User talk:Lldavis

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Carnegie_Mellon_University/Emerging_Energy_Policies_(Fall_2017).
Student assignments should always be carried out using a course page set up by the instructor. It is usually best to develop assignments in your sandbox. After evaluation, the additions may go on to become a Wikipedia article or be published in an existing article.

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The main problem with your images is that you saved them as PDFs. PDFs don't embed well in articles. In the case of the "How it works" flowchart, you should be able to save it as an SVG. It's also important that you include your information source, and make sure that your flowchart doesn't reproduce the source too closely in layout or design. The table you should simply create on Wikipedia. Using the Visual Editor you can create a table using the "Insert" dropdown menu, and then selecting "Table". Again, make sure you include your source.

With respect to the lead section, you should probably leave that until after you have finished expanding the rest of the article. The lead section, after all, is supposed to be a summary of the main points of the article, and shouldn't contain any information that isn't already present in the article lead. Check out the Editing Wikipedia brochure that I have linked here, especially page 7, which gives more suggestions about layout, and page 13 for hints about merging your contributions with the existing article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:10, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would be very helpful if you could change that. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Lldavis, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:33, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]