User talk:BrettLance11

Welcome!

Hello, BrettLance11, 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) 15:15, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Good job on your first assignment!

Professorcravens (talk) 14:56, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Public opinion on gun control in the United States

Hi! I saw that you were editing this as your main assignment - just wanted to give you a head's up about this. Gun control and public opinion on guns (and gun control) is a fairly controversial topic, especially on Wikipedia. What this basically means for us as editors is that we need to be extra careful when it comes to our writing and sourcing - the writing needs to be as neutral as possible and we should be using the best possible sourcing. The writing should also not be persuasive, that is it can't be written to argue a specific point or use the language typically used in this style. Also make sure that you are only summarizing what has been explicitly stated in the source material - we can't include our own theories or research, for example.

I hope this helps! --Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:05, 5 November 2018 (UTC)