Talk:Russia in the Opium Wars

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 03:14, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Moved article
Hi, ! I've moved this to your userspace so you can work on expanding the article at your leisure. When something is in the mainspace there's more of an expectation that it will either be complete or will have the basic content needed (notability, context, etc) to stave off any deletion concerns. I myself prefer building articles in my userspace for this very reason, since it makes it a lot easier since I don't have to worry about it getting deleted while I'm not at the computer. When you're done and the article is ready, you can move it back live. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:14, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi ! I wanted to let you know that I fixed the headings. When creating headings you need to have it formatted like this: ==Section heading== in source mode and in VisualEditor you need to select Heading from the big drop down menu. The reason for this is that otherwise this won't be correctly formatted. Other than that, this looks good. It still needs some tweaks for the following:
 * Some portions of the article are unsourced, like the background section, or could use more sourcing, so these areas need more sourcing.
 * Be careful of tone and phrasing. Things like "one must note" are seen as a little non-NPOV, as statements like that are a little subjective. What one person believes is of important note isn't always the same for another. It also lends to somewhat of an essay tone, which should be avoided in articles.
 * Be extremely cautious with sourcing. A look at vokrugsveta.ru (via Google Translate) shows that the site looks to be like Wikipedia in that people can sign up with an account and edit pages. This means that this site cannot be used as a reliable source since it's nigh impossible to have and maintain the level of reliability and verifiability needed to be a truly reliable source. This doesn't mean that the source is necessarily wrong, just that we can't use it on here. In general it's usually best to use academic and scholarly sources like journal articles, textbooks, and the like since those are almost always of very high quality and will hold up under scrutiny.
 * Other than that, this looks to be a great start for the article - good job! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:50, 20 February 2018 (UTC)