User talk:MacSwade

Welcome!
Hello, MacSwade, 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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Studies
Hi! I wanted to give you a quick note - when using studies make sure that you have a good secondary reliable source that covers the study that backs up the claim. The reason for this is that the study is a primary source for any of the claims and research created by its authors. The publishing journal doesn't really help resolve this, as they only look for grammar, spelling, and obvious errors that would invalidate the study. Even if the conclusions seem common sense, it still needs that secondary source - especially as gender and sexuality articles are often some of the most controversial ones on Wikipedia, so they undergo a lot of scrutiny and editing back and forth. Google Scholar should help with this. The newer studies may be harder to find citations for, but offhand this seems like the type of thing that should have some sort of secondary coverage. For example, for the Catalpa article I found three sources, despite it only being a few months old. This looks like it should be good. ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡)  15:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * One other note - make sure that the writing is neutral and not coming across like Wikipedia is arguing one point over the other. To help with this, basically just make sure to attribute things as needed. ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡)  15:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi! The above is me - I forgot that I was signed into my main account. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you I am working on these changes MacSwade (talk) 16:25, 20 April 2018 (UTC)