User talk:Blomeli

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Hello, Blomeli, 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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Moved article
Hi! I moved the draft article the group was working on to User:Blomeli/Black immigration in the United States. My colleague Ian and I found some issues with the draft that should be addressed before it's moved back live:


 * There's already an article on African immigration to the United States, so this article will need to cover Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American immigration, as otherwise this will cause issues of redundancy as well as ones of bias (ie, excluding groups in favor of others). Keep in mind that the term black is typically used to refer to people from sub-Saharan Africa as well, so not all of Africa is considered to fall into this area.


 * There needs to be more of an emphasis on history and context - especially historical context. The article takes too much of a recent look at things, when Black immigration has been ongoing for a long time prior to the 2000s.


 * Make sure that you aren't including original research. Claims should be explicitly stated in the source material - if it isn't stated then it can't be included. An example I gave of this on the article's talk page was the lead, which originally stated that black immigration was a recent thing. The source that was given didn't actually state this. Another source did, but it specified voluntary immigration, which is a pretty important distinction. (ie, someone immigrating out of free will vs someone who is forced to immigrate in order to seek safety) It's really important to make sure that the source backs up the claim and that we're correctly summarizing the source material.


 * On this note, be careful about what is included. For example, when including a specific person make sure that they consider themselves Black as opposed to dark skinned. I gave Iman as an example of this since whether or not to consider her as black is apparently an ongoing dispute on Wikipedia. She's from Somalia, which is part of North Africa - so she wouldn't necessarily fall into the way the term "black" is typically used.


 * Also keep in mind specifics such as specific laws, specific numbers, specific dates. The African immigration article could serve as a good example of this.


 * There shouldn't be as big of an emphasis on the immigration rights organizations as there is. At most this section should be a 1-2 paragraph overview that gives a general overview of the help and rights organizations. Specific organizations should only be briefly highlighted and even then, this should be limited to only those that have articles and/or have enough coverage in independent, reliable sources to justify highlighting them in this detail. The amount of detail for these groups puts undue weight on them, which makes them and immigration activism the central focus of the article.


 * Finally, with sourcing make sure that you have a good amount of sourcing. Sections shouldn't rely too heavily on a single source - make sure that you find other sourcing that backs up the claims, as this will show that the claim/viewpoint is held by more than a single person. If only one person holds a viewpoint odds are high that this may not warrant inclusion or as heavy of an emphasis in the article.

Both Ian and I think that the article could stand on its own, but it needs to take more of a general, historic overview. Since the article is back in your userspace, this should give you guys more time to fix the issues. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:21, 14 June 2018 (UTC)