Oabrown23

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Hello, Oabrown23, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:03, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Ayanna Kim Thomas

Hi @Oabrown23, My name is Brianda, and I am the Wikipedia Expert for your class. I checked out your contributions and saw that you haven't quite started the project yet (at least on Wikipedia). The first step is to gather reliable sources on your topic to build out your bibliography. If you need any help getting started, please feel free to reach out to me, just remember to ping me. Looping in @9Starbucks. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:30, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Brianda (Wiki Ed). I am in the process of gathering sources for my assigned article to edit the Wikipedia page. To make certain that I understand this correctly, the scholarly articles that I locate do not necessarily have to be about Dr. Thomas but rather her research topic (ex. cognitive psychology). For example, may I use information articles that she contributed to edit the "research" portion of the Wikipedia page?

CC: @9starbucks Oabrown23 (talk) 17:29, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

@Oabrown23 When adding information to Wikipedia, you want to use sources that are reliable (have a reputation for fact checking), secondary and independent of the topic (Thomas). If you are adding information about her research, you want to find what others out there are writing about her research, not what Thomas is writing about her own work. You can cite the source itself if you are listing it as a publication, otherwise it's important to find a source that is independent of the topic. Does this make sense?

Your writing for Wikipedia will summarize what independent, reliable, secondary sources have said about a topic, so that a Wikipedia reader can get an overview of the current thoughts and understanding of that topic. The goal is to provide a neutral, fact based summary of the topic at hand based off the reliable sources you've found. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)