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Indigenous Science article draft
Lisa, you've done a marvelous job with the draft. I am confident it can be turned into a quality wikipedia article. Its needs a bit of modification and you clearly have the editing skills to make the needed changes. I'll work through it carefully and outline some of the thing that you should do in the next day or two. (am currently in the middle of a business trip so time is limited). As a start you should review WP:MOS an particularly WP:LEAD. They should give you some clues as to what needs changing. Also,. even though your references are extensive, it would be use to turn them into inline citations where they apply throughout the article WP:CITE.

Also, I have one overarching question. Is this article about all Indigenous Science (global) or just U.S. Indigenous Science? The answer might inform us as to what the best title should be. I'll get back with you in couple of days. --Mike Cline (talk) 21:54, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Lisa, I’ve been going through your Indigenous science article and compiling this as a random list of ideas and to-do list. There may be more to follow.
 * The article needs a lead paragraph that clearly summarizes the key points in the article. Please look at WP:LEAD to see how this is done.  Once you write the lead, then we can see where substantive changes are needed in the article.
 * I don’t think indigenous science is a formal noun so it shouldn’t be capitalized except when it starts a sentence. When we go live, I think the article name will be ‘’’Indigenous science’’’
 * Don’t repeat Indigenous Science: in every section heading unless is absolutely necessary—for example: ‘’Indigenous Science: Common Characteristics’’ should be Common characteristics while ‘’Indigenous science versus western or reductive science’’ is OK. In section headings, only capitalize the first word unless the word is or is part of a proper noun.
 * All section heading use ==, ===, or ==== delimiters. Don’t use just one =
 * Don’t use wikilinks in section headings
 * Again, try and use your reference list to attribute specific information in the article with in-line citations.


 * Make these changes and we’ll see where we are and what needs doing next.

--Mike Cline (talk) 19:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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