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1988 Nepal earthquake

Hi @Dora the Axe-plorer, I see you have been helping the 1988 Nepal earthquake page recently. Masters students on the Global Health Challenges course at the University of Edinburgh have been working in groups to research and improve articles like this one for the last month, with each group member working on individual sections of the final page. As part of their final coursework submissions they took this short stub article up to 2,400 words in length using their reading and credible sources. So, they are understandably a little disheartened to see the article has been halved in length (now 1,200 words approx.) with the rewrite as soon as they posted their group efforts. I do understand that there may have been some inaccuracies (the mental impacts section may have referred a different earthquake for instance), some bloat or lack of structure/focus etc. However I'm wondering if you could summarise your main advice and contructive criticisms for any future work on similar articles. As a form of useful feedback? That way they would learn for the future and not cause any further needs for rewrites. Also, in such circumstances, I wonder if you could offer them the chance to do the rewrite first? Or advise them that the article may need a rewrite even? Perhaps if it would made more clear to you that this was part of a group student project for Masters students around the world. Any advice you would provide would be very useful for the students and make them see the positives of honing the content into something more effective and useful. Best wishes, Stinglehammer (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ps. I've added a colleague, PigsontheWing, to take a look to offer a 2nd opinion and he thinks some of the culled content was actually good worthwhile content and well-referenced so am wondering if we could restore at least some of the student edits where that is the case. Would this be something you could consider/countenance? Stinglehammer (talk) 20:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Stinglehammer, thank you for reaching out. Do give me some time to go a full review on the student's contributions and I could make specified comments. The overall justification for my deletion was that some paragraph go completely uncited or are written in a way that appears like a research paper. In the case of the Nepal article, there were a few lines that seem to draw an independent conclusion, WIkipedia isn't the place to do that and all information must be cited: WP:V by reliable sources.

Wikipedia should be written with a standard expected in Wikipedia:Manual of Style. It doesn't have to be perfect, but I generally look for contractions or other typos. There's also the frequent issue with citations added before the period mark "." and duplicated citations which I try my best to clean up.

I've listed a few articles that are generally well-sourced, written, has supporting images (if available) and confirms to the MOS:

I'm glad and very thankful for the contributions they've made. The 1988 Nepal earthquake expansion is a great achievement. I'll return again to make a more comprehensive assessment. Best,
Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:42, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Stinglehammer Replying to the second comment, yes you may restore the content, although it has to be re-written and all paragraphs/sentences must be cited with the appropriate template. I'm able to help the editors with that if needed. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:47, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of tea for you!

Glad to see your eyes on 2024 Petrolia earthquake. Thanks. BusterD (talk) 19:30, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I felt it down in the Bay! Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 19:32, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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