User talk:Kimcastillo

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Hello, Kimcastillo, 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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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review of De'VIA Article

Hello, I wanted to let you know that I added a Peer Review of the De'VIA article. Jennagc (talk) 00:44, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Draft

Hi! I wanted to give you some notes on your draft:

• This needs more sourcing to back up claims and establish notability. I know that the article itself had issues with sourcing, so it's definitely important that the strongest possible sources are used in your draftwork that you will move live. Academic and scholarly sources will be the strongest. Something like this, a book put out by an academic publisher, would be good to use, as would this.

Of the current sourcing, this source is a self-published blog source (as it's published by WordPress). What this means is that you shouldn't use the source to back up claims in the article unless it's routinely cited as a reliable source by other reliable sources. I think you use this primary source in the article. That's fine to use, however I wouldn't use any content that is original to the blog unless you can show where the blog is a reliable source, however.

• Make sure that the writing is as neutral as possible and is free of subjective language. Anything that could come across as a personal opinion should either be attributed to a specific person/source (ie, According to...) or removed.

• The works section needs to be sourced with content that explicitly states that these paintings are particularly noteworthy and where they're considered as falling into this specific genre. It may seem like splitting hairs, but it's definitely important as otherwise it can be seen as original research.

I hope that this helps! On a side note, I absolutely love that whale painting! I wish it was available as a print... (I looked as soon as I saw it!) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:48, 28 March 2019 (UTC)