Laurie Vazquez

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Hello, Laurie Vazquez, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music

The article Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Appears to be WP:OR.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. reddogsix (talk) 21:07, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. reddogsix (talk) 01:41, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Article deletion

Hi! I'm the content expert for your course and I received a notice that a page you created, Culture Appropriation in Food, Clothing, & Music, was up for deletion. Unfortunately I do have to agree with the nominator that the page does contain original research, which is not appropriate for Wikipedia articles.

What original research means to Wikipedia is that in your writing you drew your own conclusions from your research and asked questions of both the work and the reader. You also referred to yourself in your writing and occasionally showed your feelings on the subject matter. It ultimately read like a research paper and not an encyclopedia article. As a research article it's very well written, however a research paper is an entirely different beast.

While I was reviewing the page I did notice another big problem, namely that the page is somewhat redundant to the pre-existing article on cultural appropriation. I say somewhat, because while the page does have a section on fashion and clothing, it doesn't have ones that focus on overall appropriation of food and music. My recommendation would be to use the material in your article to write two subsections on food and music for the cultural appropriation article. This way your research will still be around, but in a different format. Would this be something that you would be interested in? I know that the Wikipedia portion of the class will end on May 5th. If you're interested, drop me a note on my talk page or reply here with this tag so I'll know to check your page: {{u|Shalor (Wiki Ed)}} Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:37, 3 May 2017 (UTC)