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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I have some notes for you on the wakeboarding article.

• Avoid writing in the first person (ie, you, we, I), as Wikipedia should be writing in the third person (they, the person).

• This feels too much like a guide on how to wakeboard as opposed to an article on the topic of wakeboarding. The article needs to be set up more like the article on surfing.

• Avoid writing in a subjective matter. By this I mean that the article should not have anything that seems like a personal opinion, such as stating that one specific brand's type of board is good for this or that type of rider. The issue with this is that someone may disagree with this and say that another type of board is better, as there are likely many different brands out there that make boards for all types of people, such as beginners. To highlight one brand over another you would need quite a lot of coverage to justify this - it's far better to be more general and list the basic equipment without going into depth about any one specific brand.

• Be careful of sourcing, as not all sourcing is considered to be reliable on Wikipedia. The source needs to have good editorial oversight and an equally good verification process. If it's self-published you'll need to show where the source is routinely seen as a reliable source by other reliable sources, especially academic and scholarly ones.

This needs a lot of additional work to make it better fit Wikipedia's style and format guidelines. I know that you've done a lot of work and you've got a good start here, it just needs to be re-written some. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:18, 31 July 2019 (UTC)