User talk:Raffiter10

Welcome!
Hello, Raffiter10, 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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Protests against Donald Trump ‎
Hi! I received a little alert that you'd edited the page on Protests against Donald Trump. I wanted to warn you about this, as you need to be extremely careful when editing anything Trump related. Articles concerning him are typically held under sanctions, which means that edits to these articles are scrutinized far more heavily than edits to articles not held under sanctions. This means that you need to be extremely careful and make sure that your additions are neutrally written, contain no point-of-view or opinions, do not contain original research (conclusions made by yourself that aren't explicitly stated in the source material), and have the best possible sourcing. Sanctioned articles tend to be very heavily patrolled and are often the result of a lot of back-and-forth and compromises by the people editing the page, some of whom may have very strong opinions about what should be on the page. If you are using raw data, such as Google Trends, make sure that this is backed up with a reliable source that explicitly states the same claim and that you phrase things very carefully to avoid it coming across as original research.

I hate that this sounds harsh, but sanctioned articles are some of the hardest areas to edit and it's very easy for edits to be reverted. I would highly recommend that if you make further edits to the article, that you make them in small bits and pieces - avoid making one large post, as this can make it more difficult for others to go over the edit and can sometimes cause concern with other editors. Unfortunately they're used to seeing people post large chunks of vandalism or personal speeches to the article, so this always tends to raise an alert with them. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:17, 6 November 2017 (UTC)