User talk:Rsummers9

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Hello, Rsummers9, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Rsummers9/Pattie Gonia


A tag has been placed on User:Rsummers9/Pattie Gonia, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Pattie Gonia and User:Rsummers9/Pattie Gonia
Eep, I hadn't noticed you were working on an article about Pattie Gonia. Thanks for adding content about the degree, and pronouns.

I noticed your draft has a date of birth; is there a source for that? I found a few sources mentioning current age, which can narow it down to two years, but I didn't find any sources mentioning the specific birth date. It'd be cool if we could add that.

Unsure if you want feedback on the draft, but the main point would be that we generally avoid retelling personal experiences in encyclopedic writing. This specifically refers to the interviews where Wiley talked about their childhood, and inspirations from the environment, etc. Biographical writing is markedly different from encyclopedic writing in this aspect. In such cases, we often use in-text attribution, as you did with "Gonia describes their upbringing as..." and "While Gonia states that they always had an interest in...". This helps avoid retelling personal experiences in an encyclopedic voice while maintaining the subject's description of it, if it is relevant and wouldn't be undue weight for that topic. However, it is rarely relevant.

Anyways, cool article, and I hope you decide to continue contributing to Wikipedia after the course ends :-) Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:59, 28 November 2022 (UTC)