User talk:Suffrage100wa/sandbox

feedback
Hi Nice work so far! I have a few suggestions that will help you on your way as you work towards publishing this brand new article, how exciting!
 * For consistency, I'd recommend retitling to "Women's suffrage in Washington". That would make it more consistent and easily groupable with other similar articles, such as Women's suffrage in the United States and Women's suffrage in Utah.
 * I noticed that your references don't appear to be "real references". To review on how to add citations to your article, please review this slide of our training.
 * Sentence and reference format on Wikipedia goes like this: Sentence[period][citation][space]Sentence. I noticed that your placeholder references are before the punctuation, not after it. This will be a really easy thing to fix as you go through and add the citations correctly.
 * Section titles are not bolded, so you can remove that formatting to make it just plain ol' text
 * In a similar vein, section titles are in sentence case, not title case, so you only capitalize the first word and any proper nouns. So instead of "Susan B. Anthony Lectures in Washington Territory (1871)", you would have "Susan B. Anthony lectures in Washington Territory (1871)" as "lectures" is not a proper noun, but the remaining words are. "Women Vote in School Meeting Elections (1877)" becomes "Women vote in school meeting elections (1877)" as none of those words are proper nouns
 * I've added a reference section. Once you start adding references, they will be populated in this section automatically, which is pretty nifty
 * So far, you've included some links, but I think you could have more. The section "Emma Smith DeVoe and the 'Still Hunt'" doesn't have any links, for example. Links are important because they help readers easily navigate between related topics--we call this "building the tree of knowledge" across the site
 * The section "Washington’s First Women Legislators" also doesn't include any links
 * I like the timeline! It seems really comprehensive so far, though of course you will need to cite these events
 * I am unfamiliar with Washington suffrage, but I wonder if the suffrage timeline should extend further? Obviously in the Southern states, there were barriers for women of color to vote for long time after the 19th amendment, so a timeline in Georgia or Alabama would likely include the dismantling of those policies. Did Washington State have any discriminatory policies against African-American women or Native American women?

Let me know if you have any questions about this feedback so far! I'm here to help :) Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:55, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

feedback part 2
Hi I see you're still working on this article. I made a few minor formatting changes to help you along--
 * I removed the bold from the section titles
 * I fixed the capitalization of the section titles
 * I made the section titles less redundant with the article title

Things that still need to be addressed:
 * I still see some "dummy" refs that aren't actually references. The actual citation notation leaves a hyperlink. It should be blue and clickable, essentially. Here are the refs that are just superscripts, not actual refs.
 * and the first in the 20th century to pass women's suffrage in 1910[1].
 * Some postulate that Blaine and her husband may have influenced Denny's support of suffrage[2].
 * References go after punctuation. So it should be something like this "Wikipedia is fun. " not "Wikipedia is fun . This is really easy to fix. In editing mode, click the bracketed ref and drag it to after the punctuation.


 * I see a lot of uncited content. It is a red flag for a section or a paragraph to end without a citation.
 * You need more citations in the "Pre-statehood" section
 * the first half of the "Susan B. Anthony lectures" section is well-cited, but the second half lacks citations
 * no citations in the "Women vote in school meeting elections" section
 * no citations in the "Emma Smith DeVoe and the “Still Hunt”" section
 * no citations in the "First women legislators" section
 * no citations in the "Timeline of women’s suffrage" section


 * I think the citation issue should be your number one priority. Uncited information on Wikipedia is at risk of being deleted for being unverifiable. Let me know if you have questions or need assistance Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)