User talk:Filloa

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Hello, Filloa, 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) 16:37, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Nutrient cycling
Really nice work on the Nutrient cycling in the Columbia River Basin article. One thing though - the lead section could be improved. I fiddled with it a little, but it could be improved.

An article should start out with the article title, usually bolded, in the form "[Article title] is..." and go on to state what it is as succinctly as possible - ideally, in a single sentence, but that's probably difficult with a topic like this. The rest of the lead section should hit all the major points made in the body of the article, but shouldn't include any information that isn't in the article body.

Most people who read your article aren't actually going to see it - they're going to see that summary Google presents in the top right corner of a search results page. Most people who do make their way to the article aren't going to make it very far into the article either - they're going to read the first paragraph of the lead. And they hope to get what they need to know about a topic from there. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:10, 7 December 2017 (UTC)