User talk:Dorisss47

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:17, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Sandplay theory

Hi! I saw that you moved your work live. I reviewed it and it looks like the article has some issues that need to be resolved before it can be moved back live. I have the following notes for you:

• Since this deals with therapy, it's important to make sure that you're using the strongest possible sources since it deals with health and medical topics. The sourcing you have is somewhat problematic

1. This is a self-published blog type source. The website claims that their work has received awards, but is vague about what those are. The page itself also solicits contributions from others and the page you've linked to was written by a student. Student work isn't automatically bad or even always unusable, but the issue with student work is that it typically doesn't undergo the type of editorial oversight and verification that is required by Wikipedia, especially for health and psychology topics. We can't guarantee that their processes are vigorous enough and their disclaimer page gives off the strong impression that they're not. It shouldn't be used as a source here.
2. This was written by the person who came up with sandplay theory. That's fine, but keep in mind that this makes it a primary source. It's important to back up primary sources with independent reliable sources, as this will help validate the claims as well as establish notability.
3. This link doesn't pull anything up. I was able to find it via the Wayback Machine, but keep in mind that it's important that you add in as much information about the source as possible so that people can locate the source if the link isn't working. In any case, the source isn't bad since the college is good but it doesn't have any information about who wrote it, so it's not as strong as a source as say, if it were published with the author's name in an academic or scholarly journal.

What you want to find are things like academic and scholarly journals and books, as those will almost always be the strongest possible source. Something like this is good, as is this. Just make sure that you are careful to avoid using studies unless they're accompanied with a secondary source that reviews the work. It's generally better (and easier) to go for literature reviews like this.

• This is written a little casually, so it needs to be edited to more fit Wikipedia's writing style. This can be a bit hard to get used to at first (it was for me!) so I can definitely help you with this if you wish.

• You need to make sure that this can stand on its own separate from play therapy. I'm concerned that the topic of sandplay theory is already fairly well covered in the main article, so you will need to either show where it should have its own article or expand the existing material. To be honest, it may be difficult to establish sandplay as a notable enough subset of play therapy to where it would need a separate article, as the basics look to be similar enough to where a separate article may be redundant. As such what you should look for is the content that isn't identical or largely similar to the main article.

I hope that this all helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:16, 19 July 2019 (UTC)