User:Backbrush/sandbox

Find an appropriate subject guide or page and post it to your Sandbox along with a 1-paragraph summary of its most important points:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Editing_Wikipedia_Articles_Biographies.pdf

The appropriate subject guide selected for the article, Max Brödel, would be the biography guide given by the training for this week. Aside from the important general points about all articles given in earlier training (such as writing fact-based content, engaging with other editors, using your own words/not plagiarizing, preventing bias and maintaining neutrality, giving the same amount of attention to all details, and not adding unsure content), there were many biography-centered tips on the guide page. Because Max Brödel is not a living person anymore, more focus was put into the next few sections, how to write such an article and its framework.. The most important points more lay in the suggestion to familiarize myself with usual academic writing and the structure of typical good historical biography pages on Wikipedia: Lead section, Early life, Career/actions/defining experiences, legacy, and publications/other works.

Because the article to write about has already been selected, the key points for choosing were not included in this paragraph, but definitely reconsidered, especially looking at the classification of the article (C-Class), and how much to add into the article (there are a few sources on JHU catalyst for Max Brödel). Another guide that may be helpful in this article is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Editing_Wikipedia_articles_on_History.pdf

This is because Max Brödel is a historical figure, as he died in 1941. However, this is mostly about a person so it is more suited to list this under "biographies". It is especially important to consider how history is discussed by different historians and how a different percent of each of them present different sides and weights on different parts of an event or a person's life. This weight should be shown in the wikipedia article as clearly as possible. Also, it is imperative to describe multiple points of view.