User talk:Hurstm19

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Hello, Hurstm19, 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) 15:49, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Your draft

I moved your draft article from mainspace back to your sandbox because it isn't polished enough yet to be a "live" Wikipedia article. A few things that need to be improved

• Your article lacks inline sourcing. 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).
• You shouldn't use external links in the body of an article.
• Your structure and formatting doesn't match the way Wikipedia articles are normally laid out. You shouldn't have an "Intro to Wiki" section. Please have a look at pages 7-9 of the "Editing Wikipedia" brochure I've attached to this message. It should help you get a sense of what a Wikipedia article should look like.

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! On it! Hurstm19 (talk) 22:16, 9 April 2024 (UTC)