User talk:Marycneal

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 * Hi Marycneal! This is Aleong809! Thanks for leaving a message on my talk page! See you soon, too! :) Aleong809 (talk) 02:14, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Marycneal, 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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About your contribution
I realize you've put much work into First-generation college students in the United States and I respect people who are contributing to Wikipedia, and who are trying to learn the ropes, but I just wanted to make you aware that the article looks pretty much like original research based mostly on primary sources (Wikipedia prefers secondary sources) and it may get deleted as such. May I suggest? Make a backup copy of it and copy-paste to one of your sandbox pages in case it gets put up for deletion; that way you have a backup for use with your coursework via your university. What would be a good idea is to bolster the current article by adding sources which really talk about the subject as a subject -- ideally checkable sources with the words "first generation" and "college" preferably in the title -- try googling using the "news" filter possibly with those terms in the browser bar; then add those sources to the lede paragraph. I'm just counseling from experience; way back, I've written huge articles, only to have them get deleted. If you need my help, let me know.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)