User talk:Josie Hoffman

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Hello, Josie Hoffman, 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) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Women in mass media

Hi, I was alerted that you had moved your sandbox live and that there were concerns that the new article was redundant to the existing article on the exploitation of women in mass media. I moved your article back to your draftspace, as there are some issues that need to be addressed. Here are my notes:

• The content of the article discusses the exploitation of women in mass media, which is already covered at the aforementioned existing article, which covers it in more depth. There is a general article about women in media that needs work, if you were intending to create a more general article.

• This needs stronger sourcing. The current sourcing has some issues. For example, the HuffPo article is written by one of their contributors, which means that the article did not receive any true editorial oversight, as contributor work is considered to be self-published. The UNICEF source is debatable, however keep in mind that the site may not use the same editorial process that an academic or scholarly journal might. Finally, this source seems to be a student project, given the URL, so this should be considered a self-published source despite it having a college URL. With things like this it's best to use academic and scholarly sources, as they tend to undergo the most rigorous editorial oversight and their authors are typically seen as the authorities on the subject matter.

• If content you move live is contested or removed, it's important to discuss the content removal on the article's talk page or on the editor's talk page. You can also definitely reach out to me on my talk page or via email. It's not a good idea to re-add the content, as this can be seen as edit warring.

I hope that this helps explain what happened! Definitely reach out to me if you have any questions. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:13, 26 March 2019 (UTC)