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I'm not sure what you mean by some things are not encyclopedic can you provide me with an example? Or is it just don't write about feelings as opposed to facts?

Also does this include the ideology that some facts can be heavily biased with an Euro-centric lens?

Thank you for the welcome, I plan on staying.

X-pert Dreamer (talk) 00:25, 6 February 2015 (UTC)X-pert Dreamer

Sorry about that. This welcome was actually an automated form, and it's a little more rude then it should be. I don't think I'd actually used this one before, and it's more confusing then most of them. Anyway, to answer your questions (more personally this time):

• Wikipedia does have systemic bias, and most good editors know it, but addressing it is an ongoing battle. Wikipedia:Systemic bias is a good essay about that.
• The bit about being encyclopedic/not encyclopedic is about things which aren't notable. This is usually pretty common-sense stuff, but Wikipedia:Notability is the policy guideline describing exactly what that means.
• Articles are supposed reflect what is supported by reliable sources in a neutral way. Writing about feelings is fine, as long as we make it clear whose feelings we're writing about, and we're not saying that one set of feelings is correct, or more valid than another, even if it might be obvious or self-evident. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:No original research are policy guidelines which explain that more.
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources is also very useful for new editors.

I hope that's a little more helpful. If you have any more questions, let me know. Thanks, and again, welcome! Grayfell (talk) 03:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Queerness in Hip-Hop culture

I've narrowed down my focus to various sexuality acceptance within the Hip Hop Community, by talking about artists

This will differentiate from LGBT hip hop because it will be inclusive to non-binary and pansexual artists and explaining Queerness in terms of how it relates to Hip Hop Culture

Major Queer Rappers right now

and showing communities of acceptance

Using the draftspace

Hey, I wanted to kind of give you a bit of an explanation as to why the article was deleted. Ultimately it was because I didn't really entirely see where it expanded on the pre-existing article, plus it also looked like your article was just a bunch of notes on what you planned on doing with the article once you really began to work on it. What you may want to do in this circumstance is to work on expanding the pre-existing article rather than make an entirely new one. It could probably be successfully argued that non-binary and pansexual artists and songs can and should be included with the article LGBT hip hop because the article already asserts that with the statement "it is defined by a focus on inclusiveness of various sexual orientations and genders". There may even be a good argument towards including additional terms to describe this genre of music because in many minds the term LGBT is fairly exclusive and typically only brings up the orientations listed in LGBT.

However I'd recommend against developing this in the mainspace since this is a school project and you are new to editing Wikipedia. The problem that a lot of students run into with Wikipedia is that it's very, very different from other school assignments in that you cannot make original research on here. By this I mean that you have to be careful that you're only writing about things that have already been written about and not making deductions on your own. An overly simplified example of this would be if I were to write about George Washington and say that he was a cat lover because there was a painting of him holding a cat or because of one statement he made about one specific cat having a lovely coat of fur. Saying that he was a cat lover would be original research because I didn't have any reliable sources (articles written by scholars or primary documents by Washington himself). However if I did have a reliable source that said that Washington really liked cats then that would make it a statement and not original research. You also have to be careful of the tone of your articles- in papers you can pretty much write however you want (within reason) and this means that you can write a paper and use terms that could show that you had a particular point of view on what you were writing about. You can't do this on Wikipedia- everything must be written in a neutral point of view, which can sometimes be a little difficult to get into the habit of doing when you're pretty new. I know that this took me a while when I first started editing.

In any case, the best place for you to start would be in your userspace at User:X-pert Dreamer/Queerness in Hip-Hop culture or in the draftspace at Draft:Queerness in Hip-Hop culture. I would probably recommend on just making a section that you could merge into the main article under a subsection titled "Non-binary sexuality and pansexuality" since this does come extremely close to the main article topic and because topics of this nature almost always tend to discuss the same things and issues as the main LGBT topic, I can see where many would probably argue that it should be merged and would just be redundant to the pre-existing article. That's kind of another way where it differs from schoolwork and papers in general- it's OK to have a paper that is about a specific topic but is somewhat redundant to pre-existing literature because there's no reason not to write these papers and fine tune research. However Wikipedia is a little more general in these areas and while some content forking (WP:FORK) is OK, you'd have to really show how this particular topic would merit a separate article. That's where the userspace would come in handy: if it is decided that it is redundant then it'll be in your userspace and won't run the risk of being speedy deleted. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:05, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• I've moved it to User:X-pert Dreamer/Queerness in Hip-Hop culture, so you can work on it there. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:10, 23 February 2015 (UTC)