Suman B R

New to Wikipedia: Need help in editing "Mars Society" page that has multiple issues !

Hai, I am Suman, a graduate student at University of Southern California and taking part in a course activity that involves editing wikipedia pages.

I'm a new wikipedian. Want to learn and contribute by editing some interesting topics in my field of interest; Aerospace Engineering :) . I'm currently editing "Mars Society" page.

The mars society page has the following issues: 1) Relies too much on references to primary sources. 2) Needs verification with more citation.

Want help to add new references and citations to make this page better! I would highly appreciate your advice & support !

Thanks

Suman B R

Welcome!

Hello, Suman B R, 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) 19:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi. Nice work on the article. I think your edits look good overall. Some general feedback

• You changed "endeavour" to "endeavor" and "organisation" to "organization". Wikipedia tries to maintain a delicate balance between different varieties of English, and you should generally only make changes when a page uses a mixture of both American and English spellings, and then you need to go into the history of the page and figure out which variety was used first.
• You shouldn't use Facebook pages as a source, especially when it's a chapter page. You can use the org's official webpage as a source, but you should always try to work as much as possible from third-party sources.
• You should have at least one reference per paragraph, and you shouldn't have text after the last reference in the paragraph.
• Yes, by all means you should update information sourced to their website. Make sure you access the |access-date = parameter. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Ian.

I replied to your feedback through your talk page. Lemme know if you have more suggestions.

Thanks again! Suman B R