User talk:Cali0823

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Cali0823, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:11, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Azfredo93 (talk) 16:19, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Avery[edit]

Hi, Cali0823. I saw your changes to the Steven Avery article got reverted. Some comments:

You marked your edit as "minor". While it was a relatively small contribution to the page, Wikipedians only use the minor edit flag for edits which don't change any meaning in the article--typo fixes, spacing, re-wording. It's not a big deal, but in the future only mark copyediting style changes as minor edits. There's no problem with making a trivial edit and not marking it minor so if you want to ignore the flag and not have to worry about making that choice now you can.
Because Steven Avery is alive, material on his article needs to meet strict sourcing requirements--primary sources like police reports and self-published sources (like almost everything on medium) are not allowed in articles on living people. You can take a look at our handout on editing biographies for a quick guide to writing about living people.
wikipedia articles normally do not include links to external sites directly in the text. The blue links you see in an article should look like the wikilinks above, not this. external links are normally included in a special section at the end of the article.

Once you update your draft addition to rely on reliable sources, you should be in a much better position to insert it. I hope this helps. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Cali0823. Looking at the section you're improving on Steven Avery, the main current complaint from editors (As you can see from the tag) is that it isn't referenced enough. The timeline that exists there for the murder is serviceable and probably doesn't need to be made too much more detailed, but that section needs more reliable sources. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talk pages[edit]

Hi, Cali0823. If you reply to me on your talk page, I'll be able to see questions you have rather than just getting a notification when you ask for feedback. Talk pages use the source editor, not the visual editor but heres a quick guide on using them. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:20, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]