User talk:Vmettlen1

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Hello, Vmettlen1, 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) 15:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Great Pacific garbage patch

In your edit to the Great Pacific garbage patch you added the following

When thinking about pollution in the ocean the term "garbage patch" comes to mind while there are many, many students are most familiar with The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not the only garbage patch it is just known for being the largest.

References

I reverted your edit because it had a few issues.

• Mention of "students" is odd in a general encyclopedia with readers throughout the world.
• There were tone issues: "many, many students" is too informal.
• Your source did not support the statement - it says nothing about what "comes to mind" when students think about the Great Pacific garbage patch. References need to support the specific content you add to the article.
• You added this content to the lead section. The lead section is supposed to summarize the content of the article body. The text you added ("perceptions of the garbage patch"?) does not seem to be a summary of any section in the article.

If you have questions, please feel free to get in touch. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:47, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Karina Schafer (talk) 17:27, 29 March 2018 (UTC)