User talk:BrianaBatt

Welcome!
Hello, BrianaBatt, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 04:13, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Choice of subject
Good morning. I saw you chose climate change as your subject for your University assignment. I would advise you to choose a different topic, such as effects of climate change. The climate change article is already a featured article, which means it's difficult to improve: the standards for prose quality and sourcing are quite high. Furthermore, the article is already slightly too long, so that we have an even higher bar for additions. Editing articles that aren't as good will be easier. Good luck in your Wikipedia adventure! Femke Nijsse (talk) 07:12, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * and another heads up: we're not allowed to put external links within the body of an article. Instead, we only use them as a source (cited at the end of the sentence). Femke Nijsse (talk) 07:29, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you for your enthusiastic additions. I have had to undo quite a few of your additions unfortunately. Your latest addition used the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which we don't consider to be a reliable source. There is a good essay you might find interesting to select reliable sources for science topics: WP:SCIRS. The ideal source is some sort of peer-reviewed literature review . Femke Nijsse (talk) 18:45, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Article assignment
Hi. I noticed that you assigned yourself the climate change article to improve as part of your assignment. I wanted to let you know that this article is Featured Article, which means that it is among Wikipedia's best work. While there might be room to make a few small improvements to Featured Articles, they are going to be fairly complete. In addition, edits to them should conform fully with Wikipedia's Style Manual. Featured Articles are challenging to work on, especially as part of your your first major contribution to Wikipedia. For that reason, I strongly recommend that you pick a different article to work on - one that have scope for improvement. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:09, 12 October 2020 (UTC)