User talk:Rjaco036

This user is a student editor in Florida_International_University/IDH3035_-_Digital_Fairytale_(Spring_2020) .

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Rjaco036! Thank you for your contributions. I am Oshwah and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hello, Rjaco036, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

I saw that your page was deleted and wanted to explain why:

Firstly, the page was extremely promotional in tone. Even though the intention was clearly good, the article was biased towards the Special Olympics. Even if most, including myself, support the Special Olympics, it's important that the article not come across as being for or against the topic at hand. It's not meant to persuade readers to feel a certain way.

The article essentially duplicated the existing article on the Special Olympics, which already has information about participants and its history. There's no need to duplicate the article, so the main thing to do with this would be to see what the main article needs - or if there are any Special Olympics related articles that need work. You can see Wikipedia's category of Special Olympics related articles here.

This also lacked sourcing, which is an imperative for any article. It's important that there be sourcing to back up all claims, as we can only summarize what others have explicitly stated about the topic.

I hope this all helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]