the State of Missouri. --Ryan Vacca

• I replaced the 3rd and 4th paragraphs of the Puerto Rico entry [1]. The previous text was unfortunately ambiguous and relied on poor references. The new text clarifies the Island's constitutional status and relationship to the US and adds reliable sources. I suspect this won't be taken lightly by some people since this is a controversial subject back home. --Hiram

• I recently updated the the entry on my high school, KLHT, to detail which athletic conferences the school is a member of and to list a couple notable former athletes who I played football with in my days there. BWiegand 20:18, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• I laid down some law over at the page on antitrust tying arrangements, adding a new section detailing the relevant factors and correcting/developing the discussion of the Microsoft case, inter alia. --KHickey 20:34, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• I adjusted a vague line about two streets near my apartment (Clinton Street and Orchard Street) in the Lower East Side neighborhood post. -Shawn

• I tweaked the description of Joint Implementation projects under the Kyoto Protocol, basically re-writing the whole thing since it was very basic and didn't really have cites. --Edithpb 21:57, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• I corrected/added information to the entry on Cable 13, the student-run TV station at Duke... and got immediately reverted. It liked me better the second time. --Lexi

• I modified the paragraph on Tommy Williams on the Shawshank Redemption page. I included Red's "B&E" quote and linked to the burglary page.--Michael Reed

• Edited entry on Emergency Medical Technician - Basic by adding substantive content including clarifying the legal constraints on the scope of practice for EMT-Bs; also restructured the article by adding and moving sections and subsections, and corrected a number of typos and spelling errors. I also tried to bring the section headers and more of the text into compliance with the Wikipedia Manual of Style (MoS). See detailed list of my edits here, which I submitted anonymously with the name "Michael" in quotes because I don't want to create an account. --Michael Schakow 07:57, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

• I added a note on the Scandecor Judgement of the UK House of Lords on [2] under the heading of public policy as regards the aspect of trademark licensing. Aditya Thakkar

• I added some information about local brown bear populations and diet on the Katmai National Park page and noted an informative link on the discussion page but did not include it in the article. --Derek Gluckman

• I added a recent update (posted today, Wednesday) from Wizards of the Coast regarding the upcoming Shadowmoor set, as confirming some earlier rumors regarding the set's theme. No one's reverted me yet, and since I was the first to add the new reference, I think it'll stick. Mike M. 14:24, 12 March 2008 (EDT)