User talk:Allymckay10

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Stinglehammer (talk) 16:43, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lisa Boden

Thanks for joining us today Ally and for writing your 1st article! :)

Things to work on/remember for next time and to fix on Lisa Boden's page.

1) Use last name when referring to someone. e.g. Boden not Lisa.

2) The reliable published secondary sources used as citations should be independent of the subject being written about e.g. profiles and books and journal articles and news articles written by others. Information from her own website/ her employer should be used very very sparingly. If at all. Otherwise it runs the risk of looking too much like self-promotion or academic boosterism.

3) Avoid resume style listing of qualifications/work achievements and adopt more prose-style encyclopedia tone to present information that is of interest to a global readership. You can look at how other academics/veterinarians are written about on Wikipedia for pointers. e.g. Clare Bryant or any Category:Women veterinary scientists or Category:Veterinary scientists or the previous Head, David Argyle.

I find writing articles about academics can be challenging as often they are not profiled very often or have much biographical content about them. Instead they often have written academic papers and Wikipedia should not be just a place that just lists their publications. A (shortish) heading of Selected publications is fine though. That said, Jess Wade has managed to write almost 2,000 articles about Women in STEM so feel free to peruse how they are laid out for pointers. well done on your 1st page anyway! Stinglehammer (talk) 17:04, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

You recently moved User:Allymckay10/sandbox page to Lisa Boden. But the sandbox is often used for testcases, hence I think redirect should not be there. I think the move was a mistake or a test case. You can remove the redirect template later. Thank you. Prinaki (talk) 13:05, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]