User talk:Ejia1

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Hello, Ejia1, 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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Model minority ‎
Hi! I wanted to leave you some notes about the edits you made at model minority. The first is that I noticed that you marked your edit as minor, however the edits were a bit too substantial to be considered minor. Minor edits are considered to be things like correcting spelling and grammatical errors or reformatting an existing source, things that would be considered so small that it's unlikely that anyone would contest the additions or changes. Things like adding a new sentence or slightly re-writing an existing sentence would not be considered minor, as the more you add the higher the chances of someone contesting the addition. I generally don't use the minor edit button unless I'm fixing small errors.

In specific the content you added would be considered non-minor and also has a chance of being contested. The reason for this is that the model minority article is one that is more closely watched because it deals with a topic that is highly controversial and heavily edited, namely race and ethnicity. Edits to articles like this one need to be especially carefully done. I've edited the content to flow a bit better and to remove one or two things that may be seen as a bit point of view. For example, I removed the quotes around the word non-model and reverted that sentence back to the way it was. The reason for this is that this can can come across as a bit of opinion or emotion in the piece - regardless of the topic, readers should not be able to tell your opinion on the matter. I also re-wrote the second sentence to credit the claim to NPR, as claims like that should generally be attributed to a specific source in the article because it can be seen as an opinion as well. It was good information to add, but with articles like this we just have to be careful on how it's added.

Again though, that's a good and interesting piece of information to add- good catch! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:40, 21 September 2017 (UTC)