User talk:Melanierobertson

This user is a student editor in University_of_Dayton/Writing_Seminar_I_(Fall_2022) .

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Hey! I noticed your edit to Alan Sieler, where it appears you're trying to provide a resource for others to use. These kinds of messages go on the talk page of an article. I've moved your message to the talk page of Alan Sieler for you, but make sure you're doing the same in the future. For help on how to use talk pages, please read Help:Talk pages. If you have any other questions on how to start editing Wikipedia, you can ask the lovely people over at the WP:Teahouse. Thanks! ― Levi_OP^Talk 16:33, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:20, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits[edit]

Hi, Melanierobertson! You added a lot of stuff to our article on Dog, and I removed it as unencyclopaedic. At that point, if you disagree with my assessment, your next step is to start a discussion on the talk-page. Instead, you added back the same (or very similar) content with a series of edits. That's a mistake – simply re-adding the same stuff again is not going to make it stick (and yes, it's already been removed again).

I see that you are a student editor. I don't want to be inhospitable or discouraging, but the chances of an editor with little or no experience or understanding of editing Wikipedia making any substantial improvement to a high-profile general article such as Dog are ... well, not good. Your course instructor should of course have told you this. You could try making some tiny nerdy improvements to that page (a comma added here or removed there, for example), or you could choose an obscure dog page with relatively few page views and try adding something significant to that (you presumably have the advantage of extensive access to sound academic sources, as most of us do not). Ian (Wiki Ed), please correct me if I'm wrong here, but it looks to me as if this editor has embarked on a voyage to nowhere, presumably as a consequence of the usual inadequate preparation by the class instructor. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:39, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Justlettersandnumbers I've sent the instructor a note asking them to remind the class about a number of issues.

@Melanierobertson, please rememeber that you're not supposed to engage in edit warring. If someone reverts your additions, you need to figure out what the problem is and resolve it before making further edits to the article. And, of course, you need to remember that you are you contributing to an encyclopaedia article. This is formal writing with a neutral tone. For starters, the dog article is the wrong place to add this level of detail to the main article about the topic.

In addition, if you're writing about the mental health benefits of dogs, you need to take the Editing health and psychology topics training. Health-related topics require higher source quality than most Wikipedia articles; in particular, you need to use recent review articles, not individual studies like you did here.

I think some of this information might go in the Emotional support animal, Assistance dog or Psychiatric assistance dog. But it need to be supported by appropriate sources, and written in a style that's appropriate for an encyclopaedia article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:05, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]