User talk:SamKelsey

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Hello, SamKelsey, 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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Transphobia
Hi! I made some tweaks to the content you added to transphobia. The main thing that I changed was to remove some of the studies you posted. Be extremely careful with studies, as these are considered to be primary sources for their research and conclusions unless they are reporting on other people's work, as seems to be the case with the Stotzer source. Here are some of the reasons why studies should be used very carefully:


 * Basically, we can't absolutely confirm that the data is accurate. It likely is, but it's best if it's confirmed by way of it getting covered in another academic article.
 * In many cases studies are conducted with extremely small groups of participants, which means that we can't really use them to generalize about a wider population. For example, one of the studies was about transgender people in the state of Virginia - the results from this study may be accurate for the people they surveyed, however we can't guarantee that it's accurate for all transgender people. The average age of sexual violence survivors may be different for another state or country.


 * At some level this is a matter of original research since we're picking which studies we're including over others, so it's possible another editor could question why one study was chosen and even say that it was chosen in order to back up our idea of what should be in the article. This can also extend to how much one study is mentioned over another.

This doesn't mean that we can't mention studies, just that the studies should be covered in a secondary source. Of course if the study has a literature review that covers prior studies and publications, we can use that literature review as a source - just not the data that follows. Part of the reason that we need to be so careful about this is because we want to make sure that this is neutral but also because this specific article (transphobia) is under sanctions, which means that content is more likely to be more closely scrutinized than other works and as such, content can be easily challenged and removed. If this happens in general with all of your text, make sure that you do not re-add the content without discussing the content's removal with the other editor and/or on the article's talk page, in order to get a consensus that it should be re-added. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:17, 14 November 2017 (UTC)