User talk:Emilyg31

This user is a student editor in Tulane_University/GESS_2900_-_Spring_2020_-_Making_Wikipedia_Better_(Spring_2020) .

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Hello, Emilyg31, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; 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) 16:24, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Ecs222 (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of special editing rules relating to abortion[edit]

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in abortion. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Because you have shown interest in a highly controversial area of Wikipedia, please carefully ensure that you are following all editing rules. Reach out to Shalor (Wiki Ed) or your instructor if you run into any problems. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:06, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits[edit]

Hi - I have some notes:

Only mark something as a minor edit if you are making a small, non-controversial change such as fixing a broken source or grammatical error. Any time that you add or change content or sourcing in the page to update it or change it to something new, we shouldn't select the minor edit button.

Hotlinking to an outside website within an article is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. It's better to keep a redlink, as this can show that there isn't an article for this facility.

Make sure that you back up any new additions with reliable sources. I noted that some of the content you added was unsourced. This poses an issue with verification, especially since this is a fairly controversial topic.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peer feedback[edit]

I think the information you added was very useful, and I noticed you fixed a lot of the issues with the sources/ source links. If you are still looking for more ways to add to the article, it might be useful to compare your article with abortion articles for other states. I do think your article already is dense with information, so maybe just continuing to better organize it might be good. I also noticed that none of the sources are from 2020, so it may helpful to see if there are any updates on the issue as of the past year. Keep up the good work! :)

Peer feedback response[edit]

Hi! I added a couple sentences about abortion and similar laws being hot topics during the 2020 presidential election and how there is currently no required waiting time, so hopefully this refreshes the page a bit in regards to recent news, since laws in New Jersey has stayed relatively similar. Emilyg31 (talk) 01:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing[edit]

Hi - I saw that some of the content you added to the article was unsourced. All content must be cited to a reliable source, so please make sure that you add sourcing for the claims. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:11, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]