User talk:Bbaker09

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Hello, Bbaker09, 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) 18:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Acid Hydrolase

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Acid Hydrolase. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Acid hydrolase. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Acid hydrolase. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. PRehse (talk) 11:10, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Acid Hydrolase

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Acid Hydrolase. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Acid hydrolase. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Acid hydrolase. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. PRehse (talk) 17:42, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi. I left you the following feedback on your sandbox. Since you chose to disregard it and move the sandbox back to mainspace, it was deleted, but I will post it here, in case you want to contribute in the future. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Feedback

@Bbaker09, Lspruill25, and Raunayb: I think you moved your sandbox to mainspace by mistake, so I moved it back here. Since there already is an existing article on acid hydrolase, you need to merge your additions into that article, instead of creating a new duplicate article.

In addition, your article isn't ready for mainspace for a few reasons

• Wikipedia articles are not meant to be self-referential, so you should never start an article with something like "The enzyme that was selected for our group was Acid Hydrolase". Instead, you should start an article with a succinct statement of what thing itself is. The opening sentence of an article is one of the most important parts - this is what Google will display on the right when you do a Google search, and it's usually what Siri, Alexa and the like will read if someone asks them what a thing is. Start with something like:

Acid hydrolase is an enzyme which catalyzes...[something]

• You need to use properly-formatted sections. Use the drop-down menu on the visual editor to format your section headers - don't just bold them.
• Make sure that your references are properly-formatted. Use DOIs and PubMed IDs to generate references. Right now, your fourth reference (to Science Direct) is simply a search of Science Direct. Similarly, one of your links to Encyclopaedia Britannica is just a search which starts with "Britannica does not currently have an article on this topic". That's not adequate.
• Use high-quality, scholarly sources. "The Free Dictionary" isn't a reliable source, and it's certainly not a good source for scientific information. You need to use things like review articles from peer-reviewed journals, chapters from scholarly books, and textbooks.
• Finally, make sure that your layout meets the requirements of a Wikipedia article. I've added links to the general "Editing Wikipedia" brochure and the "Genes and Proteins" handout. Both of these have a lot of helpful information to help you create a draft that gets the layout right. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:53, 27 November 2018 (UTC)