FliFish
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editHello, FliFish, 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) 19:02, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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editLead Section -The lead section does a great job summarizing the content of the article -In the Rules section, “professional” and “novice” are capitalized, in the Lead section, they are not. Might want to make this formatting consistent.
Rules Section -What are the 7 competition locations? Maybe you can list them in parenthesis?? -“Allowed methods” in the first paragraph is a little vague, can you clarify? -“Certain methods, such as firearms…” > “Certain methods, such as the use of firearms…” (The second phrasing sounds more natural to me, but I may be wrong).
History Section -Maybe talk a bit more about who funds/supports the competition. You mention it in the Lead section, but it could be interesting to expand a bit more on it. -Has there been a positive outcome from the competition (might be hard to find data, but would be cool to include if you can find anything). -Is there a reason why competitions aren’t run in certain years? Like is it based off of the python population in the area? -I like the tabnle a lot! WritingStudent1 (talk) 18:46, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
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editHi FliFish. Thank you for your work on Florida Python Challenge. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
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