User talk:Maddyy.h

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

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Finding articles

Hi Maddy. I would recommend that you start with the Finding articles training module. Beyond that, there are several ways you could proceed.

• If you look at Template:Plankton, you can see several existing articles related to phytoplankton. The main phytoplankton article is pretty well developed, but I imagine that it's by no means comprehensive. The Auxospore article is just a stub, the Axodine article is very short. The latter article links to a lot of genera, some of which are poorly developed, others of which are non-existent. I'm never sure what counts as phytoplankton these days, but assuming that heterokont algae count as phytoplankton, there's an awful lot of taxa you could work on. Similarly, if you look at the genus Chaetoceros, there's a long list of species, only a few of which have existing articles.
• If you look at Category:Ocean pollution and it's subcategories (linked at the top of that page) you will see a number of articles. You might take a look at them to see what's poorly developed, and also think about what should be there but is missing.
• In terms of ocean circulation, take a look at Category:Ocean currents and its subcategories.

I hope this helps. If you still have questions, get in touch. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:57, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Talk pages

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Please can you also add new comments to the end of the page, not the top. In the future you can use the "New section" link in the top right. For more details, see the talk page guidelines. Thanks. DferDaisy (talk) 15:05, 24 March 2018 (UTC)