User talk:KStansell

Welcome!
Hello, KStansell, 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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Introducing myself
Hi I'm Elise Smith and I'm from New Orleans. I am a biology pre-med major — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elisesmith99 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Children's rights
Hello, I wanted to why I've just removed your addition to Children's rights. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. However, your addition was thick with errors. Some are stylistic conventions such as unnecessary capital letters, which Wikipedia generally avoids. The title of your section should have been in sentence case (capitalization of first word only), with no period. Things like this you can learn from reading more Wikipedia articles, and familiarizing yourself more with the Manual of Style.

There were also many other errors in your text, such as lack of paragraph breaks (for readability), random capital letters, unclear/colloquial phrasing ("doesn't get put on them"), and a use of the word "accusation" which I assume was meant to be "association." Since we work on a collaborative model here, other editors can fix your mistakes, but you should really be trying to make your work as correct as possible before submitting. You may want to ask someone to look over your work before submitting again.

The last problem I need to mention is the most important. Wikipedia aims for a formal, encyclopedic tone, as unbiased as possible. When you start writing about what people "should" do, or stressing what you find important or unimportant about a topic, you have veered too far into personal language. Claims made in an article should be backed up by sources, and should be phrased in a way that makes it clear you are reporting on others' findings, not expressing your own feelings about a topic. Other issues in your work are easily fixable by other editors, but this one is a bit of a dealbreaker, and is ultimately why I removed your text, rather than editing it.

I don't mean to discourage you from adding to Wikipedia - rather, I hope this encourages you to learn more about the site and its practices. Please let me know if I can help with anything. Jessicapierce (talk) 21:09, 14 December 2017 (UTC)