Robbievigar
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editHello, Robbievigar, 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) 14:14, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
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editHi, I wanted to respond on your talk page. I'm currently doing some cleanup of your article.
- I noticed that several portions looked to be very closely paraphrased or otherwise taken directly from several places. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. I would like for you to review the module on plagiarism and copyright.
- The WN source was the Philly.com source - be very cautious and make sure that you do not use the same source over, as there are places like WN that just repost or mirror the articles.
- This needs more sourcing - many of these are primary sources, as they were released by Carter or Penn University. You need more independent, reliable sources covering Carter. You also want to make sure that the source goes into depth about Carter and isn't just mentioning her in passing about a different topic, as these sources cannot establish notability. Offhand you're pretty much going to have to use your school's scholarly and academic databases, as well as their access to things like LexisNexis, as much of this will likely be in sources that aren't easily discovered on the general Internet.
- Be careful with obituaries. In some cases these can be written by a friend or family member, so always look to make sure that you're using things written by a staff member.
- Avoid point of view phrases, as this is something that will be subjective to the reader. Not all readers will have the same viewpoint and anything that does come across as subjective should not be included unless it's directly attributed to the person making the statement.
- Wikipedia doesn't use titles in an article like Dr. unless this is part of something like a stage name that they're widely known under such as Snoop Dogg or Dr. Ruth.
- Avoid saying that someone is best known for something - this should just say "known", as this is something that will be subjective to the reader. It's possible that someone may know her for something else instead. Also, be careful of what you highlight as a major accomplishment, as the article will need to have independent sourcing to show where this is a major accomplishment. If no one is really mentioning this, then it shouldn't really be something that is given a huge amount of space and weight in the article. You can mention it, but it shouldn't be given any more or less depth than other content.
Now I did find sourcing for Howard-Carter's membership to the Royal Geographical Society, which is a fairly prestigious society, so this alone will establish her notability - however I would still work on the above issues. I've moved the page live, so you can work on them there. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:59, 30 April 2019 (UTC)