User talk:Brogandice
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[edit]Hello, Brogandice, 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) 18:08, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Africa Award | |
| That was a hefty amount of text you inserted to Malawi. It was very interesting to read and is very well sourced. Best of luck with your studies. puggo (talk) 19:18, 19 April 2020 (UTC) |
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[edit]Hi - I have some notes on your work:
- This is written in somewhat of an essay, reflective tone. Make sure that the content is more to the point and doesn't get too introspective.
- Any major claims must be backed up by a reliable source that states the claim. If it isn't explicitly stated, then we cannot have the claim in the article. For example, the claim "With each coming year the status of women in Malawi continues to flux towards and away from gender equality." is problematic for several reasons. It's unsourced and a major claim. It's also somewhat casual in tone and could be seen as original research since it's unsourced.
- Avoid using any point of view or subjective statements. These are opinion statements like 'effective', 'interesting', and so on. There aren't many in this, but they are there - you also want to avoid using terms like 'however'. Terms like 'despite' are tricky, since this could be seen as us making an argument unless it's in the source material. With these it's sometimes better to attribute them to the person(s) making them.
- I'm concerned that this has original research. Keep in mind that we can only summarize what reliable sources have explicitly stated on the topic. As such, if the sourcing doesn't have the exact claim being stated in the article, we can't include the claim - even if it seems like it would be implied. So for example, if all we have is raw data we can't pull the data together to create a new conclusion.
I hope that this helps - I've removed this for the time being so this can be worked on. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:36, 20 April 2020 (UTC)