User talk:Caledonia athome/Abigail A. Salyers

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Hi Caledonia athome, here are my thoughts on your sandbox:

• Wikipedia has formatting guidelines for the first sentence. The subject is bolded at first use, for example.
• We generally avoid first person pronouns like "our" (...contributing to our knowledge). Instead you could say "contributing to the understanding of" and it is understood that it is the "human understanding"
• Just part of the Wikipedia style guide, but citations directly follow punctuation, including commas, periods, and semicolons (Sentence.^[1] not Sentence^[1]. or Sentence. ^[1]) I see a couple instances to fix—you can just drag and drop the references to move them where they need to go. Additionally, there are no spaces between subsequent references (Sentence.^[1][2][3] not Sentence.^{[1] [2] [3]})
• In the infobox you have that she had one child, but this isn't said explicitly in the text, only that she became pregnant in high school. Can you add a citation that says she only had one child?

Responding to questions

• I see you have questions about image use. Ryan usually handles images, so you can send him an email at ryan@wikiedu.org. However, since this person is deceased, we can use what's called "fair use" to use one picture of this person and use it exactly one time in one article. Ryan can help walk you through the process.
• Categories aren't added to drafts while they're in sandbox. All articles, once published, should be added to at least two categories, and some have many more categories than that. To add categories:
  • click "edit"
  • then click the button with three horizontal lines on the top editing toolbar
  • click "categories"
  • start adding categories!
    • Common categories for biographies are birth and death years (1918 births; 1971 deaths); occupations/nationality/place of origin (People from New York, American suffragists, People from Providence, Rhode Island); and institutions (Ohio State University alumni; University of Tennessee faculty). My advice for finding categories is to look at similar Wikipedia articles and see what categories they've been added to.
• As for the selected works section, I typically see the inclusion of someone's 3-5 most cited works. That is more neutral and objective than deciding on your own which of someone's works are most important. You can see an example of this with Sabra Klein. To easily have formatting like this, go into edit mode, click "insert" on the top toolbar, choose "template", and then type "cite journal". Because you're doing it this way instead of clicking the "cite" button, it will not be included in the references section. It's fine to provide a short synopsis of each publication.
• The pregnancy information is fine where it is, I believe. Sometimes for biographies, we'll see the inclusion of a "personal life" section that talks about someones marriages/children, but if the information isn't available, then it can't be included.
• For indicating that a cited source is in another language:
  • Go into edit mode
  • Click the in-text citation ([1])
  • Click "edit" in the popup box
  • Scroll to the bottom and click "add more information"
  • type in "language" and add the two-letter language code
  • Again under add more information, type "translated title" and then type what the name of the article/book would be in English
  • click "apply changes" in the popup box

I hope this helps! Everything looks good besides the minor issues I pointed out. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:27, 27 May 2020 (UTC)