Allie7717

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Hello, Allie7717, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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) 16:05, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Ibrip99 (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Some tips

Hi, Allie7717! Hope this message finds you well. It seems like you're having trouble with your sandbox draft at User:Allie7717/Diodora cayenensis. Looks like you tried to move it out, and Liz moved it back because it's not quite ready yet.

My suggestion for avoiding further frustration is to do the below in order. If you open another tab or window, follow along, and publish your changes every so often, it should be manageable.

1. Remove the EOL.org source. It's unreliable because it copies the existing D. cayenensis Wikipedia article. It also cites WoRMS database, which you have already done anyway.

2. Make inline citations or move the existing citations inline. If you make it clear which sentences or paragraphs come from which sources, your professor Ibrip99 and TAs will have an easier time checking your work (which can't hurt your grade).

a. To give you an idea of what you're aiming for: you see how in Beddomeia waterhouseae's article, there are the blue numbers at the end of some of the sentences? And if you hover over or tap them, they essentially tag each sentence with the source that information comes from? And within the source, the online ones have the titles hyperlinked?

b. You can review the Citing sources on Wikipedia handout Ian (Wiki Ed) linked in the Welcome! above.

3. After you have done the previous two steps, you can try to transfer your edits to the existing Diodora cayenensis article.

a. Do it one section at a time instead of all at once per the Editing an existing article module

i. That will also make it easier for your professor and TAs to check your work. Reviewing your changes section by section will be easier than trying to untangle a giant edit to the entire page.

You may still encounter some problems (mainly with formatting), but this is already long, so I wanted to stick to the major problems. If you need more help, you can go back to the "Welcome!" message from Ian (Wiki Ed) to decide the best place to ask. Thank you! Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 11:43, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

In addition to following Rotideypoc41352's excellent advice, you should be working on improving the existing Diodora cayenensis article, not creating a duplicate.

If you need a refresher on how to do this, please review this training module or this video. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)