User talk:Fthen001

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Fthen001, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam 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. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:30, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi![edit]

Hi! My name is Alexandria Rodriguez. Hope to meet you this semester!Alejuly98 (talk) 22:59, 6 September 2016 (UTC) @Alfgarciamora:[reply]

Hi Alexandria! I'm excited to get to know you and our other classmates through out the semester :) Fthen001 (talk) 01:49, 7 September 2016 (UTC) @Alfgarciamora:[reply]

Feedback request[edit]

I got your feedback request and took a look at your sandbox. You're off to a really nice start, but I wanted to let you know a few ways that you could improve things

References go after punctuation, not before. There shouldn't be spaces before references. Wikipedia used straight quotation marks, not curly quotes.
Be very careful that what you're saying is fully supported by your sources, especially when you make controversial statements. For example, you say
vulgar language and slang became more popular as rates of homosexuality grew in the 1960s
. That's a pretty strong statement, and one that's immediately surprising to the reader. When I checked the source, I couldn't find any evidence that the rate of homosexuality increased, far less that that this change in prevalence happened in the 1960s.

One other thing - when you're writing, you should try to find sources that support broader, more general statements. Right now, you have a lot of examples, but the overarching idea isn't strongly presented. Examples should be used to support the broader patterns and illustrate the broader statements. You shouldn't try to write simply by citing loosely-connected examples. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:12, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian (Wiki Ed): Hi Ian. Thank you so much for your feedback, it has been extremely helpful. I will definitely go through my article and ensure that everything is fully supported by my articles and is not misleading before publishing. I think that some of my sources are broad enough for me to revisit them. When trying to understand concepts, I focus mainly on examples and that is the approach I have taken with this article. However, I completely agree that I am missing the larger ideas, and will focus on expanding that going forward. Fthen001 (talk) 01:04, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]