Kimb0209

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Hello, Kimb0209, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

• Hi! I wanted to give you a nice welcome message and a bit of feedback on your sandbox article. I'm concerned that the draft you're writing looks to be more in the style of an academic or reflective essay as opposed to an encyclopedia article. One of the main differences between the two is that while you can include persuasive writing, your own research, and make your own conclusions from source material in an essay, you can't do this with an encyclopedia article. We can only include what authoritative sources have explicitly stated in reliable sources. To add to this, we also have to be writing on a concrete topic - what I mean by this is that we have more freedom to tackle more general topics with an essay, whereas in an encyclopedia article for Wikipedia we would be limited to something that can be included in another article or would be limited to one specific area. For example, we can write an article about fairy tales or German fairy tales for Wikipedia, but we can't write an article about how German fairy tales foresaw or mirrored some of the tragedies of the Holocaust. What you have is interesting to be sure, but you may want to look and see if it can be re-worked to add to a pre-existing article on Wikipedia. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)