User talk:Yoselin C.

This user is a student editor in Northeastern_Illinois_University/Introduction_to_LGBTQ_Studies_(Fall_2017) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I hope even after the class is over that you decide to remain as a Wikipedia editor; it can be lots of fun, as well as educational. Mathglot (talk) 08:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Transgender youth

Hi Yoselin C,

I noticed your recent edits to Transgender youth, which I unfortunately had to revert because that was far too big of a change even for an experienced editor, let alone someone who is brand new.

But please don't feel bad, I think you have some good ideas there, that you could work on to incorporate into the article, bit by bit. Please understand that the article goes all the way back to 2006 and has had 185 editors working on it since then to bring it to where it is now. That doesn't mean it can't be improved, far from it, but it does mean you should be respectful about your changes, especially as a new editor, and go about it in baby steps. In addition, each change should be an improvement to the article in some way, otherwise, someone might revert it. And it looks like you have already learned about using citations, so that's good!—keep that up.

So, instead of one, great, big, edit of 4,300 bytes in over 20 different chunks all over the article, may I suggest that you choose one section at a time to edit, and confine your changes to just that one section, and carefully explain your changes in the edit summary and hit Save. (A section is a chunk of text headed by a bold title, and an [Edit] hyperlink.) Then, go on to the next section, and so on, building up your changes over time in perhaps 20 different edits, plus or minus, each with its own edit summary. (No need to do all 20, depending on what your coursework requirements are; just do what you need to.)

You should also consider outlining what changes you are proposing to make, before you make them, by first going to the article Talk page at Talk:Transgender youth. That's a good start, because it allows other editors to help out, monitor what's going on, and offer any comments as necessary.

One area that I noticed you working on, was improving references by fleshing out the {{cite}} templates; for example, in the #Health risks section, for the socialworktoday reference. That's something that definitely would be an improvement to the article. That change you made to the reference, which is a good one, got removed in the revert, but you can put it back in again, this time sticking to pretty much just improving the references in the #Health risks section, adding an appropriate Summary, and then (if you choose to), going on to the next change. Does that make sense? At the same time, the term "health risks" in the article should not have an external hyperlink, it should just be in plaintext, followed by the {{cite web}} reference.

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Once again, welcome, and hope you enjoy working on the article for your class, or even afterwards. Mathglot (talk) 09:37, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. You can also get help on any topic from experts, by creating a new section below and asking your question, and then typing {{HelpMe}} somewhere in the section. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 09:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]