Eadams20
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editHello, Eadams20, 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) 15:56, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Controversial articles
editHi! I wanted to give you a little head's up about controversial articles. You haven't done anything wrong - if anything, it looks like you did exactly the right thing, as you added a high quality scholarly source to a part of the article on creation science to a place that needed one. My only note about the source itself would be that you should always note the specific page(s) you're using to source the claim. This makes it easier for people to find the claim if they wanted. You posted on the talk page afterwards to let people know what you did, which is a good move on articles like this - good job!
In any case, the reason I'm posting is mostly to give you a little forewarning about controversial articles. Many of these tend to be closely watched by a specific set of editors. What this basically means is that you need to make sure that you use the best possible sources and if adding content, that it's well written and neutral. It's not uncommon for people to remove or heavily edit content in articles, so if you find that this happens with one of these articles, it's best to discuss the edits on the talk page.
I didn't know if you were going to edit the page further, so I wanted to let you know about controversial articles a little. Again, you look like you've done everything you should be doing with a page like this, so I'm not terribly worried - I just wanted to give you a head's up just in case. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)