User talk:Ramen.01

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Hello, Ramen.01, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Asexuality
Hi! I saw that you wanted to edit on asexuality - I just wanted to drop some quick notes:


 * Since this deals with sexuality, make sure that you're using the strongest possible sources and writing as neutrally as possible. While this isn't a medical topic per se, it would be a good idea to review this training module just in case.


 * Some of the sourcing you're using in your draft isn't reliable, notably the wiki sources. The issue with wiki sources is that since anyone can edit them (like Wikipedia!) it won't have the type of editorial oversight and verification process needed to be seen as a reliable source on here.


 * You also rely heavily on primary sources. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it's fine to rely on primary sources for basic information such as data results. However where this poses an issue is when it comes to notability, as we need to be able to show where this survey is notable per Wikipedia guidelines and is independently notable outside of the main topic of asexuality as a general topic.
 * What is needed here is coverage in independent, reliable secondary sources that specifically cover the survey. I'm concerned that none of the non-primary sources cover the survey at all and instead focus on the topic of asexuality in general.


 * Avoid using 'we', as Wikipedia uses formal third person. Also, make sure that we're only summarizing what has been written about the survey in reliable sources - if it's not in the source, we can't include it in the article. The reason for this is that we need to make sure to avoid creating original research, by which I mean creating our own conclusions, theories, and ties between sourcing that doesn't explicitly state these claims.

Offhand I'm very concerned that the survey is non-notable (as far as Wikipedia guidelines go), as I can't really find where there's any true non-primary coverage out there. I see where it's been listed as a source occasionally, but not really any in-depth coverage. Sadly this is sort of par for the course with asexuality, as it tends to get overlooked quite frequently when it comes to coverage as a whole. It's gotten better over the last few years, but it's still struggling.

A possibility is to work on another ace topic - The Invisible Orientation could merit its own article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)