User talk:SophieSarahCarr

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Hemingway edits
Hi SophieSarahCarr - I'm happy to see you working on one on the Hemingway short story articles. It's important that we use reliable sources to verify the information we add to articles. Some tips can be found in the welcome information above. Also please don't hesitate to ask me questions about formatting and things like that. You can either place questions here on this page, or come to my page by clicking the "talk" link at the end of my signature. You can also put questions on the article talkpage. I've watched all of those places. Thanks. Truthkeeper (talk) 01:59, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Another thing - I had to remove the link to the story because it was deadlink. But we generally don't put things like that in the lead. You can read that link to see how a lead is written, but it's basically writing an introduction with your main points. To see how one of these stories should be done please have a look at Indian Camp. Also could you please point out the Indian Camp article to your professor in class so you all can look at as a class to see how it's done. Thanks a lot. Truthkeeper (talk) 02:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Cat in the Rain
I've removed some of the empty sections and incomplete sentences from the work you did on Cat in the Rain; since readers may look at an article at any moment, it's better not to leave empty or incomplete work in a article unless you're working on it right at that moment. You might find it more productive to work in a sandbox, which looks like an article but isn't visible to the general encyclopedia readership, until you have your work ready to go into the main article. If you want to do that, put a note here and I'll show you how.

I'd also like to get in contact with your teacher -- can you let me know where the class is being taught and who the teacher is? Or ask your teacher to leave a note on my talk page. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:51, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Sophie, it's really important not to copy from one article to another without providing attribution as I've done. Please give a chance to fix the references before you make anymore edits. Mike and I are trying to help, and it's important in a collaborative project like this for people to respond to messages. Can you please either respond here or on the article talkpage? You're doing a good job, but a few things need to be fixed and I'm willing to help. Thanks. Truthkeeper (talk) 02:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've responded on my page. You can either respond there or here. Whichever you'd like. Do you understand how I added an edit summary so that we can see that it was copied from one page to another? Truthkeeper (talk) 03:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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September 2013
Hello, SophieSarahCarr. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Hillsdale College, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. – S. Rich (talk) 20:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)