Efurtado2

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Debriefing

Hi! I saw that you added a lot of content to the section on best practices. I've reverted this for the time being and wanted to explain why:

• This was written in a very casual tone, as it was more of a "how to guide" than a neutrally written article. A section like this should summarize what has been written about efficiency and what elements tend to make up the best debriefings in reliable sources, but in a way that doesn't tell the reader "do this to have the best results", rather something along the lines of "researchers have noted that X, Y, and Z are common elements of successful debriefings". We also need to avoid subjective terms like "best" or "perfect" unless we're quoting someone who is making a statement. However even with that, in a section like this that should be kept to a minimum.

• Avoid using "we" and "you" - Wikipedia uses the formal third person.

• This needed more sourcing to back up claims, as much of the section was unsourced.

I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:39, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Response

Hi! You asked the following questions:

• Sorry if I may have missed this information, but is there a minimum number of sources that needed to be included?

There's no exact set amount of sources required, however each paragraph should be backed up with an in-line citation that states the claims being added. You can re-use sourcing, of course. Now with common practices, make sure that the sources state that these are common and aren't specific to the person writing the source.

• My changes were not complete since this article edit is for a school project that is not yet due. Instead of publishing changes prematurely, should I draft my changes outside of Wikipedia and then publish the changes when finalized or can I work on the article within Wikipedia?

You should use your sandbox to draft any potential changes - I've signed you up for this specific article (debriefing), so now when you go into Dashboard while logged in you should see a guide on the drafting process that should be helpful. One of the main reasons it's best to draft in your sandbox rather than elsewhere is that you don't have to worry about formatting issues that could come from moving the work from elsewhere - plus I can review the material.

• I intend to rename the subheading to "Common Practices in Debriefing". Can I republish my changes using this title and making changes based on your recommendations above?

That's fine - I would just use "Common practices", however. Since it's going to be a subsection in the main article for debriefing it will be assumed that it's common practices for debriefing. Also, unless we're referring to a person, place, or title, we should only capitalize the first word. (This is one of those things that's somewhat unique to Wikipedia, so no worries about not knowing that part.)

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:32, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Debriefing

Please don't add copyright material copied from other websites to Wikipedia. Everything you contribute needs to be written in your own words please. — Diannaa (talk) 09:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)