User talk:ElleM35

Welcome!
Hello, ElleM35, 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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Assignment questions
Hi! I see on your course page that your class has the admirable assignment of "making contributions to Wikipedia specifically designed to correct the well-documented gender, heterosexual, white, and Western bias in this extremely influential resource." Thank you for participating in this, as it's really needed here. However, I note that you've chosen Two-spirit for your assignment. Have you thoroughly read the article and all the sources? While we can always use more people watching the article and keeping those problems from creeping in, we've done a lot of work already to remove those biases from the article. May I suggest that it might be a better experience for you to pick a smaller article that hasn't been so thoroughly cited, and that is not in a stable form? We've generally had to revert student additions to this article, so I'm wondering if maybe there's a stub article you were also considering that needs expansion, or a new article that we could really use on Wikipedia? If not, maybe you could let me, or those of us at the Indigenous Wikiproject know what sort of changes you were interested in making before you put a lot of effort into this. Thanks! - CorbieVreccan ☊ ☼ 21:05, 3 October 2019 (UTC)