Hi everyone, so I created a page for Joanna Coles, since I recognized her name when I went down Wikipedia's list of recommended people who should have their own page but do not. She is a magazine editor, who's the current editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. I want to be a magazine editor someday, and even though I don't read Cosmopolitan myself, I know her as a public figure. She's pretty well known since she was a celebrity judge on Project Runway: All Stars and had cameos on a reality TV show for Marie Claire when she worked there, so I was surprised that she didn't already have her own Wiki page, especially when other prominent women magazine editors do. When I started doing research on her, I was surprised by the amount she's spoken out about feminism. It made me feel that this was even more fitting for our class, as she brings up interesting/perhaps controversial points. This is what her page looked like before I added anything:
Echoing what everyone else said, this assignment was a lot harder than I expected. It was definitely a bit difficult to get familiar with how to edit on Wikipedia (since this was my first time), and then having to find legitimate research and citing properly was pretty tedious. But it definitely feels good to now have the finished product! Here's what I contributed:
The URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kianala/Joanna_Coles (my submission is waiting to be reviewed for approval)
Although your article was declined, I would encourage you not to give up and to go back to see if you can get this notable figure into Wikipedia. I think if you used the traditional Wikipedia headings and subheadings organization described in Wikipedia tutorials you would probably go farther toward getting it included. Personally, I learned a lot about Coles from your source-rich article, which I appreciated as a Project Runway fan.
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