User talk:Michellet82801

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Hello, Michellet82801, 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) 19:31, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Universal healthcare

Hi, I wanted to explain why I'd removed the content from the universal healthcare article. The reason is that this is written as more of a persuasive essay than as part of an encyclopedia article, as the lead sentence for the section specifically says that universal healthcare will not have an impact on the quality of medical care. On Wikipedia we can only summarize what others have explicitly stated in source material and attribute claims to the people who made them, which differs from an essay, where you can draw your own conclusions based on available sourcing.

Now there is an argument to be made for a criticism section that looks at viewpoints from either side, but it should not be done to argue a specific viewpoint. The section would also need to have a wider variety of sourcing, as predominantly relying on one source raises the likelihood that the section would be weighted towards one argument over another. (IE, if the source takes a "pro" viewpoint then they would be more likely to have sourcing that supports their viewpoint and less likely to have strong opposing arguments in their work.)

I hope this helps explain why the content was removed! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:13, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]