User talk:Bholmes8/Lake Nottely

Preliminary Review from Kaylea
Hi, I'm starting to walk through articles and give everyone informal early feedback on how they're doing. You'll notice this is a little bit form-letter-ish but I hope it is still helpful.

I see you've made some changes and are starting to incorporate elements from our training, but there's still a ways to go with this article. If you're feeling stuck, please let me know how I can support you.

There are some details in the previous version of articles that are now missing; usually removing material needs a bit of justification. The task for the course is to revise the existing article and advance it by a quality level; you don't need to start from scratch. Let me know if I can clarify anything.

Kaylea Champion (talk) 07:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Follow up from Kaylea
Hi

You've made some good improvements to the article. The main changes I see are some rearranging to make a separate section about the dam, and the addition of information about geography, fishing, and activities. You added some references -- the government tourism site looks okay, the outdoor news and aa-fishing one a bit less so. The aim for a Wikipedia article is to use sources that are independent of the topic and have editorial policies that fact-check authors. Two tips for you on this front -- check out what the US Geological Survey has on the topic (Google: lake nottely georgia site:usgs.gov), and see what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published. Old issues of the AJC are available via Nexis Uni: https://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url=http://www.nexisuni.com should drop you into our UW subscription to this service.

This line: "With over 100 miles of shoreline, anglers have plenty of opportunity to fish. " is a bit too much like what you'd hear in an advertisement and needs to be revised--take a look at other articles about lakes in the box of waterways already in your article.

Speaking of that box :) I saw something happened to it -- yours no longer looks/looked like the original. My guess is that you copied material without first switching to the Source Editing mode. Mako has a video here about how to do copy-pastes of articles in Wikipedia: https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1ba4498f-53a8-4216-a3fe-ae22003aec55

I went ahead and fixed your article, but it'll be a lot harder to fix this issue when you work on going live, so please take a look so you understand what happened.

Once you've had a chance to incorporate some stronger sources, let me know, and I'll take another look. This is good progress.

Kaylea Champion (talk) 19:52, 16 February 2022 (UTC)