User talk:Barnetk

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Hello, Barnetk, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:35, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Olindias phosphorica

I see that you have worked through a lot of edits for Olindias phosphorica in your user subpage. I would recommend that prior to publishing your changes

1. you review Help:Citing sources to learn how to properly create inline citations; and
2. you review your article with your WikiEd professor for help with infoboxes, taxoboxes, etc., the kinds of things standard biological Wikipedia articles use commonly.

-- WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 21:28, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Your userspace draft is improving. I'd like to offer you some suggestions:

1. The existing article has a {{Speciesbox}} which is a standard feature of Wikipedia articles about biological species; I recommend you copy that from the article to your draft, and then remove your "Taxonomy" section.
2. Your article includes both a bibliography and a references section. These are redundant. Now that you have properly cited your sources inline, you do not need to retain the bibliography. For those items in your bibliography that you have not cited directly, you can include such material in a "Further reading" section.
3. You have cited a Wikipedia article as one of your references. This is discouraged since Wikipedia, ironically, is not considered a reliable source because of its user-generated content. Instead, if there is a specific fact that you have gleaned from the Hydrozoa article, and that fact is cited, you should cite the source sited in the Hydrozoa article.
4. You have included a "Fun facts" section. We generally avoid such material at Wikipedia. (See WP:TRIVIA.)

I hope these suggestions help you improve your draft. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 11:43, 19 April 2023 (UTC)