User talk:DeadlineBreaking/Choose an Article

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You've chosen an interesting array of articles to consider editing for the Wikipedia project! "Scottish Gaelic punk" sounds like a perfect article for you to edit! However, I'm not sure how many useful and scholarly sources you will find on the topic. For this reason, I think this may not be the ideal article to edit. Remember that Wikipedia is looking for people to summarize scholarly sources on a topic. If scholarly sources don't exist, there's not much you can do about that.

Where "Scottish Gaelic punk" might be too specific to have much in the way of scholarly research on it, I think "Gaelic folk music" has the opposite problem: it's a HUGE topic! There's definitely lots of room to contribute to this article, but I think you'd need to think really carefully about what this article should cover, what should be left to other articles to cover (to avoid unnecessary duplication), and how to organize the content effectively. I think that this kind of editing work would come easier once you had some experience editing other articles, and once you have a better sense of the breadth and depth of Gaelic folk music. As a result, I don't necessarily recommend editing this article either.

I think the other three articles you consider are good candidates for editing: they're specific, they're not overly developed (there's lots of room to add to them), and there are lots of good sources that you could draw on for each.

I wasn't sure you understood, however, what "potential sources" means. Under "Scottish Gaelic punk," for example, you list other versions of the Wikipedia article as sources. The other articles all have lists of websites as sources. As I noted above, Wikipedia wants university students to work with scholarly sources since university students are in the unique position of having access to them and they are already working with them for their courses. Instead of working with websites, you should be looking at scholarly books (chapters are fine) and journal articles. If you do want to use a website as a source, be sure to evaluate the website carefully first (like how we used the CCRAP method today in class to evaluate websites on the Scottish harp).

Feel free to come and speak with me if you'd like to discuss any of this further. CBFraoch (talk) 21:26, 15 November 2023 (UTC)