User talk:Dredrun43!
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[edit]Hello, Dredrun43!, 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) 21:20, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Your draft
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I moved your draft back to your sandbox. It's a nice start, but it isn't quite ready to go live yet. There are a few things you need to fix before moving it back.
- You need to add a lead section that summarizes all the major points of the article. Pages 7-9 in the Editing Wikipedia brochure (that I've linked here) have more information on how to craft a lead.
- You have no inline citations, which makes it difficult for readers to verify factual statements in your article. Every statement should be followed by a supporting citation; if a group of sentences are all supported by the same source, you can place a single reference after all of them, but you need to have at least one reference per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any statements after the final reference in a paragraph. If you need a refresher on how to add citations, please consult this training module.