User talk:Alexisarnett

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Hello, Alexisarnett, 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) 20:05, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Editing articles on academic journals

Hi, I saw that you had selected some articles on academic journals for your class assignment. Expanding these articles is not very difficult. Please see our journal article writing guide for some tips on what to include (and, almost as important, on what not to include). Some resources are on my user page, including pre-formatted references. Don't hesitate to post on my talk page if you need assistance. Happy editing! --Randykitty (talk) 15:52, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you Randykitty! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:12, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Seeing edits

Hi! I wanted to reply on your talk page so it's easier for you to see. The easiest way to see your own edits would be to go to this page on your Dashboard, the articles page. There you would look for whatever article you want to review and then click the little box with lines in it. This will be to the right of the page title, under the assessment tools column. Clicking on this will bring up the page and if your edits are still on the page, show your edits. I will caution, however, that if you aren't signed in when you edit Dashboard won't be able to do this. Also, Dashboard updates on a cycle, so it may be a couple of hours before the edits show up on the page.

I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sociology and Feminism

A tag has been placed on Sociology and Feminism requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This article was created from a direct copy/paste of Feminist sociology material added since was a copyvio of Encyclopedia Britannica

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Orville1974 (talk) 16:29, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Copyright/plagiarism

Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that closely paraphrased or took material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. --Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

• On a side note, I have the following notes:

• You can use content from Wikipedia in another article, however you must attribute this in the edit summary somewhere.
• Avoid sourcing like ThoughtCo since they aren't really great about factchecking and verifying their work. Their focus is on entertainment rather than accuracy, as they are more interested in getting readers and clicks. This means that if they can fudge details and play things up for entertainment, they will. I don't necessarily think that they'd deliberately lie, but they're not the best possible source.

I hope that this helps. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:09, 28 May 2019 (UTC)