User:Elysia (Wiki Ed)/notes
Pre-written messages for common student issues:
- Comparing two different pages--useful for comparing a student's sandbox draft vs. the article they've copy-pasted in
Stats on women biography percentages in multiple languages [4]
Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles: articles that the most incoming redlinks
Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
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Audiences: Core Metrics and Insights (WMF presentation that includes the 19% new editors figure)
Plagiarism message:[edit]
Hello, I received a notification that you had posted material that closely paraphrased or took material verbatim from content that had previously been published elsewhere to your article. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.
Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/plagiarism module on plagiarism and copyright] Thanks. ~~~~
Common feedback messages[edit]
*Wikipedia section titles are written in "sentence case" not "title case", meaning that just the first word and any proper nouns are capitalized. So, for example, instead of a section "Early Life and Education", you would have "Early life and education"
*Just part of the Wikipedia style guide, but citations directly follow punctuation, including commas, periods, and semicolons (Sentence.<sup>[1]</sup> not Sentence<sup>[1]</sup>. or Sentence. <sup>[1]</sup>) I see a couple instances to fix—you can just drag and drop the references to move them where they need to go.
Additionally, there are no spaces between subsequent references (Sentence.<sup>[1][2][3]</sup> not Sentence.<sup>[1] [2] [3]</sup>)
*For a biography, you'll want to bold the name of the person in the very first sentence (just a standard Wikipedia convention)
Avoiding "Biography" section
Instead of having a section called "biography" (the whole article is technically a biography), it is more common to see section like "Early life and education", "Career", "Awards and honors", "Selected publications" etc
You should add links to other Wikipedia articles! I like to have at least one link per paragraph, and sometimes many more than that. To add a link to another Wikipedia article, go into edit mode, highlight a word or term with your cursor, and click the chain icon on the top toolbar.
Adding more references
In general, all content on Wikipedia should be referenced. If consecutive sentences come from the same source, the citation can be added once at the end of the consecutive sentences rather than duplicated at the end of each sentence. In that vein, no paragraph should end without a citation, and no paragraphs should lack citations. I see several paragraphs that lack citations, which is a red flag. Where does this content come from? How will the reader know it's verifiable?
reference errors
*Looks like some of your references have date format errors (see the red text in the references at the bottom of the page?) To fix this, go into edit mode, click the in-text citation, and if the popup box has {{red|Check date values in:}}, then click "edit" in the popup box. The citation formatting prefers formatting like 22 May 2020 or May 22, 2020. It gets confused by 2020-05. Have either MDY, DMY, or only year to avoid the date errors. Once corrected, click "apply changes"
MOS:SURNAME
*People on Wikipedia are referred to by their surnames, and typically not their first name alone. It has been judged that calling someone by their first name alone feels too "familiar", and it is often applied unevenly, more so to articles about women than men. Please use the surname or the full name instead.