Jennifer0327
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editHello, Jennifer0327, 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) 16:28, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
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editHi - I wanted to leave you a note. I'm concerned that your topic is so very specific that there won't be sourcing for the topic. Your topic area is extremely specific, which poses an issue with sourcing. The more specific a topic is, the harder it usually is to find sourcing that explicitly covers the topic. Keep in mind that we can only summarize what others have specifically stated on the topic. We can't draw our own conclusions based on sourcing that doesn't explicitly state the claims. So for example, if a source doesn't mention cognitive estrangement in Latinx speculative fiction, it would be seen as original research to use it to back up claims about this topic area. Your draft also completely lacks sourcing, which poses a major issue as well - any unsourced claims or articles can be challenged and removed from Wikipedia.
I'm also concerned that the coverage out there doesn't use the specific term Latinx speculative fiction, instead choosing to describe it as Latin-American speculative fiction. With Wikipedia, the rule of thumb is to use the term that is widely used in the source material. So if the most widely used term is Latin-American speculative fiction, that's the term that should be used in the article and what should be in the title.
My recommendation here is that you should focus on creating an article on the general topic area of Latin-American speculative fiction, rather than this specific aspect. Another option would be to focus on creating or expanding an article on a specific figure or work. For example, there's no article on Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial, despite it being a major work of hers. The article on Mariana Enríquez is also fairly small, despite her being cited in this work as an important figure. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:42, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Cognitive Estrangement in Latinx Speculative Fiction for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Chess (talk) (please use {{ping|Chess}} on reply) 17:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)