User talk:Amechifrank

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Hello, Amechifrank, 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) 17:01, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I wanted to give you some feedback on the content you have in your sandbox.

• All of the content needs to be sourced via in-line citations so that others can verify things. Any unsourced content can be challenged and removed from the article.

• Avoid non-neutral phrases and words like "boasts" and "tremendous". The reason for this is that these can be seen as subjective to the reader and are also things that are frequently used in press releases and commercials intended to promote something.

• I would only mention the marketing grants if there are a lot of independent, reliable sources to justify including it. The reason for this is that Wikipedia articles are meant to be very general overviews of a topic and things like this are often seen as too specific of a detail, especially as it only pertains to a specific area of central Georgia. Also, hotlinking to the grants page and directing people there can be seen as Wikipedia endorsing the grant, which should be avoided.

• Only remove citations if you are updating them or if there is something wrong with them, such as the link being dead or when the citation is wrong and doesn't back up the claims in the article. When replacing citations, make sure that the new citation is as strong as, if not stronger, than the source you're replacing.

I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:51, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes, this helps a lot, thank you very much. please continue to review my page, as I'm about to make some more additionsAmechifrank (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

• Hi! I looked over the additions - there are still issues with it coming across as promotional and with sourcing. With the list of people, you will need to have sourcing that verifies that they came from central Georgia - you can probably find this sourcing in the peoples' articles. However one note about the list - lists like these should only list people who have articles on Wikipedia - if they don't, then they shouldn't be added. Back to the concerns about promotional tones, this is something that would be seen as promotional:

Houston County is also becoming the jewel of central Georgia and becoming one of the fastest growing communities in the state. Just 75 miles south of the Atlanta International Airport, and home to Georgia's largest industrial complex at the Warner Robins Air Force Base, Houston county has more than 3,000 acres of land for industrial development. It also has ones of the lowest property tax rates in middle Georgia and has been designated one of Georgia’s Entrepreneur Friendly Communities.'

The claim of Houston County being or becoming the jewel of central Georgia is very subjective and the way that this is written comes across like we're trying to persuade the reader to see things in a certain, positive light. It's also unsourced. The section should be more along the lines of this as far as tone goes. This also needs sourcing to back up the claims in the article - it's best to add them in as you go, rather than afterwards because it's easy to forget where you read something.

I hope that this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:09, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Copying

I wanted to make a quick note - the first sentence of your new draft was lifted directly from the USA Today source. This would be seen as plagiarism and a copyright issue on Wikipedia, so please be careful and make sure that when you write your content that you're doing it in your own words. Unless otherwise stated, always assume that previously published content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:09, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

• Using the source as a citation doesn't resolve the issue of plagiarism and copyright, as most work is released under a copyright that isn't compatible with Wikipedia. If anything else in the draft was taken from an outside source verbatim, it needs to be re-written. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:29, 19 July 2018 (UTC)