User talk:Saudibert97

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 * So the above is a general welcome for student editors. More specifically, thanks for creating a graph of the reindeer population crash for the St. Matthew Island article. I'm going to make a couple of changes to clean up the refs and stuff. Also, I had another question: I see that you noted that you based it on the graph here: . It's great that you made this as an SVG so other editors can work with the graphic. I noticed that the shape of your curve is a little different than the one in David Klein's article, and in fact it's closer to the one here which actually seems to be a redrawing of the one from Klein's article. It would be good to make sure that whatever we show in Wikipedia matches the published data. Either the curve should be based on published data points, or if it's smoothed for some reason, it should be based on a specific source that chose to smooth it that way. I guess I'm saying that Wikipedia editors can't make their own decisions about what curve is the best fit for a small number of data points as that would be original research. Post a response here with some info on how you drew the curve and we can see what's the best way to handle this. Cheers. Rupert Clayton (talk) 22:43, 26 May 2016 (UTC)