User talk:Charlotte fletcher89



Hello, Charlotte fletcher89, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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Feedback - the breakfast of champions
Hi Charlotte,

Its nice to see you created a complete stub on An overview of life in Taiwan under Dutch rule. As this was your very first article, it showed great amount of skill, interest and dedication. for a new editor.

However, I am sure you would like some feedback on your work.

Good points

 * The stub was quite adequate and well written.
 * You have referenced the stub adequately.
 * Ypu have added relevant images.
 * You have added a "see also" section.
 * You have added a References section.

Improvement points

 * Every article needs a lead which introduces and summarises the article. This was not provided. I added a single line lead for you to play around with and expand. Always write the lead of an article first and add subsections on detailed aspects later. Please read WP:LEAD.
 * The article title is not what is contained in the stub. One assumes you wrote a subaltern study or an article about day-to-day life in Taiwan under the Dutch, instead it contained the same material as Dutch Formosa. The article title was also not in line with Wikipedia Manual of Style, please see WP:TITLE. I have accordingly moved it to Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan.
 * However, now we have two articles on same topic - Dutch Formosa and Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan. These will need to be merged. You may like to merge this yourself. See WP:Merge
 * Each article MUST have categories. Please see WP:Categorization. This needed to be done without fail. I leave this task to you. If you want a hint as to what categories it should have, see the categories of Dutch Formosa.
 * Majority of articles of Wikipedia fall under a WP:WikiProjects. In this case, the article falls under multiple WikProjects - Taiwan, China and Colonialism. In addition WikiProjects East Asia and Wikipedia Former Countries can also claim it is under their ambit. Talk page banners of the WikiProjects are to be added to the talk page of your stub which is done by using templates of the respective WikiProjects. See Talk:Dutch Formosa. (You need not bother to add this as your article needs to be merged with Dutch Formosa and shall soon lose its independent existence.)
 * Each stub must have a stub template on the main page. This is a standard practice. See WP:Stub sorting. It is something like categorisation but serves a different purpose.

Charlotte, you did such a great job that I decided to take the time and trouble to give you improvement points so that you become a better editor. It has taken me almost an hour to write this. I rarely do this. I have spent this time because I know you have the potential to be a great editor. I do hope you act on this advice and improve this stub first and then merge it into Dutch Formosa. If you do this, you would gain an awesome new set of skills.

All the very best and once again, very well done. AshLin (talk) 04:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC)