User talk:N8Dab
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[edit]Hello, N8Dab, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi N8Dab. Very nice job creating your article draft. You've done a really good job developing that article, but you might want to take another look at some of your wording - a lot of the article is written in a promotional style (as opposed to the more neutral style you'd expect in an encylopaedia article) and uses a lot of business jargon. For example, the article begins
Smart manufacturing is a broad category of idealized manufacturing optimized for agile and efficient concept generation, production, and product transaction.
Language like "optimized for agile and efficient concept generation" has some problems. For example, you say that smart manufacturing processes are optimized; is that really the case that all or almost all of what's described as "smart manufacturing" involves processes that have truly been optimized? Or is optimization a goal of smart manufacturing? "Agile" is also a slightly problematic word; although it's widely used in these sorts of contexts, it is (a) jargon (which should be avoided) and (b) a metaphor. Processes aren't agile - they don't have the ability to run and leap. To someone unfamiliar with the jargon, that word could be very confusing. Keep an eye out for language that would be confusing to the average reader, and words that mean something different in plain English; try to replace them with more straightforward phrasing.
That said, you did a really nice job. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:53, 7 March 2016 (UTC)