Kshen7

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:02, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I wanted to put my notes on Wikipedia so they'd be a little easier to keep track of:

• The draft needs to be reviewed to catch grammatical and spelling errors. You used who's instead of whose, for example.

• Make sure that any changes you made to the article strengthen it, as you'll need to be able to justify the changes if someone asks. This isn't super duper common, but it can happen.

• Make sure that any sources you use are reliable. For example, you use The Expert Institute several times, however a look at the website shows that the site allows people to hire expert witnesses for court. In order to use this you'll have to show where this site is routinely cited as an authoritative source by other authoritative sources, especially scholarly and academic sources. Be careful, because while the site does have something that says that it's considered the best expert witness provider, that doesn't mean that the site itself is seen as a reliable source. To be honest, I'd try to find a stronger source than this. It's not that you can't use web sources, it's just that the majority of web sources will either not be usable or will be greatly weaker than journal or book sources since many websites don't have a good, verifiable editorial oversight or as strong as the one that the journals or books typically do.

• With the section comparing the UK and US, make sure that this information isn't already covered in another section or couldn't be merged into those sections.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 15 November 2018 (UTC)