User talk:Jelizalde1

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Hello, Jelizalde1, 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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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Jelizalde1/College expenses: Incoming Students


A tag has been placed on User:Jelizalde1/College expenses: Incoming Students requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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College expenses: Incoming Students
Jelizalde1,, , I'm sorry, but this article isn't appropriate for Wikipedia as it's written like a student essay rather than an encyclopedia article. I've moved it to Jelizalde1's userspace at User:Jelizalde1/College expenses: Incoming Students in the hopes that some of it may be reworked and used elsewhere, however I do note that it's been marked for speedy deletion. I wanted to give an explanation as to why this happened.

The main thing is that this is written in a persuasive style that uses your own personal research to further a point, namely that college is expensive. While I can personally testify that it is (boy is it!), an encyclopedia article should not be written in a way that leads the reader to view things in a particular way. Original research must be avoided as well, as Wikipedia can only have claims that have been explicitly made by an authority in a reliable source. You should also avoid writing to people directly via statements like "you should" or "you can" and you should also be careful about not taking a global perspective on matters - things that may be the norm in a European or North American setting may not be the norm elsewhere.

It's possible that there could be an article on the expenses of higher education or at least a subsection somewhere, however this content would have to be completely re-worked and re-written to be suitable for Wikipedia. As a student essay it's not bad, it just doesn't fit Wikipedia's guidelines. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:54, 7 August 2017 (UTC)