LilyKa

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:42, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. Nice work on your draft. I have some general comments, and some specific ones.

• You seem to be conflating euthanasia with assisted suicide. Some of your content would fit better in the Assisted suicide in the United States article, instead of Euthanasia in the United States.
• Since you're editing Euthanasia in the United States, you should only focus on the United States. You can always link to other articles to point your readers to non-US content.
• This is true in other places - you should always link topics that have Wikipedia articles. For example, the Hemlock Society or Jack Kevorkian should be linked.
• In the "Early history" section, you start too many paragraphs with "In 1870", or "In 1976". This doesn't make for very good reading. You should try to avoid using this sort of construction over and over. Talk about what happened, don't make it a list of things that happened in this year or that.
• On a similar note, don't start paragraphs with dates like "June 4, 1990- ". Use proper sentences, write prose that people will want to read.
• You aren't using the normal formatting for a Wikipedia article. Bolding should only be used for the article title, and italics should be reserved for things like species names and the titles of creative works. I fixed some of the formatting issues I found in the article, but there are more to fix.
• Please use the Cite tool in the visual editor to produce properly-formatted references. You can do this using DOIs or PubMed IDs. See 'https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/how-to-edit/adding-citations-v2 this slide] for a refresher on how to do this.
• Only the first word of section headers (and any proper nouns) should be capitalized.
• References go after punctuation, not before.

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Euthanasia in the United States and the World

Hello, LilyKa. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Euthanasia in the United States and the World".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Lapablo (talk) 09:04, 17 May 2019 (UTC)