User talk:Elaraamador
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[edit]Hello, Elaraamador, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:27, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Draft notes
[edit]Hi, I have some draft notes:
- Keep in mind that we can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in source material. If something doesn't mention Latinx futurism, it can be considered original research to classify a given statement or film as such.
- Also keep in mind that futurism and science fiction are not the same thing. Futurism is based on science and is meant to be something that could theoretically happen. Science fiction as a whole doesn't have this requirement and as such, can feature elements that are scientifically impossible. So for example, Jurassic Park could be seen as a futurist movie since its science is based on cloning techniques and science that exists and could potentially exist. In contrast, Star Trek would fall within the realm of science fiction since light speed travel has been deemed impossible by scientists for a number of reasons, one of which being that ordinary matter would need infinite energy to reach light speed, which is not something obtainable. Another is that the human body would not be able to withstand the strain of light speed travel.
- Speculative fiction is considered to be an umbrella term for multiple genres, one of which is science fiction as a whole. It's not really used nowadays to refer to futurism, so the term Latin-American speculative fiction shouldn't be seen as automatically the same thing as Latinx futurism. In this situation the source would at the very least need to specifically use the term futurism. As such, using these sources to back up claims of Latinx futurism or classifying something as Latinx futurism would be seen as original research.
- There are portions that state that Latinx science fiction is important because X and Y or do the equivalent thereof - this is considered to be both non-neutral and original research since it comes across like we're arguing for the reader to see things in a specific light. With articles we can only summarize the content neutrally and let the reader make up their own minds. Also, if something is notable enough for an article, it will be of obvious importance so it's unnecessary to argue for importance.
This needs to be edited for tone and flow. It would also likely be better to just create an article on Latin-American speculative fiction or Latin-American science fiction in general, since that would be easier to find sourcing for (the more specific the topic, the harder it is to find sourcing) and since there's no article on these general topics, there's definitely a great need for these articles given that they have received a lot of coverage in reliable sources. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)