User talk:MelissaH.2701TD

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Hello, MelissaH.2701TD, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, or you can  to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! We are so glad you are here! Sadads (talk) 13:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
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MelissaH.2701TD (talk) 12:29, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, MelissaH.2701TD and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.

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 * Hi! Can you have your instructor email us at contact@undefinedwikiedu.org? We can help out with the class - it's all free as well! In the meantime, we have some resources here (training modules} and here (a brochure that goes over editing book articles) that would definitely be of help!
 * With the work, the main thing is that it looks like the work is based on your own interpretation of the book, which is considered to be original research. On Wikipedia we can only summarize what has been explicitly stated about the book in the article itself. We're fairly limited on here as to what we can do. Here's an example of something: an author writes about a sunset in their book. The sunset is clearly meant to be symbolic of something else and even be very obvious exactly what it is abpit, but unless we have a source that specifically states what the symbolism is, all we can say is that it's a sunset. The source can be the author themselves stating that this is the symbolism of the scene in an afterword or a review of the book in a reliable source discussing this, but without those we can only say "there is a sunset". I hope this description and the resources help! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:05, 5 July 2019 (UTC)