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Happy editing! Drmies (talk) 14:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi. Historical guides to controversial issues in America doesn't strike me as a very strong source--and such citations also need page numbers. There was a lot of content, and much of it not clearly cited or not cited at all. The bigger question is why the article needs a policy timeline, and why that timeline doesn't start until the mid-20th century, and deals only with the US. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 14:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

All sentences without a direct citation at the end fall under the resource of the previously marked sentence. This is what we were instructed to do in class to avoid clutter, but I can change this if necessary. As for the sources, I had all of them approved by my professor, as well as the final product, so if that remains an issue I will need to talk to my professor. As for why a timeline is needed, our assignment was to focus on a step in the "social problems process", the step I chose was policy changes. I could not do a comprehensive timeline of the history of many countries because that was outside the scope of my class, and it I believed that some information, even if limited in scope, would be better than none. Schoolproject24 (talk) 14:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Schoolproject24", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it seems to stand for a group of people. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

I am not a group of people. The name is representative of the fact that I have made this account as a final project for a class where the assignment was to research and update a wikipedia page with new information. Schoolproject24 (talk) 14:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

OK--can you tell me who the professor is, and what their account is? Was any training done? I'll place a more appropriate template below. Drmies (talk) 14:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

My professor is Marilyn Krogh, we went through the basic training in class together. Schoolproject24 (talk) 14:21, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks--can you point me to their Wikipedia account? Drmies (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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