Sydneyhill24

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Hello, Sydneyhill24, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:47, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Rebecca Cox Jackson

Hi Sydneyhill24, I'm a long-time Wikipedia editor and an MA student in English literature at the University of Idaho. I'm also active in the 1000 Women in Religion wikiproject. One of our goals is to increase content about women religious on Wikipedia. I was so excited when I saw that you're working on Rebecca Cox Jackson for your course. Please let me know how I can assist. I'm currently working on my thesis and Jackson is a figure I plan to discuss in it. She was also someone we studied in a very cool course I took last semester about odd literature (lit that doesn't fit into neat categories), especially her book Gifts of Power, and my thesis is an extension of a paper I wrote for it. So please let me know how I can assist and collaborate. Best of luck with your course! Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:09, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi again Sydney, I'm not sure that you're even going to see this, but I hope that you do and I hope that your class experience editing a Wikipedia article was enjoyable and that it has inspired you to continue to edit and contribute. You did a great job expanding this article; like I say above, I felt that since I'm using it as a source in my thesis, it should really be up to snuff, as they say, so I was gratified that you took it on for your course. I'd like to continue your work by tightening up the prose a bit, and by making changes that will make it more like a standard WP bio. When we review articles here, we usually list out all the changes we want the editor to make and why we want them to make those changes. We also often copyedit the article and in our review, list why we made the copyedits. I love that process because it provides me with more feedback about my writing, which makes me a better writer and researcher. I could do that for you, but if you're not going to continue to edit WP, it'd be a waste of my time. If you do return, however, and are interested in my feedback and a more formal review, I'm happy to oblige, as time allows. In the meantime, I'm going to make my changes. Please don't think that it means that you didn't do a good job; one of the other things I love about contributing to WP is that we help each other improve the articles we work on. Again, it makes us all better writers and researchers, which is the point, right? Anyway, best to you and good luck with your continued studies. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:38, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

possible plagiarism warning message

Dear Sydney, I received a "possible plagiarism" report from Wikipedia. I checked on it and there is no plagiarism, because you are (quite legitimately) quoting a scholarly work. So if you get a notification, don't worry about it, it's fine. But there is something you need to change. When you quote someone/something, you put the double quotation marks (" ") around the entire citation. That means that anything INSIDE the citation that the original author had placed in quotation marks switches from double to single quotation marks (' '). So you need to change that. FeliceLifshitz (talk) 14:17, 10 December 2021 (UTC)