User talk:Mariana Altauil

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Hello, Mariana Altauil, 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)

Draft notes

Hi! I have some notes for your draft:

• It looks like you're working on creating a new section and re-working the lead. Keep in mind that leads should be a general summary of the article's contents.

• I saw that you shortened the lead to just "gestalt". When it comes to topics and terms keep in mind that we should use the most commonly used name/term of the topic. I'm mostly saying this since the term seems to jump around a lot in the main article.

• Some of the sourcing is coming up as just " "LINCCWeb Catalog Search". www.linccweb.org.". Make sure that you're getting the full citation in there, as otherwise people may not be able to find the specified source. I was able to fix some of these since it had the URL for the source as part of a longer site link, but there were two that I wasn't able to get to.

• With sourcing, if something is citing most or all of the paragraph, you can definitely put the citation at the end of the paragraph. It's only if it's sourcing one specific part or something controversial that you have to put it in the middle of the sentence.

• With the section, this comes across more of a reflective essay. You want to avoid asking questions of the reader, as the section should only summarize existing sourcing.

You should also attribute any claims to the persons making the claim so that it doesn't come across as original research.

I hope that this helps! Let me know if you have any questions. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:16, 22 July 2019 (UTC)