Aefrance

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Hello, Aefrance, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:27, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cognitive Diets for Dogs

The article Cognitive Diets for Dogs has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

essay, or at least intended to be one. Violates WP:OR

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 06:33, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Article creation

Hi. I noticed that you created a page "live" in the Wikipedia mainspace. You should be working in your sandbox until your work reaches a fairly well-developed stage. You need to make sure that you go over the checklist on page 15 of the Editing Wikipedia brochure before you move your work out of your sandbox.

As for the topic itself, you need to make sure that you have enough high-quality sources to work from - preferably scholarly works like peer reviewed journal articles and books from academic publishers. You need to make sure that what you're writing is appropriate for Wikipedia - that you're reporting on the topic in a neutral way. Section headers should be descriptive - you should avoid using questions. And everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be supported by reliable sources. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:14, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I didn't realize that's not what we were supposed to do. I find this whole thing very confusing and outside of this, we aren't getting much in-class tutorials on this... For a first time user, Wikipedia is not easy to use. How do we delete it? Aefrance (talk) 15:18, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

Looks good. I would trim your prose a little, removing words like "furthermore" and "particularly" (in "L-Arginine is particularly important..."). Wikipedia favours a spare style. Words like "particularly" add emphasis, but they don't actually convey specific information to the reader. I'd also leave out mention of purely human diseases like Alzheimer's. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead and merge it into that article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:02, 1 December 2017 (UTC)