User talk:Ccrawfo4

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Hello, Ccrawfo4, 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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Carefree Black Girls
Hi! I was notified about your edit to Carefree Black Girls. I reverted it since the material looks like it's based more on your own personal research into the topic area as opposed to you summarizing reliable sources about CBG that explicitly state this material. Tying together things to create new conclusions and statements is seen as original research, which should not be on Wikipedia. Essentially, we can and should only include something as part of the CBG movement unless the sourcing very explicitly states that it's part of it or somehow ties it into the movement somehow.

With sourcing in general, be careful with sourcing on the Internet as not everything is considered to be reliable. A lot of what's out there is self-published or released through outlets that are typically not seen as reliable. For example, with the For Harriet site, it's unclear as to how much editorial oversight or verification they provide for the sources. For it to be usable, we'd have to show where it's routinely cited as a reliable source by other reliable sources, especially academic and scholarly sources. Since this originated in Tumblr it will potentially be difficult to find sourcing in scholarly and academic databases (sourcing from there is typically seen as the strongest), but it looks like it's out there per search results like this, this, and this. As far as general internet sourcing goes, things like this would be good.

The material should also not be written from the standpoint of a specific person, such as "I see". The writing should be like the style seen in articles like Canadian Indian residential school system. Quotes need to be very clearly marked and should only be included if they are absolutely necessary and can't be summarized in your own words - too many quotes will detract from the article, especially if they make up a large portion of it.

I hope that this helps. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:54, 30 November 2018 (UTC)