HistoryNerd52

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Hello, HistoryNerd52, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

ANN

Hi! I wanted to reply to you about ANN. In general they're seen as a reliable source for things like reviews, news, and release information. Many of their announcements are just reprinted press releases, so they're unlikely to be altered from from what the companies wrote. When it comes to the encyclopedia and the fan interest pieces, those typically can't be used.

Now as far as citing primary sources (company, works themselves), you can definitely use them to back up basic, concrete information such as release dates, character names, and the like. When it comes to more interpretive stuff, essentially anything that isn't outright stated, we can't use the source material for that - we need a secondary source that makes these claims. Something that I do want to note is that as far as sources go, e-commerce sites like Amazon should typically be avoided. Those are seen as promotional since the main goal of these sites is to sell you something.

I also wanted to point you towards this page, which goes over what sites are seen as reliable and which ones aren't. You may also want to see what you can copy over from the Japanese Wikipedia entry - it's definitely fine to translate the content over as long as you can source the material. It's OK to use machine translations like Google Translation, if you're curious - you just have to write the material in your own words, which is typically necessary since the material will be in broken English.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:52, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

• Also, if you're interested and want to work on a lot of anime and manga articles, here are lists of articles that are of start and stub quality that can be worked on. (Sorry, I'm just excited at the idea of there being another anime and manga fan!) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:54, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Shalor (Wiki Ed), thank you for the suggestion! HistoryNerd52 (talk) 16:43, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
• No problem! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:50, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Bethune

I'm open to suggestions and comments. HistoryNerd52 (talk) 23:57, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

• HistoryNerd52, I'm not quite sure why you didn't spend ten more minutes on this to finish it, move it into mainspace, and move on to the next topic. There's isn't much on SNCOA but there's also no point in just throwing this away. There are very basic descriptions of it in this and this. Even if all you have is two paragraphs, it's still more than nothing. Dr Aaij (talk) 14:27, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
• BTW Joanna Bethune seems like a fine topic. You should get this article, via the library or Interlibrary Loan. (The German article offers very little.) There are extensive biographical (i.e., tertiary) entries here, here, and here. There are 25 articles listed on JSTOR that have "Joanna Bethune" in them, so go look through that as well. In fact, it makes you wonder why she doesn't have an entry yet... Dr Aaij (talk) 14:34, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
• LadyofShalott, what do you think? Any suggestions for the student? Dr Aaij (talk) 16:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
• Dr Aaij Does this look better now? HistoryNerd52 (talk) 16:20, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Hi HistoryNerd52, I'm just starting to look at it, but at first glance, it clearly needs some WP:Wikilinks. LadyofShalott 15:20, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
  • You mention her attending school in "Rotterdam, France". Is this an error, or is it a different Rotterdam than usually meant? LadyofShalott 15:43, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
• LadyofShalott, Yes I think it is possible that I misinterpreted the text. It said she attended "a French school in Rotterdam" so I assumed it was in France, thank you for pointing that out to me. HistoryNerd52 (talk) 16:18, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Yes. Rotterdam is in the Netherlands. Dr Aaij (talk) 16:21, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
  • User:LadyofShalott, I think this can go to the front page, no? You have any suggestions for a hook? HistoryNerd, almost 25,000 people read an article about a skeleton. Dr Aaij (talk) 16:32, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
    • Yes, I think so, after a clarification about location/timing is added. IT talks of her being Canadian and Scottish, but then she is attending and founding organizations in New York. Do we have information on when she came to the US? [Nevermind, I just missed it.] LadyofShalott 17:26, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
      • DYK that a Canadian-Scottish woman improved the plights of New York orphans?
• Well done. A on the article. What about DYK? Dr Aaij (talk) 21:26, 1 August 2019 (UTC)