User talk:Christian.CBC

You have an overdue training assignment.
Please complete the assigned training modules. --JBhistorian (talk) 16:28, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Christian.CBC, 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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Feedback for the course assignment “Add to an article” (due 2/21/18)
I reviewed the citation you added to the Wikipedia article History of slavery in New Jersey.

The citation reads: Jacob Dunham, Account Book, 1816-1841 (Ledger) MC 71,SC/UA.

This assignment is evaluated on 3 criteria:

Part 1 - completion of training module "Sources & Citations"
 * done

Part 2 - Wikipedia tech skills (was the citation added correctly?)
 * good, citation entered correctly

Part 3 - citation content (Is this reference appropriate for the Wikipedia article? Is this a reliable secondary source highlighting historical scholarship on the subject? Is all the citation information complete such as a page number for a book or URL for a website?)
 * Incorrect. Jacob Dunham's account book is a primary source from the archive, and we do not cite archival/primary sources on Wikipedia, we only cite secondary sources. For this reason, this citation should be removed from the article. Review the handout | Editing Wikipedia articles about History, section "Sourcing." Also, did you go to the archive to look at this book? If not, you should not cite it. Remember, you should not cite references that you yourself did not review. This goes for secondary sources, too. Only cite books and articles that you have reviewed and fact-checked.

-- JBhistorian (talk) 22:55, 6 March 2018 (UTC)