User talk:Callencamp

Welcome!
Hello, Callencamp, 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.

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great wok

Mr.Ek0 (talk) 20:45, 17 November 2022 (UTC) 

A kitten for you!
A new article! very impressive

Nuch1102 (talk) 19:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC) 

A goat for you!
Slay

Bambam1019 (talk) 19:32, 29 November 2022 (UTC) 

Peer Review
I think you did a wonderful job so far on your article! Overall, your summaries look really good. I am not sure if you are planning to include anything else, but I think adding a critical review section would be really interesting. You could use sources of academics reviewing her short stories. I also think that historical context would be really good in your article. I think you could add a little bit more about the stories in your lead or a little bit more about Zora Neale Hurston. Overall, I think you did a really good job keeping things neutral and relevant. I do think that you need to add more sources. You need at least 2-3 sources that are relevant to the subject but are not the subject itself. There are a few things that I think might be helpful to you. I have some specific examples below for you, but in general, I would avoid using words like “Sadly” and “unfortunately” unless they are necessary for paraphrasing. I think they make it a bit less neutral. Furthermore, some of your descriptions of the stories start with “This story” and then some of them start with the name of the story. This is not necessary, but I think it would look nice if you started all of them with the name of the story so that it is consistent. Right before the forward, I believe that Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick should be italicized. In John Redding Goes to Sea, I think one of your sentences should be reformatted to “​​However, his mother, Matty, is possessive, superstitious, and claims to be ill in order to convince him to stay”. I just added a comma after possessive and took out the and. I would also take out the word sadly. In the Conversation of Sam, I think the very first comma is unnecessary (After this tale) and I would take out the word unfortunately. Under the Eatonville Anthology, I would maybe underline or bold the first word that you are discussing just for formatting purposes. I would remove the comma after follows in the first sentence of Book of Harlem. Bambam1019 (talk) 19:42, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

This article seems in great shape. I see the blank areas where you still need to fill in, but the large portion that is complete is done incredibly well. The Wiki reads like a standard Wiki and embodies the neutral and informative tone for Wikipedia. I'm sure these will be placed later, but I do see a need for a secondary source when discussing this but I assume once the reception section is complete there will be more secondary sources. I believe you need 2-3 secondary sources before you can create a new page, so including those will really improve the quality of the article in an "easy" way (as I know doing the work to simply and concisely describe all the small stories of a book/author is the hardest part).

The lead is concise and informative, and the overall article is well organized with headings and subheadings as necessary.

I am hoping that later on you'll be able to upload a cover image for the book, as that would improve the article.

Overall, I am really impressed with your completely new article! Once a few secondary sources are added, maybe a cover photo, and the blanks are filled in it will be a perfect resource for people to check for information about this book. Nuch1102 (talk) 23:08, 30 November 2022 (UTC) Nuch1102 (talk) 23:08, 30 November 2022 (UTC)