User talk:Kendracasey

Welcome!
Hello, Kendracasey, 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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Reference question
Hi. To re-use a reference, please see this page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 05:52, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Feedback
Make sure that your lead section summarised all the major points of the article, and that it doesn't contain any information that isn't in the body of the article. For example, you say

but I can't find mention of necropsies or owner-reported behaviour in the body of the article. If it's in the lead, it must be in the body of the article.

You shouldn't include information about diet that isn't specific to cognitive support. For example

isn't specific to the topic. You should just link to whatever section of the cat or cat food article discusses this

You should avoid writing about the findings of single research studies. How does this compare to the broader body of research? Was it typical? Was it atypical? Was it the only study ever done? This is why Wikipedia articles are supposed to be based on secondary sources (review articles) or tertiary ones (like textbooks) because they are written by experts who have (presumably) looked at the literature in context. Picking one study and presenting it without context runs big risks of cherrypicking.

In addition, your section headers should not to capitalised. Only proper nouns should be capitalised. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)