User talk:Kaylawright2019

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Hello, Kaylawright2019, 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) 16:27, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Draft notes

Hi! I have some notes for you on your draft:

• You don't need to indent on Wikipedia - this is something that can actually mess up the formatting, to be honest. Also, the title of the literary collection should be italicized.

• The headers need to be titled more along the lines of how Wikipedia typically titles sections - things that come across as story titles should be avoided. I've changed this in the draft to be more along Wikipedia's style guidelines, along with the indents.

• This needs a lot of editing for tone and style as far as the prose goes. This was almost certainly not your intent, but it comes across as pretty promotional in tone. You want to avoid writing in a casual tone. Words like "understandably" come across as being written from a specific point of view and also presume something of the reader. The writing should be more to the point and factual, as you want to avoid it coming across as subjective.

I'll do a sample re-write of one of the sections to give an example of how the writing should be styled.

• This needs coverage to show where this is a notable literary collection. Keep in mind that it isn't automatically notable because it is associated with a notable university - we need to be able to show where it's independently notable. Things like database listings and content written by people or outlets affiliated with the university can't establish notability, as database listings are considered to be routine and things written by people/outlets affiliated with the university are seen as primary sources.

• You also want to avoid creating original research - in other words, creating our own interpretations, speculation, observations, or drawing connections between sources and the topic when the source doesn't mention the topic. For example, the Forbes link doesn't mention the Swamp Ape Review, so highlighting this as something notable is seen as original research. We can mention offhand that they don't institute submission fees, however it doesn't need its own section unless there is a lot of coverage to justify mentioning it in that much length.

On a related note, the Forbes link isn't usable as a reliable source since it's done as a contributor post. Forbes doesn't provide any true editorial oversight to the blog posts and there have been cases of the Forbes posts containing incorrect information. If it was done by a staff member it would be usable, though.

I hope that this all helps - offhand I'm really concerned that this literary magazine doesn't fit notability guidelines. Most student run publications don't, as they typically don't gain the necessary coverage as most fly under the radar. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Emdons (talk) 16:01, 23 October 2019 (UTC)