On 10/30/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/07, Utkarshraj Atmaram utcursch@gmail.com wrote:
Can anybody provide me with links to these discussions and (deleted) pages? I tried searching, but all I could find was Martha Groom's userpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mjgroom.
I can see something like this working if the area is carefully selected. There's little low-hanging fruit left, as we've noted here before - but any WikiProject will have endless lists of red links just waiting for someone to do the legwork to research and write an article. Someone with university-level research facilities should be able to do a much better job than from a mere Googling, in not much more time.
Just got links to two articles, via "Students Find That Wikipedians Are Tougher Graders Than Their Professor"http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2497. The articles were created in December 2006.
Deforestation during the Roman period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Co...
Both the articles are quite good.
Look at the first version of the article "Deforestation during the Roman period" (user's only mainspace edit) -- great work for a first edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deforestation_during_the_Roman_per...