User talk:Hcikim

This user is a student editor in Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Winter) .

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Hello, Hcikim, 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) 14:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review[edit]

Hi! I've just completed my peer review of your team's article on Sylvia Speller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hcikim/Sylvia_Speller/HYang2024_Peer_Review. Great job so far and good luck as you continue to work on it! HYang2024 (talk) 21:40, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sylvia Speller[edit]

@Hcikim, Jiyoonh, Junubiin2011, and Dylancomm378: Thanks for creating a biography for Sylvia Speller. I moved it back to your sandbox because it isn't ready for mainspace yet.

The main issue is that you need to demonstrate that they meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. Right now, all of the sources you've used in the article are from their university's website. These sites are not independent - they are usually written by the person themselves, or by someone close to them. In addition, since everyone who has a faculty position has a university website, having one can't be taken as an indication that the person is notable.

Ideally, you want non-trivial coverage in sources that are independent of the person. Press coverage that's not from their website, for example. Articles from journals or specialised publications that detail the importance of their research contributions could work. Information about major awards or their election as fellows to a major professional society - those kinds of things are useful in establishing notability. Have a look at Wikipedia:Notability (academics) for some more information about this kind of thing.

Beyond this, the article should cover why she's notable. The lead right now says this about her contributions: She teaches and researches experimental physics, specifically, surface and interface physics, nanophysics, and scanning probe methods. The lead is supposed to summarise the content of the article body, but all you say in the body about this is Surface and interface physics, nanophysics, scanning probe methods which is actually less than what the lead says (and isn't a complete sentence). Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:50, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]