User talk:MichaelBroadfoot

This user is a student editor in Mount_Royal_University/ENGL_3353_North_American_Indigenous_Literatures_(Winter_2019) .

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Hello, MichaelBroadfoot, 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) 20:10, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

Hi, I have some draft notes for you:

When referring to an individual on Wikipedia, always use their last name. The exceptions to this would be in cases where you're discussing more than one person, the person is only known under one name (Pocahontas), or they're most well known under their first name (Snoop Dogg). For the first exception, an example would be if you're writing about Jane Smith and the biography section has extensive mention of her father John Smith - to avoid confusion, the mentions of her father would use his first name or refer to him as "her father". I've fixed this in the article for you.

You have a lot of quotes in the draft. It's fine to use some short quotes, but they shouldn't be very lengthy and they also shouldn't make up the majority of a section.

With awards and recognition, this section should list her major awards. The symposium should really only be mentioned if it received coverage in independent and reliable sources. Keep in mind that the symposium was held at her alma mater, so it wouldn't be seen as major an accomplishment as say, if the symposium was held at the Smithsonian Museum of Art.

Be very careful with sourcing. Avoid YouTube links unless it's something that was put out by a major institution or organization. Part of this is because of copyright, as we can't always guarantee that the person who uploaded the video owns the copyright for the video. Other times it's verification, as we can't always guarantee that what they have is accurate. If you can verify that the video is legitimate, I would cite the video as opposed to YouTube. By this I mean that you would use a format like this:

The Little Mermaid. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures, 17 Nov. 1989.

There are some limitations of course, as this type of thing is something that you could generally only use if you have something like a news video or something put out by a verified channel.

This could also use more citations that are independent of Proulx-Turner and any person or organization affiliated with her, such as her alma mater.

The writing is generally fine, but make sure that you stick to a formal writing style. It's easy to slip into a more casual tone without realizing it.

I hope that this helps! By large this is a solid draft but it just needs some fine tuning. --Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:16, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]