User talk:Allthewall4
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[edit]Hello, Allison Wallace and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.
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[edit]Hello, Allison Wallace, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Summarizing sources
[edit]After seeing your edits to Internet meme and its talk page, I took a look at your contributions. Based on your various edits, I think you misunderstand the relationship between sources and content.
Wikipedia articles should summarize what reliable independent sources say about a topic. For example, in your sandbox, you added a ref to a Pacific Standard article. If you really read that article, you'll see that the point it's making is that commercial industries have attempted to use popular Internet memes in TV advertising, but their efforts have been received poorly by viewers. You summarized it as "Memes have traditionally stayed on their traditional medium of the Internet, but can be seen expanding beyond."
I suspect that you're starting with your idea of things to say about something, and then looking for any source you can find to cite. That's backwards. You research a topic, read what the best sources say, and then summarize those sources in the article. Also, when you cite a source, the content that you added should be verifiable in the source.
After your healthcare edit to Internet meme, I think you might find it useful to read WP:OR, particularly the WP:SYNTH section. I see that this is a class assignment for you, so I hope you find this explanation useful. Good luck with your class. Schazjmd (talk) 00:45, 23 November 2022 (UTC)