User talk:Smchan2018

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Hello, Smchan2018, 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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March 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Romanticism in evolution theory. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 06:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Romanticism in evolution theory
Hi Smchan2018. These comments refer to your article Romanticism in evolution theory Since you're a fairly new editor, please review policies on Original research and Improper synthesis of published work. You may also benefit from Advice for student editors. Unlike most collegiate writing, an encyclopedia article is not the place to interpret or synthesize existing work and reach novel conclusions. At Wikipedia, we seek to summarize existing research, adhering as close as as possible to a neutral point of view. The best way to improve this article would be to draw more heavily from, and cite much more frequently, sources that directly and explicitly address the topic. Note how the majority of references in the article Romanticism in science are sources that are directly about Romanticism in science, not scientist biographies or tangential definitions. You might consider using such sources to improve this article. Other observations: This article contains a lot of unnecessary tangents (e.g. brief biographical backgrounds), stay on topic. Pairing primary sources such as poems with statements like "The idea of looking back in the past was a major theme of the Romantic period" citing a source that does not directly comment on the poem is a form of improper synthesis: combining two sources to reach a conclusion not explicitly present in either. Primary sources should be used sparingly, per WP:PRIMARY. There are currently a lot of uncited statements in the article: inline citations should be added whenever it is unclear where the material is coming from, see When you must use inline citations and Citation density for guidelines. If you have additional questions, you might try the Help Desk or contacting your Wiki Education Foundation ambassador. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 21:08, 8 March 2018 (UTC)