User talk:Anonymouswisebird

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Hello, Anonymouswisebird, 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) 16:36, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Barn owl article

I noticed that you recently expanded the barn owl article. When you assigned yourself that article on the Dashboard, you should have received an email letting you know that the barn owl article was a Featured Article, one of Wikipedia's best. If you choose to work on an FA, you need to pay attention to the Featured article criteria. At minimum, you need to fix the section header capitalization (only capitalize the first word and any proper nouns) and place your references after punctuation, not before.

The tone of your writing is too casual for an encyclopaedia article, and it doesn't fit well with the rest of the article. All the part of a Wikipedia article should read like a cohesive whole, and that's especially important in a Featured Article. For example, your Rodent consumption section duplicates information that's already in the Hunting and feeding, while the information in the "Use on farms" and "cost effectiveness" should be incorporated into the "alternative rodent control" section so that it all meshes as part of a cohesive whole.

Beyond that, you need to make sure that you're using the best available sources. While Sierra Magazine isn't a terrible source, it's far from peer reviewed science. The Green Blog from UC ANR is similarly borderline. I'm not even sure what the "Owls" article is - it seems to be clipped from another magazine and hosted on raptorsarethesolution.org.

Get in touch with me if you need more assistance. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:05, 3 December 2021 (UTC)