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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:38, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Response

Hi! I just wanted to respond to your questions.

For the first, we cannot change font on Wikipedia. We can make some small style changes such as italicizing, bolding, and occasionally making some words larger (this last one is almost never used in articles), but we can't change from one font to another.

With linking sources, here are some instructions on this: here and here. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:57, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I have some notes for your draft, which I've moved to User:QQ1995/sandbox2.

• Make sure that this isn't redundant to the articles on cybercrime and crime prevention, since they both brush on this topic. I think that there is justification in having a standalone article, but we want to make sure that the existing articles don't already state what's in your article.

• This reads more like a "how to", so make sure that you're not telling people how to avoid cybercrime. A little of this is fine, but should be couched in language like "According to..." or "Commonly recommended ways to avoid X type of cybercrime are...". The article should be less of a guide on how to avoid cybercrime and more of a history of cybercrime prevention - ie, when did it start, what were some of the early ways that people prevented cybercrime, how does prevention differ by country or culture, and so on.

• This needs more academic and scholarly sources. Mainstream media and primary sources are OK, but they're typically not the strongest possible sources out there.

• Be very cautious of grammar and spelling. For example, in one section you write "kink" instead of "kind".

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

• Whoops - I had your page on my watchlist and just realized that Elysia (Wiki Ed) is your instructor. I'm going to ping her in case she has any other recommendations. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Shalor (Wiki Ed) Thanks for giving great feedback, Shalor. I definitely agree that to give your article the best shot of making it past review, you need to rephrase it so it's not a how-to guide, as Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. Furthermore, based on the definition of cybercrime (crimes involving computers or the internet), you should reconsider whether phone fraud belongs in an article about cyber-crime prevention. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:27, 7 November 2018 (UTC)