User talk:Magneto9x

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Hello, Magneto9x, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:13, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi, here are my notes:

• Be extremely careful and selective of sources. I'm concerned that you used sources that don't really have a lot of information about their editorial oversight.

1. Food-studies.net didn't really have anything on there about its editorial oversight or whether or not they have anyone verifying the content beyond what they've written. It took a while to find who was writing the articles, but it looks like this was a student project created for an introductory level (100/200) course. This likely means that there was no editorial oversight and no way of knowing exactly what is correct, incorrect, only partially true, or the student's own reflection on the topic. It's not something Wikipedia would see as reliable.
2. livinghistoryfarm.org is a bit iffy. It looks better than the prior source, but I'm still concerned about the editorial oversight and verification. With this, you'd need to be able to show where the site has been routinely cited as a reliable source by authoritative, reliable sources.

The other source is fine. It's just that the other two sources are problematic, especially as there are almost certainly stronger sources out there such as scholarly and academic journals or texts that cover the same material.

• The first two sources look at the topic of agricultural subsidy as it applies to the United States. Keep in mind that the article is meant to have a global focus, so the history of agricultural subsidies in the United States would not really be applicable to the history of this elsewhere. I'm also concerned that this history section is redundant to Agricultural_subsidy#United_States, so I would work on merging any information that isn't already covered into the main section.

I hope this helps! --Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:43, 27 November 2018 (UTC)