User talk:Ibphilli

This user is a student editor in University_of_Mississippi/European_Studies_(Spring_2024) .

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Hello, Ibphilli, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; 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. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October Revolution[edit]

Thank you for your interest in improving Wikipedia. Regarding your addition: Unfortunately it is based on a source of unknown expertise. Please see our rules WP:RS. In particular, the authors of the cited article are unknown and the article it self does not look scholarly; just some digest for students, worse than wikipedia, because it does not provide detailed references for the information. Fortunately the addition looks plausible (although in the future please try not no introduce statement not found in the source, such as your "these policies were created to stifle major social revolution while giving freedoms to Russian citizens"). However I removed the footnote and marked it with {{citation needed}} tag.

One more remark: the article you cited is a tertiary source, i.e., it is just regurgitating scholarly sources. Usually in Wikipedia tertiary sources are frowned upon, unless they are coming from absolutely credible authors: you know the phenomenon "Chinese whispers", right? Also, information in tertiary sources are [[WP:V}difficult to verify]], because usually they do not provide detailed references for their wisdom (as in our case). And blindly copying from each other they are prone to spread faulty information over the internets.- Altenmann >talk 01:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another problem with your addition is that it is formally correct, but incomplete and therefore provides a wrong historical picture: it may appear that Russian Provisional gov't introduced democracy (in a way), which is very far from truth, for a simple reason: it simply had no time to implement these plans.

Concluding, if you are interested in the subject, please do some deeper research, basing on serious sources. - Altenmann >talk 01:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. OK. I will give you a hint: try not only write Wikipedia, but also read it. In your case please make a use of Russian_Provisional_Government#Legislative_policies_and_problems. - Altenmann >talk 01:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]