User talk:Rcragun

Hi Rcragun, I'm a doctoral student at Indiana University. I'm currently working on a Wikibook study about online authors' experiences and perceptions with my advisor. I read your wikibook of introduction to sociology. It's very impressive. We would like to learn more from your and Deborahcragun's experiences. If you would like to participate in the case study, please contact me by email (cl17@indiana.edu) or leave a message. We'll discuss the detailed information about the study. (The format will be a one hour interview in person or by phone or email.) Thanks for your time and consideration. Your input will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, inkeys
 * responded via email --Rcragun (talk) 15:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

-- Hi there, my name is Martin M. Elissetche. I am the creator of a social science dictionary located at www.socialsciencedictionry.org. I wanted to know if I could place a copy of your book on my web site or whether you prefer if I just link to it. Please let me know what you think at info@socialsciencedictionary.org. Cheers, m.
 * responded via email --Rcragun (talk) 15:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I am Piotr Konieczny - PhD candidate from University of Pittsburgh and a long time Wikipedia editor. I will be teaching an Intro to Soc course this summer, and I plan to contribute to our wikicourse; for starters by updating the Introduction to Sociology/Sociological Videos page with some online videos. My @ is piokon at post dot pl. PS. You may want to activate your email.--Piotrus (talk) 14:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Rcragun, If you are still using SPSS, can you please email me asap? Thank you, gherson @ snet-dot-net Gherson (discuss • contribs) 23:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I read your article
Hi Ryan,

I've been a wikibookian since 2006 when my colleagues and I began developing our first book and then our current book. Now, I'm starting to write my dissertation, and my lit search led me to your article in Elec. Journal of Sociology about your Intro to Sociology book.

First, congrats on taking the initiative to get this project started. I agree with you that, while we're in troubled waters, it's worth the associated risks. Our students love it, too.

Second, I wanted to ask you if you'd considered the further empirical study of students working on your book. My team at Old Dominion University is very interested in forming partnerships in disciplines besides our own, and yours seems like a really interesting context. Let me know if you're interested in talking more about this when you have the chance, and have a great day!

PbakerODU (talk) 18:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the book - Introduction To Sociology
Just finished reading the PDF version. It's well written and very informative. The download PDF version seems more neutral than the current edits. The recent edits seem to lean more towards a "leftist" view which is fine but I like my "Introductions" to any subject to be neutral since further advanced study will generally allow me to choose the viewpoint I wish to explore.

I think Wikibooks is a great idea and hopefully editors like yourself will keep adding more titles.

Thanks for the book. --Sluffs (talk) 22:58, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Sluffs. Glad you liked it.  I'm still working on incorporating the new edits.  Hopefully I'll be able make them a bit more neutral.  --Rcragun (talk) 23:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Using SPSS and PASW RfD
You can upload the images locally if they fall under fair use. I've replied to your RfD. --Panic (talk) 23:26, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


 * See WB:RFP. Any images you upload must have Information and Non-free media rationale placed on the image page or they will be deleted.  See WB:FILES if needed. -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:19, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Will do.--Rcragun (talk) 11:46, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Yay! I'm glad you asked for the Uploader priv, I'm glad you got it, and I'm glad you stuck around.  Thanks for the good work! --Jomegat (talk) 03:18, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know about it as an option.--Rcragun (talk) 11:46, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Amplification of Using SPSS and PASW
Hi there and thanks for a great wikibook.

I would be keen to use the wikibook in our SPSS training program but to fit our needs it would take some amplification. I wrote one page as an example of what I mean. You can find it here. In this example I found I wanted to add some basic notes on statistical terms and to give some further advice about recoding in SPSS - looking at it, I will split this page now and deal with those separately, but that's another issue. Your work is fairly focussed on the software, so it might not suit your purpose to have statistical notes in there. You might not feel that added material is helpful either! At the moment the book has a good number of pages and probably shouldn't get much longer.

What I am wondering is where and whether to fit my amplifications in wikibooks. Your book is marked as considered complete and I don't particularly want to step on the authors' toes - you've all done a great job. However, the obvious move for me would be to just insert my pages in appropriate sequence in your book. For some topics, I could perhaps add them as appendices but probably not for all.

Do you have a view?Jimbotyson (discuss • contribs) 13:28, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Jimbotyson. Adding the pages to the book is not a problem at all.  In fact, I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can.  I did mark the book as complete as it covered all of the material I needed it to for my statistics class (I have my students buy a hard copy of a stats text and then use the wikibook for SPSS).  I'd love to see a fully developed statistics text on wikibooks that I could use instead.  So, let me know how I can help and feel free to add whatever content you'd like.--Rcragun (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 25 July 2011 (UTC)