User talk:Marticards

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Hello, Marticards, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi! Just to give you a head's up, Ian (Wiki Ed) is your Wikipedia Expert, so I'm tagging him so he can chime in as well.

Your question was about making your sandbox publicly viewable. There are two answers on this, depending on what you're intending. If you want your instructor or peers to see it while you're working on your draft, then rest easy - they can see your sandbox without needing to have any special permissions. You may need to send them a link so they can find it easier (they could look for it by going through your edit history, but a link is easier), but the long and short is that your sandbox will be visible.

Now to move a page live, you would need to follow these directions, however I do need to caution you that the page still needs some work before it can be moved live. I would review this pamphlet that goes over what is needed in a biography article. Another good practice would be to review a biography article on another geologist and look to see how it's set up and what it has in it, to see what else can be added to your draft. Some pointers I can give you are as follows:

• On Wikipedia the style is to use a person's last name to refer to them as opposed to their first name, as using the first name can be seen as too casual.
• This needs more sourcing to show where Weber is notable. These sources should be independent of Weber and in reliable sources. Things to look for would be articles written about her and her work, such as retrospectives of her career or reviews. You can use primary sources (things that are written by Weber or by people/organizations affiliated with her), but they cannot show notability.

Ian can give you more pointers as you go along. I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:33, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

According to your class's timeline you shouldn't be moving your work "live" for another month. First you need to polish your draft some more, then get peer review from your classmates. Only then do you need to think about moving your work to mainspace. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:37, 1 February 2019 (UTC)