User talk:Jrjohnso37

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Hello, Jrjohnso37, 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.

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Hi. Nice work on your draft. This feedback applies specifically to the Government polices and initiatives section.

When you copied that page into your sandbox, you copied the text on the page, not the formatting. To copy things properly, you need to click the "edit" button before you copy the text you want to move.

I simplified your main section header, and fixed the capitalization in all of the sections. Section headers are supposed to use "sentence capitalization', not 'title capitalization' - only proper nouns should be capitalized.

You should add links to terms that the average reader may not be familiar with, and only use quotation marks for quotes. So instead of "Net Metering" you should say net metering, which takes a reader who wants to know more to the appropriate Wikipedia article.

You need to make sure that the information in the article is specific to the topic. You should say more about the Indiana-specific aspects of it, and less that's general.

References should appear immediately after the statements they support. There should be a minimum of one reference per paragraph, and there shouldn’t be any text after the last reference in a paragraph. Right now, only the last section has a source attached to it.

Wikipedia articles should be based, for the most part, on independent, third-party sources. The American Wind Energy Association and the Indiana Office of Energy Development aren't neutral third parties here. Their positions are important components of this article, for sure, but they shouldn't be the only voices represented. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:32, 11 October 2017 (UTC)