Jiselle04

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 02:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hey, just saw your edit to gender-critical feminism. That article is one of the most contentious articles currently on Wikipedia, changes to content within it are almost always subject to heavy discussion, and even afterwards are not guaranteed to be accepted. You may wish to ask your instructor, ACHorwitz, to assign you or let you pick another article, as it will likely and sadly not be a friendly experience for a new editor like yourself. Sideswipe9th (talk) 02:19, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Sideswipe9th for explaining the editing environment of this article.

@Jiselle04, Your current contribution needs rewriting to follow the encyclopedic style of Wikipedia. I have some feedback for you below. I suggest working on your contribution in your sandbox page, and strongly recommend you keep the contribution in the sandbox space where it can still be graded by your instructor, @ACHorwitz

Writing style: Currently, the text reads completely like a persuasive essay, which is fine for other assignments in your course but not for Wikipedia. You have to keep in mind, Wikipedia is not a place to publish your ideas or conclusions about a topic. That’s considered “original research,” and is not allowed on Wikipedia. This means your writing for Wikipedia will summarize what independent, reliable, secondary sources have said about a topic, so that a Wikipedia reader can get an overview of the current thoughts and understanding of that topic. Remember, the goal is to provide a neutral, fact based summary of the topic at hand based off the reliable sources you've found. I recommend reading over pgs. 7-9 of Editing Wikipedia as you rewrite to check out some examples of what is appropriate prose for Wikipedia.

Inline citations: A place to start, is to go over the content and make sure that a reliable source can support or back up each sentence that you have in the sandbox. If any reader wants to check if a sentence has accurate information, they can click on the inline citation and find that information in the cited source. This will help you see what text can remain and what text is original research(your own thoughts/opinions), and can then be removed.

Please let me know if you have any questions about what’s been said so far. Here to help. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks to both @Sideswipe9th and @Brianda (Wiki Ed)--I've gone ahead and emailed the student outside of Wikipedia as well, to let her know to check these messages. Since this project is due in a few days, I am going to let her stick with this topic (they also write a reflection on the experience, so even if her changes aren't accepted, it will be part of the overall experience) and will delete it as an option in the future. Again, thanks to you both! ACHorwitz (talk) 16:44, 19 March 2024 (UTC)