User talk:Corrinnc

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Welcome!

Hello, Corrinnc, 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) 15:55, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Violence against women

Hi! I wanted to give you a head's up about the article on violence against women. The article is one that is very heavily watched and patrolled on Wikipedia due to it being sanctioned - what this means for you as an editor is that anything you add to the article must be written as neutrally as possible and sourced with the best possible sources. If any of your edits are reverted, you need to discuss the changes on the talk page before re-adding anything.

One quick note about your contribution - make sure that you avoid writing anything that could be seen as a personal opinion or viewpoint, as this can make the writing seem non-neutral. This can honestly be a little hard to do when you first start editing, especially with a topic like this, which invokes some pretty strong emotions, so a good practice would be to look at some of the other articles and style your writing after them. Also, one of your sources didn't come up with the full citation (this one) and needs to be fixed. You should also be cautious when it comes to using sites like this as a citation. It's not that they're necessarily wrong, just that their work may not be the most neutral content out there because they are working towards their goal of helping women and stopping violence. It's a noble goal, but it does make them a weaker source than an academic or scholarly source so it's always better to make sure to check against the findings or claims in something put out by an organization.

I hope this helps! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 16:08, 7 December 2018 (UTC)