User talk:Briauna123

Hello i am Briauna Harlan. i am a fellow new Wikipedian and i am yet lost. Can anyone help me out on what to do first, where to go, or even a cite to check out. Anything will helpBriauna123 (talk) 21:02, 4 April 2017 (UTC) == Welcome! ==

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The Dream Act

Hello I am Briauna a fellow wikipedian/ editor. I was reading the article on the Dream Act. As I was reading it I seen that it has important requirements based on education, living situations, etc. etc. which requires a lot for the fellow individuals that are not born here in the U.S. I as an U.S citizen feel that their requirements are asking for to much and especially if there only singling out the ones that aren't born here. If those requirements are as important as they state them it should be for EVERYONE not just the ones that are not born here because the they are going to feel as if there not equal as the individuals who are or may be "over qualified".--Briauna123 (talk) 22:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Getting edits right

Briauna!

I am glad that you are coming to Wikipedia to help and that you seek to improve this robust resource. Having said that, I'm afraid that have looked at two of your recent edits, I've had to undo much of what those edits did. I thought that taking a moment to explain just some of the ways that your edits went wrong, it might help your editing be smoother in the future.

• In your edit at DREAM Act], you added a new first sentence to the body of the article, explaining what the word "acronym" means. That's not likely to be the first piece of information that someone wants when they come to read the article; they are far more likely to want to know about the DREAM Act. And if they are tripped up by the word "acronym", you'll see that that word is blue where it appears in the first sentence. That blue means that the word is a link; all the confused reader need do is to click that link, and they'll be taken to an explanation of what acronyms are. In general, you should not be defining words in an article unless they are specifically relevant to what the article is about.
• Your edit at Chris van Uffelen] changed the name of the university where he got his MA from the U of Mainz to the U of Munster, with no sign of a new source indicating you had new information.
• That same edit referred to him as just "Christopher" in a sentence. Wikipedia has a standard that once someone has been mentioned in an article, we refer to people by their last names rather than their first, except in cases where use of the last name may cause confusion (generally because there are two people with the same last name.) See WP:SURNAME for more details on that.
• That edit also introduced grammatical errors and phrasing that was more wordy than useful - "He has many subjects that he focuses on that involves " is an example of that. It doesn't say anything that "He focuses on" wouldn't, the plural word "subjects" does not agree with "involves" which would be for a singular.
• We try to avoid subjective terms. "Many", as used there, is one of them; how many subjects would it take to qualify as "many"? Someone else's opinion might not be the same as yours.

I know this is a lot to throw at you. Given the sort of edits you seem interested in making, I recommend that you try giving a read to Wikipedia's Manual of Style; it should give you a better sense as to what our goals are. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions! --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:56, 7 April 2017 (UTC)