User talk:Maddylyman

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Welcome!
Hello, Maddylyman, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Sourcing for the article on France and the World Bank
Hi @Maddylyman, I checked out your edits for the France and the World Bank article, and have some feedback on the sourcing. Since the topic of the article is the World Bank, then it's not appropriate to use them as a reliable source when writing about the WB itself. This means your writing for Wikipedia needs to summarize what independent, reliable, secondary sources have said about a topic, so that a Wikipedia reader can get a balanced, neutral overview of the current thoughts and understanding of that topic. The balanced point of view is especially important in this case bc if you take a look, the World Bank has its set of controversies.

Remember, the goal is to provide a neutral, fact based summary of the topic at hand based off the reliable sources you've found. I suggest you check out this training module for a refresher on what's an acceptable source, and find 3 - 5 reliable sources to support all of the text in the article. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Looping in @Bergmanucsd. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)