Kaseybrabant

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Hello, Kaseybrabant, 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) 15:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Draft notes

Hi! I wanted to give you a couple of notes on your draft.

• Make sure that you are using reliable sources to back up the claims in the article - we can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in the source.

• Thefamouspeople isn't considered to be a reliable source on Wikipedia because it isn't transparent about where it pulls its information from and in some instances, has posted incorrect information and rumors. It shouldn't be used in the article.

I'll look and see if I can find anything that can help and will post it here if I find anything. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:22, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

• Here are some sources I found:

[1] This Stanford bio is primary, but it can be used to back up basic information. Notability isn't an issue here, so you just need reliable sources to help source claims. This would be considered reliable.

[2] This was released by the National Academy of Sciences, which is one of the most prominent and prestigious academic societies out there, so pretty much anything they put out will be reliable.

[3] This was published in Resonance and should be reliable.

[4] [5] These two are put out by the American Chemical Society. They're about awards they offer that are named after Flory, so could be good for a legacy section.

[6] Bio made available via Springer, so it should be reliable.

[7] These are Flory's own papers. They're primary, but the synopsis put out by the Science History Institute would be seen as a secondary one. You may not be able to use this, but it could be handy to have in general.

[8] LA Times piece about his death.

[9] This is a bio put out by the Dictionary of Scientific Biography

[10] NYT article about his death

[11] Academic journal article about Flory

These should definitely be helpful. I also recommend that you look through your library's academic databases and shelves, as that will be where you'll find some of the strongest sources and you can find additional sources you may need. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:39, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

An extended welcome

Hi Kaseybrabant. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 16:01, 3 July 2019 (UTC)