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Hi Adsoucy. I see your intention on getting your students to write on Wikipedia. If you or your students need help with understanding how Wikipedia works or some of the writing/formatting techniques, I can help you. May I ask if this is a university course? Vietnamese content on Wikipedia is not very strong and it would be great to hve more contributors. Thanks! YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WP:NRG and WP:MMM are examples of previous academics who have run writing exercises for their students on Wikipedia. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:49, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Yellowmonkey, Thanks for the welcome. I appreciate your guidance. I am a university professor and my research involves Vietnamese religious practice (anthropology). I heard a talk on our public broadcasting station (CBC) about a religious studies professor in Saskatchewan who was getting his students to do this rather than write papers. Since my students inevitably use Wikipedia, it makes sense that I contribute to making it a better source for them and others. I have just introduced this course, so it is a good time to start experimenting like this. Thanks for the links to others who have done this. I will definitely go over them, as well as the instruction pages. I have already started to try to figure it out, but it is a bit confusing at times. For example, I am not sure if I am using the correct form for communication with you ... so I hope you get this and I haven't messed anything up. (Adsoucy (talk) 12:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC))Reply[reply]

No, no, it's all going well. You just have to go to Như Lai, start the page and then put in "#REDIRECT [[Tathāgata]]" and so forth for what you need. Redirects are very liberal so there is basically no problem with spreading them around unless anyone makes a derogatory or libelous one. As for the userpage, it's not necessary, unless you want to do it up informally to begin with in the manner of a sribble pad/jottings in which case the main article isn't to be used like that. Wikipedia is a work in progress so as long as it's neat it's fine to just do it as you go along. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, it's the normal way to just ask me here. The reason I contacted you by email is because it is considered improper to go to a person who is not using their full name onsite and ask them "Is this your name and do you work at this address?" due to privacy reasons. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Thanks for your offer. Yes, it is part of a university course on Religions in Vietnam. You are right that there is a lack of information on Vietnamese religions on the internet, so I give students the option of working on topics that I think need attention. Part of the problem is that there is not that much that has been published on any topics related to Vietnamese religion in English, and so their articles are often critiqued for not having enough sources. The problem is that in most cases they have exhausted all available English sources. I do get them to read all of the instruction material before they get started, but the results are varied. This year there was only one student who created a page on Lieu Hanh, who is an extremely important deity in Vietnam. Granted, the entry needs work, but at least there is something up there now, and hopefully someone will have more time than I to polish it at a later date. Thanks again for your offer of assistance.

Hi, just thought I'd post some links on easy ways to do citations and have them look nice, took me a while to get it myself, figure this'll save you some time and make some of your future articles look a little neater: books, journals, conferences, encyclopedias, news articles, and websites. If you have any questions just leave a message here or on my talk page. NeilHynes (Talk) 05:08, 21 March 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi - I just wanted to introduce myself. I was looking through archives of WikiProject Vietnam and read that you've been encouraging students to develop articles on Religion in Vietnam. Thank you so much for the initiative. I've been actively editing the main Religion in Vietnam article in the hopes of improving its quality, and it's good to know there are others (with far better resources and knowledge than I!) working towards the same goal.

Also of note: I tacked a ((merge)) tag onto the Dao Mau article about a month ago, recommending that the article's text be moved into Religion in Vietnam#Folk religions, mainly because Dao Mau is a short article and I didn't know whether it was being actively developed. However, if you've got students working on the article, please feel free to ignore or remove the tag; we could always use a full, comprehensive article on the topic.

Keep up the good work! --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 04:30, 18 May 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]