User talk:ActualSportsFan88

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Climate change in New Hampshire

Why does this this addition contain "nowiki" tags? Also, why are none of the references inline? As it stands, it is impossible to tell which references are intended to support which claims. I am inclined to revert, if not fixed. BD2412 T 15:51, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Edits

Hi! Thanks for your edits to the climate change in New Hampshire article. I see you're editing Wikipedia as part of a university project and hope that's going well. I'm keen to see more environmental content on Wikipedia and I know it can be a bit difficult to get used to editing Wikipedia for the first time, so here's some thoughts on what you're adding.

Few thoughts on your edits. A lot of what you're adding looks reasonable-effects on winter sports industries and so on. When you're editing an article that already has sections-there's already a "winter recreation" section-the goal is to improve the sections that already exist, not duplicate them. My advice would be to add content into the article by finding sections that aren't detailed enough and improving them. It's often better to drip-feed ideas in as a series of edits.

Writing on Wikipedia is different to writing a university essay. Wikipedia has a policy called "no original research", meaning we need to cite sources rather than do analysis ourselves or give our own opinions, experience or hunches. For example: you compare snowfall in 1950 to 2003. But snowfall varies a lot from year to year. It would be better to cite a comparison of average snowfall by decade, something Wake/Burakowski et al do. Similarly, you mention ski resorts having closed. But before adding this, find a reliable source that says this is due to climate change and snowfall decrease: it could be for other reasons (see e.g. the borscht belt for an example of resorts closing due to cultural reasons like cheaper airfares). Similarly, I'd be sceptical that beaches are already getting more crowded due to sea level rise. In my experience, most of the scarier potential consequences of global warming are yet to happen rather than things that are already happening.

With citations, Wikipedia uses templates for references, rather than (1), (2) and so on. You fill these in from the "cite" form in the edit window. When you do that, you can fill in a "Ref name" for the reference which names it so you can cite it in multiple places in the article. There are various videos on how to add citations to Wikipedia e.g. this is one.

I realise this is difficult. My general advice when getting used to Wikipedia's systems and policies is to start small, make small changes and get used to the formatting, and then build up into bigger changes. I hope this is helpful, please reply below if you have any questions or thoughts! Blythwood (talk) 11:49, 8 December 2023 (UTC)