User talk:Cham1508

Multiple accounts
I have to ask why you're using multiple accounts to edit Wikipedia. As per WP:MULTIPLE, this is not permitted without good reason. It seems obvious based on your writing style that you are also and, not to mention the editing history. All three of these accounts have only made major expansions to Abortion in Australia over the last day, and have only edited that article. It is likely all three accounts will be banned from editing if you don't explain why you are only creating accounts for a single edit. Damien Linnane (talk) 08:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Not multiple accounts - Group Assignment
The edits to the wikipedia page were a part of a Group Assignment for university students targeted to pick a topic from wikipedia and add to the page using anthropology sources. The accounts used are not multiple accounts but instead different people contributing to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Depressed dino (talk • contribs) 09:09, August 24, 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, that makes sense. It's just very unusual for an article like this to get a lot of similar attention very quickly.
 * I was very much getting the impression this was the work of undergraduate students though. Don't take this an an insult, but the writing style of all three accounts is very reflective of what you'd expect to see in an essay. Which is not to say it's bad by any means, rather, it's just inappropriate for Wikipedia. If you'd like more detail about why feel free to ask, but for starters, we aim to keep the word count as low as physically possible here. Don't use a large paragraph to say something that can be condensed to a couple sentences.
 * We also have to stay focused, and don't want to go off on tangents unless its justifiable. The paragraph comparing abortion in Australian to that in the US is interesting and all, but there doesn't seem to be a justifiable reason to make the comparison. Why not also compare it to the UK, New Zealand and Nigeria for that matter? There's lots of issues here, one of them would be WP:UNDUE. It's not appropriate to compare it to the US and not to any other country. You're creating a perception that Australian must be compared to America, which is problematic. The solution to this, however, isn't comparing it to other countries as well. There's no specific reason to compare Australia to any other country on the matter.
 * Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions regarding why I've truncated your additions so much. I know from experience when I first started writing Wikipedia 13 years ago that it's really disheartening when you spend a lot of time writing and referencing a paragraph, only to be told it's addition was not appropriate. It happened to me many times. Damien Linnane (talk) 09:30, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

The assignment given had a word count of 200 for each section chosen so we could only do a minimum/maximum of 200 therefore some sections may seem like it was a large 'unnecessary' amount of information and some (like the comparison to US) may seem like there wasn't enough. The intention was not to create any perception about the comparison between Aus and US but more just to show that there is a direct influence between the Australian and US politics and culture on Abortion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Depressed dino (talk • contribs) 09:41, August 24, 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. I can definitely understand the position you've been put in. University assignments are notorious obsessed with hitting word counts. It's highly likely the academic who set the assignment doesn't have an awful lot of experience writing Wikipedia themselves. I once gave a lecture for academics at the University of Newcastle on how to edit Wikipedia, and I was pretty amazed about how little they seemed to know about how things work here. Feel free to tell your lecturer I said trying to impose a word-count on a Wikipedia edit is a horrendous idea. Actually if you give me their details I'll be happy to tell them myself, not that I think it will accomplish anything.
 * Have I jeopardized your assignment by reverting all of your edits? If you like, I can temporarily reinstate them and the you can link to a previous version with all the sections intact. I.e you can still see the text you added in the history here: . I could happily add them all back temporarily so you can link to a version where they are see all together. One of the biggest problems we have on Wikipedia is many articles are not monitored (Abortion in Australia is one of about 350 I monitor). It's likely your edits may have remained at another page, so to be honest even though I think those edits should not have remained, I still feel a jerk for potentially harming your assignment. The writing and referencing was very good for an essay, just not for here. I'd be happy to write to your lecturer and let them know that if you like. Let me know if I can help someway.
 * Also please sign you comments by typing four ~ at the end of your comments. See Signatures. Damien Linnane (talk) 09:57, 24 August 2021 (UTC)