User talk:Bwiffen1234
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:15, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Afghanistan[edit]
Hi - I wanted to let you know that your edits to the article were reverted by Moxy, with the edit summary note that the contribution wasn't ready yet to move live. I have some notes about this:
- The contributions are entirely unsourced - all content must be backed up with a reliable source that explicitly backs up the claims. It looks like there are some in your sandbox, however it doesn't look like they back up all of the claims. Another issue is that some of the sourcing looks to be studies, which must be accompanied by a secondary, independent reliable source that covers it.
- Studies are problematic because they're primary sources for any of the claims and research created by their authors. They're also very limited out of necessity, as organizations in general lack the time, funding, and energy needed to interview every person that would fit into their study parameters. For example, this study looks at mental health and surveys 1011 children (age 11–16) and 1011 adult caregivers in a school-based study. The issue here is that even if this was randomized, it won't give a complete view of the population as it only surveys children and adults who belong to the school system. There are still those who are unable to attend school for whatever reason, so this doesn't really represent those individuals and any information they would get about them would be second hand and thus, potentially incorrect since it would all be anecdotal. There's also the issue of verification, as the publishers don't reproduce the study - they only review it to make sure that there are no glaring errors that would instantly invalidate the study.
- This training module goes over the use of studies as sourcing. It deals with medical topics, however the content about studies would still hold valid in general.
- Some of the content comes across as original research, which is exacerbated by the lack of sourcing. Make sure that you are only summarizing what is explicitly stated in the source material. This is especially important with articles on controversial topics like Afghanistan.
- This was added after the section on education in Afghanistan, which poses a bit of an issue here for a few reasons. The first is that introducing a new section could be seen as a bit redundant to the existing section on education. The second is that since there is an existing article on education in Afghanistan, content this detailed should really be placed in that article instead. The article on the country should only have a brief overview of the material in the main article on the specific topic.
My recommendation is that you work on these issues and look to see what could be added to the main article on education. Just make sure that it fits Wikipedia's style and sourcing guidelines. I highly recommend reviewing articles such as Education in the Faroe Islands and Education in Medieval Scotland to see how those articles are written and formatted. Those are at Good Article status, so they're considered to be among the best on Wikipedia. Articles in the B range can still be helpful as general guides, so you may also want to review Education in Israel, Education in the United States, and Education in Germany. Even if the country is very different culturally from Afghanistan, the general outline and adherence to the guidelines mentioned above would still be useful as a guidance tool. Whatever you do, do not re-add this content to the main article without first discussing this at the main page, as the content was challenged and as such, should not be re-added without discussion. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)