User talk:Mitchellka
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[edit]Nice start on your article draft. As far as I can tell, you added the Causes, Environmental impact, and Regulations sections.
- Causes
- The Causes section needs links to other articles. Any term that the average reader is likely to be unfamiliar with should be linked the first time it appears in the article.
- Don't go into too much depth about coal ash and coal ash slurry. Link to the coal ash article, give your reader a little background, and let them go to that article if they want to learn more
- Make sure that your capitalization is consistent - you refer to the "dan river" instead of the Dan River, and "Environmental Impacts" instead of environmental impacts.
- References go after punctuation, not before.
- Environmental impact
- As with the previous section this needs more links. You also need to spell out all abbreviations the first time you use them. I have no idea what "PSR- Coal Ash" refer to.
- You need to make sure every statement can be connected to a supporting citation. There should be a minimum of one reference per paragraph, and there shouldn’t be any text after the last reference in a paragraph.
- As with the previous section, references go after punctuation.
- Regulation
- This section is entirely unsourced. Everything needs supporting citations.
- Avoid using words like "alleged", since they convey a sense that the claims are dubious. If there's reason to doubt the claims, say so, say who find the claims dubious, and make sure you have a source. Also when you say "An article in the New York Times alleged..." the implication is that this claim was only found in that one article. If so, then you should say "[Named person] said..." or "Writing in the New York Times, [named person] said..."