User talk:Lia7x

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Hello, Lia7x, 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) 14:48, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

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Hi! I saw that you posted to my talk page - did you have any questions? I did add a book article template to your sandbox, if that helps any! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:58, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Sandbox work

Hi, I saw that you posted content again to my user page - I think that the intent was to have me review the work and leave you notes, so here are my notes:

• I moved the work to User:Lia7x/Drawing Autism, so this is where you should make any edits from here on out as far as your draft goes.

• Sourcing needs to be in-line, meaning that the source needs to be formatted and placed behind the sentence or paragraph it's sourcing. Instructions on how to do this are in this training module. This video series about editing may also be helpful - the one I linked to covers adding sourcing.

• This needs more sourcing from places that are independent of the book, its author, and the publisher, as well as anyone affiliated with the author, in other words, non-primary sources. Primary sources are ones written by someone who is involved with the topic, person, or item. So for example, the book would be a primary source to itself, as would anything written by the author or put out by the publisher. So would something written by a friend of the author or another person who puts out work through the publisher.

What is needed here are things like book reviews and articles written about the book that are published in places like academic and scholarly journals or newspapers. We can use primary sources for some things, like basic information, but the majority of sources should be independent sourcing. I've added some, but it could still use more.

• Keep in mind that we can only summarize what has been written about the book. So for example, if the author states within the book that art is sometimes the only way that people on the spectrum can communicate their thoughts and experiences, then we can include that in the article. If it's not included - or if this isn't mentioned elsewhere in relation to the book - then we cannot put it in the article. The themes section needs to be source - I found a source, but it doesn't entirely cover the claims. It's also important to try to be as neutral as possible - I can help with this.

I hope that this helps - let me know if you have any questions. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:54, 11 December 2019 (UTC)