User talk:Lisalightner

Hi, Lisalightner. Welcome to Wikipedia! I reverted one of your recent edits and saw that someone else had reverted two others, and I thought you should know why. The links you added to Executive functions and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act went to a commercial site offering services, not to what we call a "reliable source". Wikipedia is an encyclopedia: mainly a summary of what's written in mainstream scholarly secondary sources that have been through some sort of credible editorial review. Was that your own commercial site? If so, you should know that Wikipedia is not for promotion or advocacy of any kind. I know it can be discouraging to have your edits reverted, especially when you're a beginner. I hope you'll stick around and learn how we do things and why, though it can be frustrating at first. The main policy page to read is WP:V. The way to contribute content to an article is to start with a secondary source about the topic and summarize the main facts that it provides, including a reference to the source, explained at WP:CITE. Fixing clumsy wording and bad formatting is always welcome, too, of course; that's how most editors get started. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 03:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)