User talk:Msalceda1

This user is a student editor in University_of_Notre_Dame/Multimedia_Writing_and_Rhetoric_(Fall_2024) .

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Hello, Msalceda1, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:09, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Canal

Hello Msalceda1. It's good to see the next generation of editors gaining experience on WP; I hope that you enjoying building up your Panama Canal material at User:Msalceda1/Panama Canal. I noticed that you now added much of this to the main article Panama Canal#Environmental and ecological consequences - it caught my eye as it lacks the references (and maybe you were intending to write more about the drought). This is a fairly well-watched article, and I would not be surprised if other editors tagged or even deleted those paragraphs as uncited. I am sure that if you need help with that, Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk · contribs) will be able to help. Best wishes - Davidships (talk) 01:35, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Davidships for that kind message.

@Msalceda1, I took a look at the contribution and saw essaylike writing, incomplete sentences, and no sourcing. I decided to revert the edit. @Msalceda1, I think you can easily address the concerns I mentioned in your sandbox and once ready, copy over with sources. I'll follow up in a little bit with more in depth feedback. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:00, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Msalceda1, Writing Style: Currently, your contribution reads a bit too much like a persuasive essay, which is fine for other assignments in your course but not for Wikipedia. You have to keep in mind, Wikipedia is not a place to publish your ideas or conclusions about a topic. That’s considered “original research,” and is not allowed on Wikipedia.

This means your writing for Wikipedia will summarize what independent, reliable, secondary sources have said about a topic, so that a Wikipedia reader can get an overview of the current thoughts and understanding of that topic, in this case the environmental and ecological consequences of the Panama canal. Remember, the goal is to provide a neutral, fact based summary of the topic at hand based on the reliable sources you've found. It is not to persuade the readers on how terrible the panama canal is for the environment. You present the facts, and let them speak for themselves.

Inline citations: A place to start, is to go over your draft and make sure that a reliable source can support and back up each sentence that you have in the sandbox. If any reader wants to check if a sentence has accurate information, they can click on the inline citation and find that information in the cited source. And if there are opinions that you feel are important to mention, it's bet to be clear and attribute that opinion to the source in the sentence.

I also recommend reading over pgs. 7-9 of Editing Wikipedia before you rewrite to check out some examples of what is appropriate prose for Wikipedia. This page, Words to watch, is also a helpful tool.

Let me know if you have any questions about what I wrote. I'd be happy to check out your sandbox draft, when you feel it's ready. Looping in @Prof Whitney. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:58, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidshipsand @Brianda (Wiki Ed)Thanks so much for your feedback!

@Msalceda1, you have some great guidance for how to revise and get your edits to stick next time. You can start working through these revisions now. Prof Whitney (talk) 19:16, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidshipsand @Brianda (Wiki Ed) Thank you guys for the feedback it is greatly appreciated as it helps me better my Wikipedia article skills. I will take in your advice and fix my article in my sandbox :) Msalceda1 (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]