User talk:GCooper316/sandbox/Approaches to Knowledge/2020-21/Seminar group 10/History

Update to the "main" sections
I changed the name of the "main" section "Understanding Society" to "Understanding human Behaviour". It gives more opportunities to develop the section and everyone who wants to add something is welcome. Since I changed the name of the main section, I could add the section about Neuropsychology in it. Furthermore, I created another "main" section called "History of Disciplines: relation between aesthetic and utility" and combined the sections about applied art and design thinking as I could draw a connection between the two disciplines". I was thinking of changing the name to "History of Disciplines: combine the useful with the pleasant" which is a famous quote by Horace but I am not sure if it is appropriate here. I would like to have your opinion. Anarmi632 (discuss • contribs) 08:48, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think this is up to personal preference, and I like the first one better because it fits the tone of the sandbox. But I changed it to "History of Disciplines: combining aesthetic and utility" because it's more grammatically correct (rather than "combine...") Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 14:01, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Formatting the references list
After uploading my entry, I realised that the references all compile into one list on the bottom, so I removed the "References" title off the Managerial Economics entry to make way for one single reference section at the bottom. Hope this is okay with op and for other entries! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 13:59, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Language editing
I was reading over the examples published and I noticed for the sociology one, the section was titled "sociology as a discipline" but focused more on the history of the discipline's emergence, so I just reworded the title to "The emergence of sociology as a discipline". randomOmelette(discuss • contribs) 01:37, 22 October 2020 (HKT)

I also read over the "history of disciplines: applied art" and slightly changed the wording of what was initially "introduction to applied art" to "An Introduction to Applied Art as a discipline". This was because the paragraph seemed to focus more on it as a discipline, and it fit better given the overall title of the entry. randomOmelette(discuss • contribs) 01:38, 22 October 2020 (HKT)

I was reading over the "The History of Design Thinking: A new Discipline merging Anthropology and Design" and slightly changed "As defined by Tim Brown, the executive chair of IDEO, the consultancy often credited with inventing the term," to "As defined by Tim Brown, the executive chair of IDEO where the term originated,". By using a relative clause, I erase commas in order to make the sentence simpler.uhmmmm(discuss • contribs) 15:47, 6 November 2020 (BST)

I also found a grammar mistake in the same section. "Even though innovation is still an important aspect of design thinking, Arnold did not mention another fundamental aim;" In this sentence, I changed semi clone to clone. "when the design consultancy IDEO adapted design thinking as their learnable and teachable mindset" Also, I personally suggest you change "learnable" to another word. uhmmmm(discuss • contribs) 15:47, 6 November 2020 (BST)

I deleted the introduction section for the sociology section as it was unique to this section and we don't need to explain that this is the concept we discussed in the lectures this week, it's enough to jump right into it. I have also made some minor edits and corrected a few typos. Avotoast (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

I've read through the whole sandbox and corrected any misspellings, grammar mistakes or typos as the final touch, since everyone has already finished their edits. --Piscesmoodphase (discuss • contribs) 18:40, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Organization of the sections
I arranged the sections so that we can see more clearly the reasoning for each discipline and I find it easier to edit this way (if we want to add something later). It is my opinion, if someone preferred the way it was before, please let me know, I will put it back as it was.(Anarmi632 (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 21 October 2020 (UTC))

Collaboration idea
I have created a section talking about discipline concerned in understanding society. I have talked about sociology, which is a society which investigate society from a social point of view (social science). I f someone want to talk about another discipline, for example one from the natural sciences or even from the humanities, that is interested in understanding or explaining society, you are welcome to add it to this section. It will be then be a good idea to see if they are bonds between those distincts disciplines. (Anarmi632 (discuss • contribs) 17:03, 21 October 2020 (UTC))

I know this is so late but I would be interested in creating a short paragraph regarding how approaches in viewing society in anthropology have changed over time. (Gingerisadog3025 (discuss • contribs) 12:45, 31 October 2020 (UTC))


 * I don't have my paragraph right now, also this isn't a natural science or humanities discipline per se, but I think it'd be interesting to write a short paragraph about how the visual arts are forms of criticism/reflections of society and how they alter people's perception of society over time. I'll add to it if time allows me to, maybe under a new section called Other Disciplines. (for the anthropology paragraph too) Hope this idea is okay, also @Gingerisadog3025 I don't think it's too late to add to it if you have your paragraph! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 18:24, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Since the section is now changed to "Understanding Human Behaviour", I think I'll leave out the idea that I mentioned above, just letting everyone know! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 08:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

@Gingerisadog3025 It is a good idea! @Gonkponk I am sorry I saw your message too late but I have an idea in how you could implement it: I am going to change the name of section again to "Understanding Human nature". I hope this may help. Anarmi632 (discuss • contribs) 09:09, 8 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the literal last minute message but I didn't have the time to work on this extra contrib and didn't add it in. Just fyi! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 16:59, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

In-text citation edits
Hi all, I was checking through the whole sandbox making edits to a few sandboxes (grammar, spelling, rephrasing etc.) and I realised that some of the in-text citations were done before the period. I changed all of the in-text citations of all entries so that the number is placed outside the period/commas instead of before it.

I am basing this in-text citation formatting style off other Wikipedia articles, and this website: https://wilkes.libguides.com/c.php?g=191948&p=1266506#:~:text=Placement%20of%20the%20citation%20numbers,inside%20of%20colons%20and%20semicolons., whereby it states "Generally reference numbers should be placed outside of periods and commas, inside of colons and semicolons." If I made a mistake with the in-text citation format, please let me know and I'll revert them back! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 18:45, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

hi! Thanks fro clarifying, I always forget whether I'm supposed to insert the citation before or after.--Avotoast (discuss • contribs) 18:10, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, while I was skimming through my paragraph's references, I decided to make it less redundant by compressing some repeated citations (ie. ones that have ibid) into one single reference (I'm not sure what the specific type of reference is called but it has letters in it) so I also did the same with some of the other contributions if that's fine with the rest of you. Gingerisadog3025 (discuss • contribs) 10:31, 3 November 2020 (UTC)


 * That's definitely okay- I think it'll be easier to go through the references this way as well, and perhaps this can be applied to the other sandboxes. Thanks! Gonkponk (discuss • contribs) 07:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion for "The History of Design Thinking"
I think it would be helpful to mention that some universities actually have "design thinking" as a degree! I know you've already established that it is taught in universities, but having a full program for the descipline would further cement design thinking as a descipline. The one I found, after a very brief round of digging, is "Design Thinking (M.A.) at macromedia university of applied sciences". Hope this helps! RandomOmellette (discuss • contribs) 14:34, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion for "The emergence of digital sociology
I think for that section, the title "the emergence of digital sociology as a descipline" makes more sence, because you talk about how it rose in popularity and how this eventually led to the descipline having its first program and being recognised formally as a descipline. Also, I think it would help to mention that multiple universities now, including Edinburgh and Warwick, either offer it as a program or teach it as a course. RandomOmellette (discuss • contribs) 14:34, 9 November 2020 (UTC)