User talk:Graceyi11/Housing at the University of Washington

Hi, I'm starting to walk through articles and give everyone informal early feedback on how they're doing. You'll notice this is a little bit form-letter-ish but I hope it is still helpful!

I see you've made some changes and are starting to incorporate elements from our training, but there's still a ways to go with this article. If you're feeling stuck, please let me know how I can support you.

I particularly appreciate your usage of good quality sources in this revision!

One area of improvement for this article will be to shift towards a more encyclopedic tone -- some of the word choices sound a little more like advertising than an encyclopedia article.

Kaylea Champion (talk) 07:06, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Article status

Hi @Graceyi11:

This is good progress. You should compare your article to a similar article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_at_the_University_of_Chicago

One difference you will notice is that your UW Housing article has a lot of details about housing costs. I think what you'll find is that specifics of costs are not generally considered encyclopedic details. These types of details often become rapidly out of date and don't have a lot of purpose once they change. The only exceptions I've seen for this are when the specifics of the costs is particularly important to describing the subject (like a situation where the price of something went from 50 cents to 50 dollars over night, etc.). Unfortunately this does mean a pretty tough edit is needed, but once you've done that, I think the article will be in pretty good shape. Let me know when you'd like me to make another pass

Kaylea Champion (talk) 01:41, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Go live approval

Hi @Graceyi11:

You are approved to go live with this article. I made a few more tweaks to pull a few housing costs out that escaped your edit and some extra spaces.

As a reminder, here are our go-live steps:

1. Final read-through draft.
2. Check live article for changes. [History Tab]
3. Two browsers side by side, if you can. Source editing mode ("Code mode"), not visual editor.
4. Paragraph by paragraph copy, leaving behind an explanatory edit summary after each chunk of changes.
5. Leave a note on article talk page to say you created the page and are open to feedback.
6. Leave a note at the top of your sandbox version to say you are done making edits to the sandbox version.
7. Submit a link to your article on Canvas.

Celebrate!

Kaylea Champion (talk) 03:04, 15 February 2022 (UTC)