User talk:Mercyvalladares

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Hello, Mercyvalladares, 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) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! Here are the notes I promised!

• Avoid writing in a non-neutral tone. Basically, you want to make sure that you're not using any opinion or subjective terms that may change depending on the reader. If you do use them, make sure that it's clearly attributed to the specific person making the claim (ie, saying the term). Basically, you want to make sure that it doesn't come across as Wikipedia supporting the article topic. While deaf people and deaf culture should absolutely be supported, Wikipedia is meant to be a neutral source and shouldn't be a proponent as far as the article content goes, if that makes sense.

• This article is actually fairly general about deaf culture and people in Cuba. The article is meant to be more specific about CSL, akin to how the ASL page is set up. Something that you may want to look at is taking the more general information (everything from history and downwards) and creating a new page on deafness in Cuba, as there is surprisingly no article about this topic on Wikipedia and there absolutely should be.

So far I think you have a good start here and one of the main issues will likely be finding sources, as most of this will be written in Spanish, which can be a barrier if you're not fluent, and may require some wading through sourcing to find the good stuff. I found some sourcing via Google Scholar, but you'll need to pick through this since not all of them will be useful. I'd definitely hit up your library's academic database, as they'll typically have more reliable sourcing. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:32, 6 May 2019 (UTC)