User talk:Shinamom

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Hello, Shinamom, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:50, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi there!

Hey there Shinamom, I saw your edits on the article about Itō Noe and I wanted to thank you for your work!

I have a couple of comments about how I think you could improve your editing, based on your existing work.

• I've noticed that you tend to mark edits as minor, even when they add or remove significant amounts of content. Help:Minor edit could help to explain how that system works. It's always safer not to mark an edit as minor when in doubt, because that will help other editors to see what they need to review your edits or not.
• The Itō Noe has several extremely long paragraphs. That's a good sign, since you're adding a lot of material! However, as WP:Paragraph points out, it might be a little difficult to parse for readers as is, so I advise breaking up these sections into shorter paragraphs.
• Some material, such as the Time with Seitō section, has very few or no citations at all. As Wikipedia:Citing sources points out, any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged needs to be cited.
• One more thing, which I've learned recently myself, is that it is often neater (and easier!) to use the sfn and citation templates when writing footnotes. If you want such an example, look at the Kōtoku Shūsui article that I have recently edited myself.

Thank you for your participation in Wikipedia, and don't feel bad about these points. We all learn by being bold here. The full Manual of Style contains a lot of advice if you ever just want to check that sort of thing. And, of course, feel free to message me on my talk page if you want to ask me a question! Sparkledriver (talk) 22:32, 10 July 2020 (UTC)