User talk:Ieditwords
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[edit]Hello, Ieditwords, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 10:32, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
The article Walk a Mile in Her Shoes has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- promotional with inadequate evidence for notability
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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 03:31, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Ieditwords! I've moved this to your userspace so you can work on improving the article, so you can find this at User:Ieditwords/Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. The two biggest issues was that the page needed more independent reliable sources that could establish notability and it was also written in a promotional tone. The promotional tone might have been unintentional, however this is still something to be careful about when creating articles - a page needs to be neutral in tone and a reader should not be able to tell if you are for or against the topic at hand. As far as sources go, many of the sourcing is WP:PRIMARY, meaning that it was released by someone (a person, organization) that is directly involved with the event. These things can be used to back up basic detail but it cannot be used to establish notability regardless of the claims. You need things like news articles about the event, however they need to be more than just routine notifications of an event or a press release (ie, not just a date and a small blurb). This is something that would be considered a fairly close paraphrasing of a press release at best, so be cautious of articles like that. I would highly recommend looking at academic work like this and this. Books published by reputable academic publishers will undergo a fairly rigorous editing process, so they're definitely a good place to start. I've written a little bit about this here on my other account, so check that out as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:29, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
- Also, be extremely careful when writing your content. It looks like you very closely paraphrased sections from this source when writing the article. Paraphrasing is considered to be a copyright violation and plagiarism on Wikipedia, especially as it gives off the impression that you are trying to pass this work off as your own. Finding ways to repackage content can be difficult, but please be careful. I'd like you to look over the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 2 April 2017 (UTC)