User talk:Alexb99.ab24091999

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Latvian art

Please don't create a page without any content, such page should be removed. You may use your Sandbox to write your page.Xx236 (talk) 07:57, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Latvian art

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Welcome

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gender novel

Hi! I wanted to kind of give you some notes on your article. I've moved this to your userspace at User:Alexb99.ab24091999/Gender novel since it isn't quite ready to be live just yet.

With writing, make sure that you aren't creating original research, which are claims, conclusions, theories, and so on that you come up with on your own. It's content that isn't explicitly stated in the source material. The reason I'm mentioning this is that the article does read more along the lines of an academic or scholarly essay. As far as essays go it's good, but Wikipedia has a pretty different writing style and it can be hard to get used to this offhand. (It took me a while to get used to it myself.) Make sure that you are only summarizing what's in existing source material on the topic as opposed to synthesizing new material.

An example of original research would be labeling specific books as examples of gender fiction without sourcing that explicitly labels them as such. For example, The Book Thief has a female protagonist and deals with some gender issues, however this by itself wouldn't necessarily make it a gender novel. In other words, while the protagonist's gender may play a role in some of the novel's elements, the book wasn't meant to be seen as a gender novel. To classify a book as a gender novel you'd need either the author stating that it falls within the genre or reliable sources that discuss it in this context.

Also, I'm not really sure what the scope of the article is - it offhand looks to be about gender roles in fiction along the lines of the article on gender in speculative fiction and specifically the female gender in fiction. The term gender novel looks to be a term coined by Canadian trans writer Casey Plett that is specifically used as part of a criticism of how transgender persons are portrayed in literature - that they are portrayed as tropes instead of realistically. (See also this this, and this.)

I do absolutely think that there should be an article about gender in fiction, however it does need to be very carefully approached. My recommendation is that you model it after the article on gender in speculative fiction. Since there isn't a general article about gender in fiction, it may be better to create a general article that includes various genders (cisgender, transgender, agender, etc) and include a major section about how female gendered persons are portrayed in fiction.

I hope that these notes help! I don't want this to come across as harsh, just that it isn't quite ready to be live yet. I also wanted to give you a link to these training modules. They're set up like the ones you have in class and cover the same material overall, but I didn't know if an extra set of trainings would be helpful or not. ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡) 15:31, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Gender Novels

Hello, Alexb99.ab24091999. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Gender Novels".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 09:16, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]