Pyager14

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Hello, Pyager14, 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) 16:37, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for unsupervised homework

Unless your homework assignment is being supervised by an experienced Wikipedia editor, there is a reasonable probability that your contributions will be removed the moment that your class ends. Here are some tips:

• Do not overwrite mature articles. Make incremental changes or post suggestions on Talk pages.
• Rely on WP:SECONDARY and WP:TERTIARY sources. Please not insert primary references. They will likely be removed.

Pass on this advice to your fellow students and your instructor. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:16, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Reverts

If someone reverts your edits, don't re-insert without discussion. And even though this is a class assignment, you are required to abide by the norms and rules of Wikipedia. Recall this training slide. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Please make sure that your additions are balanced and integrated into the existing article. Your additions constitute more than half the current length of the article. When coupled with the sections on health, this means that a large majority of the content in the article is dedicated to the health and environmental impacts of parabens. This is a problem, since it doesn't represent the actual relative importance of the compounds - parabens are most important (rightly or wrongly) as chemical components of consumer products - their health and environmental impacts are only important because they're important consumer products. It's important that your additions to the article reflect this. If you want to expand the environmental impacts to such an extent, you need to expand the rest of the article. Otherwise you're creating an unbalanced - and thus, non-neutral, article.

You also should be integrating your additions into the article as a whole. Are health and environmental impacts distinct, and are they entirely distinct from the "controversy" section? Aren't the degradation products part of the chemistry of parabens, not simply the environmental impacts? You can't just add a lengthy sub-section to the article - you need to keep the overall quality and balance of the article in consideration. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)