User talk:Gaussian venation

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I've created this page and I'm worried I've fallen into Citation Overkill. I tried deleting a few references but it's so hard to kill your darlings. Can someone more experienced help me identify unnecessary and/or misplaced references? Thank you for your time. :)

Theleot (talk) 10:02, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: After reading about WP:RS and WP:EL I think many (if not all) my sources are inappropriate for Wikipedia. Gee, this sure is hard!

Hi Theleot, thank you very much for creating the article; I am positively surprised: Thank you for taking the time to read these guidelines, which may indeed be overwhelming at first. Few people take the time to read them; by having done so, you have already done a huge step for which I'd like to commend you. Please note that you are not required to do so, per WP:IAR, but that it is a very positive idea nevertheless.

I think your article may benefit from peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review. If I understand your request correctly, this seems to be the venue you're currently looking for.

Feel free to use {{help me}} again for any further questions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:31, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some references indeed don't seem all that good to me, e.g. this looks like someone's personal writings, not a reliable source subject to editorial oversight. Other sources like this magazine article look far better to me, though I have doubts about the online version that's linked to - is that the magazine's website, or did someone ot associated with the magazine upload a scan? In the latter case, there are copyright issues, and we probably should not link to the scan but rather cite the print magazine itself; Wikipedia does accept offline sources.

You often cite multiple sources for the same statement. It may help with the CITEKILL issues to only cite the one or two best sources for each statement and to simply remove the redundant references. Huon (talk) 20:55, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

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	You made a really nice addition to COVID-19 pandemic in the United States by adding its impacts to aquaculture/seafood. Great job! Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:24, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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