User talk:FrEvBrt

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A tag has been placed on Pisgah Legal Services requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Hello, FrEvBrt, 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) 21:02, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

Hi! I saw that Equivamp marked the article on Queerness and rurality as being essay-like, so I thought that I would look over your work and give you some feedback.

The first thing that stood out was the lead. The lead serves as both an introduction to and summary of the article, however it differs greatly from the introductions that you see in papers and articles so it needs to be very to the point. Here's an example of how the first few sentences could be styled:

The relationship between queerness and rurality can vary depending on time, location, and culture. According to So-and-so, in popular depictions, rurality is often portrayed as an inherently incompatible, or even hostile, environment for individuals who are not heterosexual and/or cisgendered.

One of the reasons that it's important that the lead is styled a certain way is that it sets the tone for the article as a whole - if the style seems more like the introduction of a journal article then this can make other parts of the article feel like this as well or more greatly emphasize this issue. Getting used to writing in Wikipedia's style as opposed to the essay/journal article style that most of us have used all of our lives is something that takes just about every editor a while to get used to on here.

With the section "Rural/urban dichotomy and visibility politics in the United States", I noticed that parts of it are unsourced - all claims need to be backed up with an independent, reliable source. They should also be attributed to the person or organization that stated them, as otherwise they can run the risk of coming across as original thought or research. This is something that can be relatively easily solved by taking the sentence "Within this political framework, publicly claiming a minority sexual orientation is inherently political." and changing it to "In her 2009 book Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, Mary Gray stated that within the political framework of the post-Stonewall era, publicly claiming a minority sexual orientation is seen as inherently political." The reason that it's so important to attribute is that some may challenge the statement and argue something different. This is something that can often happen with any controversial topic, so it's especially important to attribute in these situations.

I hope that this helps! Equivamp may come and give some feedback as well, so I thought that this would be a good start as far as feedback goes. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:04, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]