User talk:Cwkennedy

Welcome!
Hello, Cwkennedy, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:35, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Amy Townsend-Small for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Amy Townsend-Small is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Amy Townsend-Small until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ahecht (TALK PAGE ) 15:31, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018
Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Amy Townsend-Small— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 16:49, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Writing about professors
I see you have an assignment to write an article about a woman professor. However the training materials you used assume you withh be writing about a topic in your course, in this case a science course. So it didn't tell you about Wikipedia's requirements for articles about people. Subjects of biographical articles on Wikipedia are required to be notable; that is significant, interesting, or unusual enough to be worthy of notice, as shown by being the subject of significant coverage in independent reliable secondary sources. Being a professor doing research isn't enough. That is just their job. What is needed for an article about a professor is described at Notability (academics). Amy-Townsend Small is an up and coming researcher as shown by this link, but it is too soon for her to have an article. You will need to find a more senior professor to write about.

Don't get upset at Wikipedia procedures or take notices off pages. We get dozens of new articles about people every day and most are rejected. The rejection is not your fault. You were not given enough information. We suggest that students use WP:Article Wizard to create articles in Draft space rather than writing them directly in main space. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Amy Townsend-Small
Hi Cwkennedy,

Thank you for your contributions to Amy Townsend-Small. I marked the page as having some issues that you can help address: several of the facts listed in the article are not supported with any references, or by references that explicitly support the information preceding them. You can help improve the verifiability of this article by ensuring that all facts are properly cited; I've gone ahead and tagged some of the sentences that need further support. Additionally, the page is an orphan, meaning that no other main space articles link to it. Try to find appropriate articles that could link to Amy Townsend-Small to help build the knowledge tree. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)