User talk:Haleyhammock

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Opening sentence
Hallo Haleyhammock, and welcome to Wikipedia. I've just been having a look at the article you started, now renamed Women's Crusade (3 changes: we use straight apostrophe not curly; we don't include "The" in a title unless it's for something like a book, film, etc where it's really part of the name; and as it's the only article we've got called "Women's Crusade" it doesn't need the dates).

If you look around the encyclopedia you'll see that virtually every article starts in the same way:


 * Topic is/was a ...

or
 * Person ([dates if known]) is/was a [nationality] [occupation].

This is called the "lead". It's important, because anyone looking at a list of hits from Google or Wikipedia's own search will usually see this piece of text, so it needs to tell them what the article is about and why this topic/person is appropriate to have an article in the encyclopedia. I've created a lead sentence for this article - if it's not right, please fix it. Thanks, and Happy Editing! Pam D  09:05, 16 May 2017 (UTC)