User talk:Shelby McPherson

Hi! I'm "{{u|Madalibi}}". I saw your message at WikiProject China and I just left you that big welcome message above. I just wanted to say hi more directly and to offer my help for any problem you may have with editing Wikipedia. Two very useful skills to have:

• To link to another wiki, just add double square brackets around the title of an article, like this: All China Women's Federation, which will display as All-China Women's Federation.
• To make a footnote, add "Content of your footnote" at the end of a sentence.

I also wonder if your class has a project page? If not, ask your professor to check out Wikipedia:School and university projects (or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects if typing the url directly). Besides a lot of useful advice, this page explains how to set up a class page where you, your classmates, and your prof will receive help from a lot of friendly Wikipedians! Speaking of friendly people, let me recommend {{u|Anna Frodesiak}}, who lives in China and must be the most welcoming and helpful person on Wikipedia. Don't hesitate to contact her if you see I'm not responsive, as I take occasional wikibreaks. So welcome again, and I hope you enjoy your experience as a Wikipedia editor! {{=3|friend}} Madalibi (talk) 15:53, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

:Thank you, Madalibi, for the kind words. :) Shelby, I'm always around if you need me. Best wishes to all. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:33, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I love you're edits on the All-China Women's Federation article! I happened to stumble over it when I was checking through the GAN (I've nominated the Communist Party of China article.. However, there are some problems, all of then having to do with referencing. First, you don't reference like this;

The early women’s movement in China focused on eradicating the assumption that women were inferior to men.Ka Yee Tsui, Justina. “Chinese Women: Active Revolutionaries or Passive Followers? A History of the All-China Women’s Federation, 1949–1996.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 1998. The early reformers believed that women needed help to improve their own attitudes about themselves, since even the women generally considered themselves to be inferior to men. The Chinese Communist Party had shown an early interest in protecting the rights of women. During the 2nd National Congress in 1922 the CCP issued a statement arguing for the end of Chinese traditions that repress women. The CCP also released a formal letter ensuring equality under the law for both men and women, and guaranteed equal pay for both genders during the 3rd National Congress.

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;but like this;

The early women’s movement in China focused on eradicating the assumption that women were inferior to men.{{sfn|Tsui|1998|p=page number?}} The early reformers believed that women needed help to improve their own attitudes about themselves, since even the women generally considered themselves to be inferior to men. The Chinese Communist Party had shown an early interest in protecting the rights of women. During the 2nd National Congress in 1922 the CCP issued a statement arguing for the end of Chinese traditions that repress women. The CCP also released a formal letter ensuring equality under the law for both men and women, and guaranteed equal pay for both genders during the 3rd National Congress.

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;Articles and journal entries

• {{cite news | title = [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0004/MQ39428.pdf Chinese Women: Active Revolutionaries or Passive Followers? A History of the All-China Women’s Federation, 1949–1996] | publisher = Faculty of Arts and Science of Concordia University | year = 1998 | author = Tsui, Justin Ka Yee | pp = 1–115 (only if its a journal entry)}}

;you do the same with books, at last, then comes the missing references;

The early women’s movement in China focused on eradicating the assumption that women were inferior to men.{{sfn|Tsui|1998|p=page number?}} The early reformers believed that women needed help to improve their own attitudes about themselves, since even the women generally considered themselves to be inferior to men. The Chinese Communist Party had shown an early interest in protecting the rights of women. During the 2nd National Congress in 1922 the CCP issued a statement arguing for the end of Chinese traditions that repress women. The CCP also released a formal letter ensuring equality under the law for both men and women, and guaranteed equal pay for both genders during the 3rd National Congress.

:everything in black lacks a reference (at least, it looks like that).. You can either reference each sentence (as I like to do, see Communist Party of China), or reference a whole paragraph with one source, at the very end. Every quote has to be directly followed by a ref... As said before, this doesn't work ''"State Feminism?" Gender and Socialist State Formation in Maoist China." Feminist Studies. no. 3 (519–551).', because its difficult for editors to actually to verify the sources if you type; 519–551; 2, 3 page numbers max in each ref. At last, I'm not trying to be negative, but as it stands now, because of the referencing, the article will fail good article nomination. Anyhow, the best of luck, just ask if you need any help in the future. --TIAYN (talk) 14:26, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article All-China Women's Federation you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 20px This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MrWooHoo -- MrWooHoo (talk) 02:41, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

The article All-China Women's Federation you nominated as a good article has passed 20px; see Talk:All-China Women's Federation for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MrWooHoo -- MrWooHoo (talk) 01:22, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

All-China Women's Federation has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:18, 24 March 2024 (UTC)