User talk:Kingpatron32

This user is a student editor in State_University_of_New_York,_Plattsburgh/Communication_and_Culture_(Spring_2019) .

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Hello, Kingpatron32, 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) 18:17, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Hi! I saw that you were having trouble with the assignment. In a nutshell, what you're going to be doing here is expanding Wikipedia's coverage of topics you discussed in class. It looks like you chose to edit the articles on Gender & History as well as the Gender Parity Index. Offhand you really only need to chose one article to contribute to. What I would recommend doing is focusing on the Gender Parity Index, as this needs expansion. I would particularly recommend that you create a section on the history of the index and how it has been used, as this is something that is important about this index and how it has grown and changed over time to meet various needs. With sourcing, the best place to look would be your school's academic databases, as those will typically have the strongest possible sources.

If you want to edit a different article, that's fine - just make sure that it's something that you can work on. If you want, I can help you come up with ideas. Just let me know on my talk page if you would like help on this end. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:09, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you posted on my talk page. I'm not sure what the question was, unfortunately. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:51, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

May 2019

Your addition to Gender & History has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Not only was that a verbatim copy from a copyrighted page, but it would not have been appropriate even if it were not copyrighted. Did you even look at the article before you added that? The article is about the particular journal Gender & History, not about one particular paper, and one that didn't even appear in that journal as far as I can tell. Meters (talk) 23:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Basketball. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Per WP:BRD you need to discuss this material on the article's talk page. Do not continue to restore it. It appears to be WP:OR Meters (talk) 19:19, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]