User talk:June13145

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Hello, June13145, 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) 19:24, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Empathy article

June13145, I reverted here because of sourcing issues and WP:Tone issues (such as "while it is true that the brain is one of world's greatest mystery"). There are also formatting issues, but those can be fixed. With regard to the sourcing, you shouldn't be linking to a site that requires a student log-in or similar. It is better to link to the source directly or cite the source without such a log-in aspect.

You should also attempt discussing the matter at Talk:Empathy.

Pinging Shalor (Wiki Ed), who can offer more guidance. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Also keep in mind that the "Neuroscientific basis of empathy" section should consist of WP:MEDRS-compliant sources. Read WP:MEDRS for what I mean. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:49, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you, Flyer22! June13145, I would like you to take this training module, which gives a general overview of the sourcing requirements for medicine and psychology related pages. I would also recommend reviewing the Wikipedia page on this as well, since it goes into a little more depth.

With tone, the article should be written as neutrally as possible. Avoid making any sort of personal judgement or claims, as this is seen as non-neutral and subjective to the reader. For example, someone could disagree that the brain is one of the world's greatest mysteries and say that the appendix is a greater mystery or that the brain isn't all that mysterious at all. The only time that things like this can be in the article is if it's being attributed to the authoritative person making the claim. However even then, make sure that the material is written encyclopedically and that it isn't redundant to content already in the article.

As far as sourcing goes, you should include the entire citation - which includes the name of the author(s), when and where it was published, the title, and other things typically in citations. Keep in mind that when you use something through your college's database, the cite source function often won't bring over the information from the link since Wikipedia doesn't have access to the college's databases. In other cases it may not provide all of the information, so it's important to ensure that the citations are as complete as possible.

Let me know if you have any questions. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:07, 5 August 2019 (UTC)