User talk:Ddwashjr

Welcome!
Hello, Ddwashjr, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

The finer points of Wikipedia writing/editing
Ddwashjr, regarding your question about learning how "the finer points", I'd say if you've been through the training modules, that's enough; Wikipedia has a basic principle of editing called, Be bold! which means, just get out there, and edit something. You don't need to know the finer points, and you don't have to be afraid of breaking something, because it can easily be undone by another editor if your change is problematic. Also, if someone does undo an edit of yours, your work is not "lost"&mdash;it's all saved in the History, so you can get it back again, and fix up whatever the problems were. So, I'd strongly recommend you stop learning, and start doing. Simple things at first: find a misspelling, a missing comma, some questionable grammar or wording, and just make small improvements, and save them. That will get you started, and give you some confidence. It will also likely provoke some specific questions based on your experience to that point. Then, you can come back to Shalor's page, and ask her a more targeted question. Does that sound good to you? Don't hesitate to reply to me below, or ping me to get my attention at a later point, if you have any questions. So, just go for it, and good luck! Mathglot (talk) 10:50, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mathglot! Ddwashjr, if you're curious about basic editing formatting with Visual Editor, you should look over these videos. They're editing in a prior version, but all of the basics are still going to be the same - it just looks a little different, is all. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:26, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review of E. Lynn Harris article
Ddwashjr - What a great subject for a Wikipedia article. One of the primary issues with the article that I see is the lack of working citation links. This can be easily fixed by removing resources that are no longer valid and replacing them with other resources that validate the same information. Another potential improvement I see would be to use Mr. Harris's own memoir as a resource for his biography, which can also use an organizational adjustment. Lastly, www.goodreads.com would be a great resource to cite each book and its summary since it is not a book seller, but rather a book recommendation site. I look forward to the improvements you'll make! MollyMoxenFree (talk) 02:36, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Reply
Hi. Yes, your understanding is correct, you shouldn't use book covers in that article. And as your classmate mentioned in their feedback, you need to include sources for all the content you added to the article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:13, 16 July 2020 (UTC)