User talk:Craig Butz

School Project

I have some concerns about your students' projects. As a freely accessible, user-editable website, not only is it possible your students' work will be editted by other users or by each other, it has already happened. Also, it would be nice if your students used the Wikipedia conventions to link to other related topics via the [[]] tags around important words, used '' and ''' for italics and bolding, etc. Please see some other peoples concerns at School Project. Thanks! - UtherSRG 15:35, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC) ⊙

Craig,
It's a simple matter to create sub-pages. One need simply make the link for where you want the page to be, then edit it. For instance, let's say we wanted to move this discussion to a sub-page of your talk page. Since your talk page is User talk:Craigbutz, I can create a sub-page at User talk:Craigbutz/School Project. After I save this edit, I can then enter into the new link and edit there. You could have a whole tree of pages off of any page: User:Craigbutz/School Projects and User:Craigbutz/School Projects/Session 1 (and Session 2, Session 3, etc) and User:Craigbutz/School Projects/Session 1/John Doe. An alternative would be for your students to create their assignements as sub-pages off of their own page. To keep track of their assignments, you could continue to keep the tree I described above (down to the Session level) and then link to your students work sub-pages from there. Many options! Use what works best for you. I think you've created a really neat project, now that I understand it better.

I'm guessing you had to prepare your students not just for writing on Wikipedia, but also the nature of writing in a public venue, as well as some Wiki elements like italics and bolding. Sub-pages can make the writing more private. One of the further benefits to using sub-pages and the (relative) privacy sub-pages engender is the ability to more slowly bring new Wiki elements in to play after some of the initial writing has begun.

Best of luck to you and your students. I do not envy the task you have set for yourself, but I think your students are luck to have you.

Sincerely,
UtherSRG aka Stacey Greenstein

And once such a personal subpage has grown into a valid article it can be easily moved into the main namespace, with all the editing history kept - just use the "Move this page" link. andy 10:37, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I've moved the Eyebrow makeover article to your user space as it was suggested on VfD that this be deleted. If it becomes encyclopedic, you can move it back the main namespace. It is now at User:Craigbutz/Eyebrow makeover. Angela. 19:50, Jan 27, 2004 (UTC)

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Proposed revisions: Ivanpah Solar Power Facility

My name is Susan Chana and I work for an agency that represents NRG Energy. We are looking for some assistance in making some corrections and updates to the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility article. Following are some of the most important updates for you to consider:

• Article references in 1st paragraph that facility is not yet fully operational and all the solar power towers are currently operational.

• Article states in 2nd paragrah under "Description" that construction on the project was halted because it was impacting desert tortoises. The US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) said that it was not likely to impact them

• Within the "Environmental Impact" section the article references that bird deaths in 2014 will range between 1,000 and 28,000. This impact can be narrowed down and we can offer some specific #'s as the facility must report bird deaths on a monthly basis. From Jan - June 2014 the facility reported 321 bird deaths with 133 being directly related to sunlight being reflected into the boilers. A April 2014 USFWS report states that 141 birds were collected at Ivanpah last Fall and that 47 of the deaths were attributed to the boilers.

• The final sentence in the "Environmental Impacts" section is not related to Ivanpah, but to to the Palen power plant.

That is just a sampling and we are not asking that anything subjective be changed. We would only like to be sure the facts are accurate.

Thanks for your consideration.

SusanChana (talk) 18:23, 15 September 2014 (UTC)SusanChana