Evan sandoval

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Hello, Evan sandoval, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi Evan, your professor wanted me to give you some feedback.

From what I can see, the main thing to be cautious about is that you don't include original research in your content and that you don't write your content like an academic paper. Some of the main differences between a paper and an encyclopedia entry is that while you can draw your own conclusions in a paper, in an encyclopedia you can only include content that has been explicitly stated by a reliable source. For example, you shouldn't say that a particular type of media causes this or that type of effect unless it has been clearly stated somewhere. You also need to make sure that your claims are backed up with reliable sources and you should also try to be succinct while editing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:43, 24 April 2017 (UTC)