Talk:LeetCode

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learn coding here 41.116.156.155 (talk) 12:24, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

@41.116.156.155 I just want to learn coding 41.116.156.155 (talk) 12:25, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Maxim Lavrenko (article contribs). Peer reviewers: AndrewPpohl.

— Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi User:Maxim_Lavrenko, welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for trying to contribute to the article about LeetCode! Adding a paragraph about contests could be a good idea, but we need coverage of that LeetCode feature in reliable sources to include it in the article. You might consider reading the advice at WP:DUE, which says: "Neutrality requires that mainspace articles and pages fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in those sources." If LeetCode's contests haven't been covered by reliable sources, we shouldn't include them in the article. I'll note that you chose (or were assigned) a particularly tricky article to edit, since LeetCode is a company and product: the standards for information on these pages is usually much higher than on other Wikipedia articles! Fortunately, there are some sources you can use to support the material you added. See the list of sources identified by Cunard at this recent discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leetcode. Let me know if you have any questions! Cheers, Suriname0 (talk) 21:25, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Suriname0. Thanks for your advice. I managed to find a reliable source that mentions LeetCode contests thanks to Cunard. I will be adding it to improve what I wrote. Maxim Lavrenko (talk) 05:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Hey, I added the citation for the first part of the paragraph about contests, and wanted to ask about the second paragraph. Is it possible to cite one of the latest contests, as https://leetcode.com/contest/weekly-contest-366/? The preview contains a lot of important information about how the contests are hosted, and it would be helpful to be able to cite it. Maxim Lavrenko (talk) 05:29, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

This is a great question. The most relevant snippet of Wikipedia policy here is WP:ABOUTSELF, which tells us that we can, very sparingly, use self-published sources like that to verify details in an article. A related concern is due weight: one of the primary ways we determine if a Wikipedia article should contain "important information" is if it has been described in a reliable source, especially a secondary one. I would ask myself: if the detail I want to include hasn't first been described in a reliable secondary source, should it be included in the Wikipedia article? In some cases, the answer will be yes, but very often the answer is no. Please be bold and add the (referenced) information you think is important, and if another editor thinks it is undue they may remove it in the future! This is how Wikipedia articles get improved over time. Suriname0 (talk) 19:06, 10 October 2023 (UTC)