User talk:RobbbieB

This user is a student editor in HUM_2610_Honors/Foreign_Literature_in_Translation_(Spring_2019) .

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Hello, RobbbieB, 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) 19:01, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

Hi, I have some notes for you:

The article should only contain information that is explicitly stated in the source material. Any claims or opinions must be attributed to the person making the claim. Without attribution there runs a strong risk that the material would be seen as original research - that is, conclusions or ties that you came up with that isn't specifically in the source material. For example, this sentence comes across as original research without attribution:

The narrator’s abduction from the jungle is highly reminiscent of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

This leads into a second note - avoid making absolute statements, especially when it comes to book interpretations, as stuff like this can often be subjective to the reader. Themes should definitely be attributed.

Be very cautious with sourcing. Avoid self-published sources like blogs, as most either don't have any editorial or verification processes in action or they aren't very clear or thorough enough for Wikipedia's needs. The only time they should be used is if the source is routinely seen as a reliable source by other reliable sources like academic and scholarly sources. To that end, I'm not really sure that Sabotage is a reliable source. It does seem to have a posted editorial page, but it's not something that would be the strongest possible source akin to a peer-reviewed journal indexed in an academic database.

The publication section is OK, but it would be better to have it in prose format. This isn't a huge biggie, mostly just a style thing.

I think that you have a good base here and most of what this needs is just to be edited to attribute the various claims and maybe more sourcing added. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Missvain (talk) 23:26, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]