Talk:Volleyball drills

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Briana Caffee. Peer reviewers: Siobhanmdowling.

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@Briana Caffee: Greetings! This is off to a solid start.

• Check out WP:LEDE and try to work on the very front of your article so that it's written with a clear and encyclopedic introduction. Usually there's a sentence that says "Volleyball drills are specialized sets of practices that..." or something like that.
• Your references are hard for me to check clearly because they aren't formatted according using the Wikipedia formatting. Check out Help:Referencing for beginners for some ideas on how to do htis.
• There are a bunch of issues with basic wiki formatting in your article. Check out Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting, Help:Cheatsheet for some more details on how to do this.
• You have many links to the Vollyball article when referring to particular areas. I don't understand what you are trying to do here.
• You only have references to two external websites other than Wikipedia. You need to find descriptions of the subject in reliable sources (e..g, books, newspapers, magazines, etc) to establish notability.

Once you have made changes to address this (especially the final point) I think this will be ready to move. Good luck! —mako๛ 22:58, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Briana Caffee:

• I think your article is great! I only made a few edits on a little format and grammatical error. You did a great job.
• One small suggestion I have is to maybe simplify some of your explanations of the drills. I just noticed some sentences are a little redundant, not that this is a major issue, but could make it a little easier to read for non volleyball players.
• I thought your tone was objective and correct and that you had sufficient sources to back up your information.
• Great job, I enjoyed reading about these drills and reminiscing on the days that I used to participate in them when I was younger!

Amyabsa (talk) 04:09, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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@Briana Caffee: Hi there! Your article is currently very comprehensive and explains everything in depth. The only things that I went ahead and added were the categories at the bottom of the page, and I spent some time linking this page into other articles. For instance, there is now a link to this drill page from the volleyball article, the volleyball 1on1 article, the volleyball spiking article, the "pepper" volleyball article, and an article that is about Michigan State's Men's volleyball club. This makes it so the article is no longer an "orphan" according to Wikipedia and it will, hopefully, increase the traffic to your page!

A few things I believe could be improved are:

-Incorporating more references for each drill pattern. This would establish more notability, as Mako suggested, and it would also show that multiple sources describe the drill in generally the same way. -Linking words to other articles on Wikipedia (for example the word "digging" can be linked to the page volleyball jargon which states what "digging" is). -This is a less important note, but because there are other pictures of volleyball on Wikipedia already (so you would not have to gain permission) it might be fun to include some of these pictures into your own article!

Good luck, and keep up the good work!

-Siobhanmdowling (talk) 00:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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