User talk:Aminah Simmons

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Hello, Aminah Simmons, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia 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. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:34, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Yasmin Hurd

Hi! I wanted to leave you a quick note about your article on Yasmin Hurd - Elysia (Wiki Ed) is off today, so I'm keeping an eye on things in her place. I have some notes for you:

• When writing out articles, make sure that you stick to the general setup and layout of how biographical articles are set up. For example, the intro sentence to the article should be like this:

Yasmin Hurd (born in Jamaica) is a professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City."

As opposed to starting with "Originally from Jamaica,". I tweaked this in the article, but left out the Jamaica part since that will need to be sourced to show that she was born there. (Just in case she was born elsewhere but was raised in Jamaica.) Just make sure that this is sourced - any biographical information, regardless of what it is, should be sourced. This brochure goes over editing and setting up biographies on Wikipedia and will have a lot of the overall style guidelines and needs. I also un-bolded the headers since those are traditionally not bolded.

• I removed the title of Dr. from the article. This is a style guidelines thing and not really one that you'd be expected to know offhand. Per this style guideline, Wikipedia will only use an academic or professional title if this is how someone is commonly known, as in the case of Dr. Oz and Dr. Ruth, where they have it as sort of a stage or common name.

• When filling out a bibliography section, only list the basics of what they've written, such as the title of their work, when it was written, where/who published it, and so on - similar to how a citation is written out. It's not really necessary to have a description of each work, especially as the average scholarly professional will have written quite a few works. An example of how the section should generally be written out can be seen at Rosalind_Franklin#Publications. The general rule of thumb is that if the works are frequently cited and discussed, then this work should be covered in a section for her work in that area. Franklin's article can be a good overview of how this can be styled, as can articles like the one on Francis Crick. (It doesn't have to be as big and fleshed out, this is more just an example of how to style this.)

Elysia may have more to write, but I didn't want to bog the page down with an overly long notes section (any more than it currently is, anyway). I hope this helps! Great choice on the article - Hurd definitely deserved a longer article than the stub she originally had! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:46, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Yasmin Hurd

Your additions to the Yasmin Hurd article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons,some of your contribution was deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

copyright and plagiarism

Hi Aminah Simmons I want to impress on you the importance of not adding plagiarized content to Wikipedia. Plagiarism includes:

• Copy-pasting content (even if it's cited)
• Close paraphrasing, or copy-pasting content but changing a word or two here and there (even if it's cited)

Review the training on plagiarism before you make further edits. Please ensure you take more care in the future to avoid plagiarism, as it is against Wikipedia policies. Repeated plagiarism can result in a restriction of your editing privileges or affect your classroom assignment grade. Let me know if you have any questions. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)