User talk:Jpagu
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[edit]Hello, Jpagu, 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) 16:54, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Notes
[edit]Hi! Here are the notes I mentioned via email:
- This needs editing for tone. It's written in a very casual tone, which goes against Wikipedia's style, formal third person. You want to avoid using terms like "you" "our" and similar the article as well.
- Avoid any subjective writing or original research. We can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in the source material. So for example, we can't use a link to a painting to source an interpretation of what the artwork is meant to mean. It's especially important to avoid us making our own interpretations of artwork. We can do basic descriptions of what is in an artwork, assuming that it's not something that is a bit open to interpretation as to what something is meant to resemble.
- Traditionally Wikipedia articles don't list when a person is interviewed or highlighted in an article unless it's something particularly noteworthy, like being on a list of top people in X or similar. It's also typically not put in an honors or awards section. I'm going to remove this section.
- Interviews are seen as primary sources, so they can't establish notability. It's not always something I agree with, but it's held as the general guideline on Wikipedia by most editors. We can use it for some basic details, but not notability purposes.
- I've removed the mention of the private collections. This is typically not of interest to Wikipedia unless it's something that's extensively mentioned in independent and reliable sources. There's also a bit of an issue about privacy, as this is something that is not really hugely out there in the public eye per se.
- This looks like it lacks sourcing in general. I wasn't sure if the publications section were things that were written by Hyde or about him. If they're written about him then they should be used as sources in the article and be made into in-line citations, as the publications section should really only be a list of things that the artist has written.
I've done a little bit of cleanup, but this still needs some work. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:54, 24 February 2020 (UTC)