User talk:Emilyjopayne3

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Hello, Emilyjopayne3, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:13, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Elsa Schiaparelli additions

Hi, unfortunately I've had to revert your additions to Elsa Schiaparelli, because there were multiple issues:

• Some factual errors. e.g. She did not design Lady Gaga's dress for Biden's 2021 inauguration. She died in 1973.
• The subsections you added on individual designs duplicates the scope of the existing § Notable designs section.
• The content you added had no inline citations. These are critical for verifiability.
• Absence of wikilinks (and some other minor formatting issues - e.g. curly rather than straight quotes, not using italics for titles of works)

I would suggest maybe starting with smaller contributions to get a feel for the process. (Also, if you start with small changes, other editors will be more inclined to fix any issues rather than doing a wholesale revert.) Colin M (talk) 16:36, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

@Emilyjopayne3 Keep in mind that everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be tied directly to a reliable source. After the statement, there should be a source. You can use a single source to support several sentences in a row, if it supports everything you say in those sentences, but you need to have at least one source per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any text after the final reference in a paragraph (because that content is effectively unsourced).

If you need a refresher on how to add citations, please consult this training module. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 11 May 2022 (UTC)