User talk:Ashely.dipchan

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Hello, Ashely.dipchan, 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) 15:42, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Valerielopes (talk) 00:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi, here are my notes:

• Avoid using studies as a citation - this made up almost all of your sourcing. This training module goes over the reasons why, but essentially it's for the following reasons:

1. The study is a primary source for any of the claims and research conducted by its authors. Secondary sources that review or otherwise cover the study are needed to help verify the claims and give commentary.
2. Studies only survey a small group of people and are not meant to be representative of all peoples who may fall within that area. ie, what is applicable for say, one group of teenagers in the United States may not be the same for teenagers in Brazil or even teenagers in another state within the US. Secondary sources help give the much needed context. For example, one study only sampled children from five schools in Georgia. This means that any findings they have will only be applicable to those Georgia schoolchildren who fully participated - they won't be otherwise applicable to children in other areas or even to all of the children in the school.
3. A secondary source helps show where this study should be highlighted over other, similar studies.

Since this topic area does brush against the topic area of health and psychology, I definitely want you to review the above training module. As far as knowing whether or not the source is a study, look to see if the title or abstract labels the work as a study. Another way is to look through the source to see if they discuss any studies or research data with terms like "we", since that typically means that they're reporting on their own findings.

This said, you can use literature reviews that are in the studies, as that would be seen as secondary coverage. It's just that anything created by the research team during the course of the study would be seen as primary.

• Sites like Problem Gambling are also not seen as a reliable source since we don't have any way of being able to verify that their research is correct. If they're routinely cited as a reliable source by academic and scholarly sources then it could be usable, but offhand most websites will not be.

• Avoid using point of view terms like "powerful" since those will be subjective to the reader and can also be seen as opinions. This page gives a good overview of words to watch when writing on Wikipedia.

I think that you have some good bones here, but this needs some non-primary sources. Also, don't forget to attribute the claims accordingly to the person making them. I'm sorry that I didn't take a look at the draft sooner, so that you'd have this feedback earlier. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:06, 10 December 2018 (UTC)