User talk:Lucia.yates

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Lucia.yates, 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) 12:34, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the welcome Ian! I'm very excited to start editing. I'll take a look at the resources you just sent me! Lucia.yates (talk) 19:15, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Hi Lucia. Yes, you can use non-English sources, especially if they're the highest-quality available source. If an equivalent source in English exists, it's better to use that.

If you can't find a source any more, you can tag it with {{dead link}}. You can also try to find a copy at Archive.org. Generally speaking you shouldn't remove dead links. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:07, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback[edit]

Nice work on your draft. I made a few copyedits.

In the "Utility scale" section, you start with history and then get to capacity. Most people aren't going to read the whole section - they're going to read the start, and maybe then continue further. So you should always try to start with the biggest points, then get to things like history. Similarly in the "Distributed" section, don't start with a definition. Make the biggest point first, then go on to how its defined. Finally, be careful with capitalization - make sure that you're only capitalizing proper nouns. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What sort of feedback are you looking for on the media? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:39, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your source appears to be the work of the Mexican government. According to this page, government work is copyright for 100 years after publication, but you tagged it as not being subject to copyright. Can you point me to the specific page in the document where it says it isn't subject to copyright? Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:26, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]