User talk:BeamerWaterloo

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Hello, BeamerWaterloo, 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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Speedy deletion nomination of User:BeamerWaterloo/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:BeamerWaterloo/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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Sandbox
Hi! I'm responding about the sandbox, which was deleted by under concerns of it being advertising.

I think that one of the more major concerns he may have had is that you're a student editing on the college you're attending. This can make it harder to edit neutrally on the topic, as you're more likely to hold a stronger opinion or feeling about it.

As far as content goes, I do have some notes:


 * I think it would be good to write up an outline of what you want to cover in this, as well as whether you want this to be its own article or a subsection in the main article about cooperative education. Right now it looks like it puts a large emphasis on only a couple of institutions, one of which is run by your university.


 * This needs non-primary sources to help establish notability as well as to help provide stronger verification for facts and details. If this is going to be its own article then notability is extremely important to establish strongly, as we will need to establish how cooperative education in Canada is independently notable outside of the main article on cooperative education.


 * Be careful when using primary sources, as they're most likely to write about something in a positive, promotional way. I think that this is what happened with some of the content, which is why it can come across as promotional. Also keep in mind that the topic should be a general overview, so it's not really necessary to go into a lot of specifics.

This should cover the basics. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2020 (UTC)