User talk:Onikjeh
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Hello, Onikjeh, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Onikjeh, I have moved this article back into draft space because it is not yet ready for article space. There's a lot of good material here, but please take care of the following issues:
- the article requires inline citations - i.e., each statement or block of statements needs to be connected to its source in the text. It is of very little use to the reader if there is a massive block of references and no indications of which statement is sourced by which reference. See WP:Referencing for beginners for markup guidelines. It appears to me that you just copied the entire reference list of "Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations"; that's not really a suitable approach.
- the article requires a WP:LEAD that summarizes the main points (no refs necessary here, as it shouldn't contain material not covered & referenced in the article anyway)
- the article requires internal hyperlinks to connect it with other articles. Please see MOS:LINK for guidelines. There's a lot of technical and specialist terms in here that would benefit from being linked to their respective articles.
- the article requires categories to make it detectable in various indices. Please see Wikipedia:Categorization for guidelines.
- please take care to avoid formulations such as "very recently" etc., as they will rapidly get out of date :)
Once these things are taken care of, you can move the page back into article space. If there are any problems, let me know. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:48, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- As a supplement to Elmidae's excellent suggestions, I recommend that you take a careful read of the Editing Wikipedia brochure. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- Umm. Knock-knock? Did you read anything of the above before ramming the article back into mainspace? It is not ready in its current form. If you don't see to the noted issues before throwing the article out into the wild, it will very likely be butchered on the hoof. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I notice that the move was actually done by Loeraas, not you - apologies if this happened without your knowledge. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)