User talk:KPeprah112

Welcome!
Hello, KPeprah112, 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.

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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:32, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Article choice
Hi! I saw that you chose the article on female genital mutilation for your assignment. I wanted to give you a warning about the page. This page is a featured article and is also held under sanctions. A featured article (FA) is an article that is considered to be the best possible article on Wikipedia - the cream of the cream of the crop, as it's considered to be very comprehensive, neutral, and well-sourced. Sanctions basically mean that the article falls within a topic that is very controversial on Wikipedia and as such, is very closely watched. With either one, any contributions will need to be extremely well written and sourced. You would also need to review the talk page closely and discuss any potential changes there.

What this basically means is that contributing to this article is going to be far more difficult than with others, as you will have to find something that isn't covered, discuss whether or not it should be on the article on the talk page, then write and source the contribution. Prior to adding it, it would be good to bring it back up on the talk page, as additions to articles that are FA or sanctioned are often more closely monitored and as such, would be held more closely to the guidelines than others. If anything seems like it isn't correct, it will be removed. This doesn't mean that you can't edit the article, but I do think that it would be easier for your project if you were to choose an article needing more work than this one. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:13, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I came here to say what Shalor has eloquently explained. The real problem will be what reliable sources are used because compatible statistics on this topic are particularly hard to find. For example, a study somewhere might talk about what was found in a couple of places in Indonesia. However, the methods used to obtain the results are almost certainly totally different from methods used for the majority of the data in the article, so adding an extra study might give a misleading result. The article focuses on using UNICEF data for that reason because they pay particular attention to gaining worldwide information. You might be better off working on one of the related pages, see Category:Female genital mutilation. Johnuniq (talk) 01:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)