User talk:Zml1716

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Hello, Zml1716, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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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Welcome
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. The Wilson article is on my watchlist, and so you got my attention. I took a look at your sandboxed first effort, and had some preliminary comments.

Your prose is at a suitable level for inclusion, and the representation of his ideas seems pretty well accurate, but you have given no indication of which sources your statements are based upon. This has to be done, as early as possible, so that you don't inadvertently drift into what Wikipedians call Original research. Not that we don't appreciate it, it's just that it has no place on Wikipedia; this is not a publisher of original thought. Editors here are mostly pseudonymous, so we can't expect readers to take us at our word without substantiation. Citing sources is what makes our articles credible, and as a bonus, it helps other collaborating editors to further improve the work.

There are many ways to cite, some better than others, but the critical thing is to do so. It also has the purpose of giving due credit to the prior authors upon whose shoulders we stand: nobody wants to be a plagiarist, especially not by accident. We most certainly would not want to have copyright infringements. If it becomes necessary to quote a text, please make sure that it is clear to the reader, either through quotation marks or other legible indication and in-text attribution.

Again, welcome, and I look forward to seeing your work develop. LeadSongDog come howl!  18:41, 26 February 2016 (UTC)