User talk:Anonymr

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Hello, Anonymr, 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) 13:28, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! Your draft looks great - I did do a bit of editing to the bibliography section since it had a lot of links to other websites in it as hotlinks. Wikipedia is a bit particular when it comes to linking to other places and in most cases, it tends to prefer that editors not link to other sources within the article. We can use them as sources, but in general they shouldn't be hotlinked. I also removed the hotlink for the Cabell First Novelist Award. On a side note, this needs to be mentioned in the overall awards and honors section, since the others in the lead are as well. These are more small tweaks and I think that overall you're ready to start moving your work live. Other than that, my only notes would be to keep looking for sourcing so you can continue to flesh out the article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:05, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Minor versus regular edits

Hi and welcome! A small note on how to mark your edits--you can read the policy in depth here if you like, but in short, "minor" edits are ones that no one would ever disagree with. Obvious spell errors, italicizing a book title if someone forgot, that sort of thing. Otherwise you can and should just leave them as regular edits. I know that feels odd, since plenty of edits you'll be making won't feel "major"! The main difference it makes is that some people filter their watchlists to exclude minor edits, and won't see and have a chance to review changes marked that way, so it's an important point of community trust to only use that designation if you're really not changing anything anyone else might do differently. Thanks much! Innisfree987 (talk) 07:35, 18 December 2018 (UTC)