User talk:Aliree14
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[edit]Hello, Aliree14, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:43, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Sourcing
[edit]You had an excellent question!
A great place to start would be your school or local library. Don't be afraid about asking the librarians for help - they're trained to help you research and if they're anything like me, they will greatly enjoy the process of showing you what the library has to offer and what will come up during a search. If you can't go to the library in person, many libraries have chat and email where you can ask them to help find sources or any tips or tricks for your specific library. (Different libraries can often have different operating systems.) Be very careful about using Internet search providers like Google, as not everything that comes up will be usable as a source.
A good way to tell if a source is reliable would be to look and see if they have visible information about their editorial and verification process. If this is missing then that's a strong sign that they're likely not reliable. Another way would be to look at their website. Is the site in good working order or are pages down or broken? If so, then that's not a very good sign towards their quality. The same goes for spelling and grammatical errors.
A good sign that a site or publication would be reliable is if they're routinely used as a reliable source by other reliable sources (especially academic and scholarly sources), have won awards from reputable places for their work, or have been frequently mentioned in reliable sources for their quality.
Now as far as specific sourcing about cliff jumping goes, here are some sources that look potentially usable:
- Journal article about cliff jumping in England.
- Cliff jumping and disabled women
- The Epidemiology of Injury in Bungee Jumping, BASE Jumping, and Skydiving
- The book mentioned in this review may be usable as well.
Of note - if you plan on editing on the medical/self side of cliff jumping, I need you to take this training module on editing in this area. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2020 (UTC)