User talk:Hgozzard

This user is a student editor in University_of_Guelph/Pet_Nutrition_(Fall) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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If your question pertains to the note above this one, it doesn't say that you violated copyright, only that you have failed to specify copyright. That said, there are a few issues:

You need to specify your data source
You need to upload your image to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia. You can select that from the Upload menu where you uploaded this file
Your image is too small - it's only 8 kb, and when you zoom in, the text and lines become blurry. It isn't high enough quality to use on Wikipedia.

The image quality issue should be easy to fix. If you right click on the image in Excel, you should see the option to save it as a picture. That will give you a much higher-quality image. I'm not sure how you actually saved this picture, but the lack of Exif data (and the blurry lines) suggests that you didn't do it this way. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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It looks to me like you have created an article on gestation and lactation in cats. And, to be honest, I think that's a much more useful article topic than gestation and lactation diet. An even better topic would be to create a "Reproduction in cats" article. You'd need to add a little about what comes before gestation, maybe borrowing a little bit from here: Cat#Reproduction

First, a minor (but probably tedious) formatting issue - references go after punctuation, not before. The second issue is the lead section. Wikipedia articles have lead sections, not introductions. Your first sentence should include some form of the article title (whatever you go with) and an attempt to summarise the topic succinctly in a sentence or two. The remainder of the lead should then include all the major points of the article. See pages 7-9 in the Editing Wikipedia brochure.

You can also trim a lot of the information about the various nutrients. The idea behind Wikipedia articles is that they should function as part of a larger whole. This article should include what's relevant about the topic - say, protein - to this topic; it should not include basic information about proteins. If someone wants to know more - say, that

Omega 6 fatty acids are classified by their 18-carbon chain containing two double bonds

- they can click through to the omega-6 fatty acid and read all they want about it. If they don't want to, then they can just get the relevant parts in this article. Of course, this means that you need to links to terms like that the first time they appear in the article. But you could trim a lot of that material from the article. This is actually a plus - Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written in fairly spare prose. Getting to the point quickly is important. Most people never read very far into an article, so get the critical information up front, and add the details after.

Before you move your work to mainspace, go over the checklist on page 15 of the Editing Wikipedia brochure. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I moved the page you created to User:Hgozzard/Lactating and Gestating Cat Diet since you ignored my feedback. This isn't ready for mainspace, not by a long shot. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:17, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]