User talk:Jackburke91

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Marion Donovan
As a note regarding Marion Donovan, I don't mean to be discouraging, but I'll be honest, I think this older revision was fine. Subsequent edits by the anonymous editor at IP address 2601:197:700:2a70:9da4:b986:be52:9f7b made a bit of a mess, losing structure and all the references in in the Early life and education section; I would have simply reverted those instead of working to improve it as you did. You did use references (Good! You always should!), but I noticed a few of them were misdirected, such as At the factory, Donovan would learn under the wing of her father and uncle, watching as they invented the industrial lathe used for grinding car gears and gun barrels being cited to Emily Matchar at the Smithsonian Magazine, which does not mention such a detail. In other words, the citation fails to support the material, and is misleading. This violates text-source integrity. Mistakes happen, but do be careful to cite sources that actually support the article text they follow. There was also some messy grammar and formatting. For example, citation footnotes go after the punctuation; see MOS:CITEPUNCT for the full explanation. And please try to maintain an encyclopedic writing style.

I've taken material you added and worked it back into the earlier version of the article. I would suggest making smaller changes to articles first while you get more experience with editing Wikipedia. Let me know if you have any questions – you may do so here, or on my user talk page, or anywhere on Wikipedia simply by linking my username, i.e. User:Anon423. You can also get help at the Teahouse as mentioned above. – Anon423 (talk) 16:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)