User talk:Shelbyrae16

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Hello, Shelbyrae16, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia 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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Ecology
Hi. I undid your addition to the ecology article because there were problems with the tone and sourcing of what you wrote

Moving forward, please make sure that what you are writing is supported by citations, that it's specifically focussed on the topic of the article, and that it's well-written. Please get in touch with User:Elysia (Wiki Ed) is you run into problems. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 03:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * A Wikipedia article is supposed to describe what reliable, secondary sources have to say about a topic. They shouldn't speak to their readers. If you're using the first person (I, or we) or second person (you) in your writing, you're probably getting the tone wrong. Similarly, if you're saying "helps us understand" you aren't getting the tone right for an encyclopedia article.
 * Make sure that what you're writing is about the topic itself. You're talking about taxonomic classification, and their importance in terms of communicating consistently. This isn't about ecology, and doesn't belong on this page.
 * Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be supported by high-quality sources that actually support the statements you're making. Your first reference doesn't support the statements before it - it's just a dictionary definition of taxonomy. (In a case like this, you should link to the taxonomy (biology) article, not a dictionary, which generally isn't an appropriate source for Wikipedia.
 * Similarly, your second reference doesn't support the 3.5 sentences that precede it.
 * The ecology article is a Good Article - that means that it's one of the best articles on Wikipedia. While it's always important to write well on Wikipedia, it's especially important to get it right when it's a Good or Featured Article. There are missing words and problems with subject-verb agreement in your edits.