User talk:R500Mom: Difference between revisions

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Hello, R500Mom, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --JWSchmidt (talk) 23:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From your edits I can only deduce that you are close to someone with Niemann-Pick disease type C. My sympathies, and I hope all care received so far has been satisfactory.

On reviewing your edits, I note that you are inserting a lot of information on NPD on pages where such information is really very peripheral or disproportionate. For instance, most people reading cholesterol read it because they are eating unhealthy diets and are overweight. Only the smallest possible fraction of people with cholesterol problems have Niemann-Pick. Hence, I have removed your addition (it can be retrieved through the edit history), because I think it contravenes the WP:WEIGHT Wikipedia policy.

Similarly I have removed external links to the NPD foundation on pages where such a link would be of marginal relevance to the casual reader of such articles. That includes Gaucher (which, apart from being another lysosomal storage disorder, has only few similarities) and lipid and neurodegenerative disease.

I would suggest you make your contributions to the NPD page itself. Niemann-Pick disease was assessed as "B-class" but is actually of fairly poor quality with only two academic references. I'm sure that with some expert help it should be possible to improve that to high quality. Please let me know if you need any help. JFW | T@lk 21:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I understand you want to get as much information on NPD onto Wikipedia, but in some cases I think it would be better if you took a careful approach. For instance, dementia should only really mention NPD together with all other rare inborn errors of metabolism to give some sense of content. Adding an URL to the research charity would - on that page - be a bit over the top.

For references, have a look at Wikipedia:Footnotes. Medical footnotes are actually a bit more difficult. The relevant page is probably WP:MEDRS, which also gives some advice on what kind of sources are the most appropriate (review articles are preferred over original research studies, for instance).

With regards to article assessment, Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment outlines the different classes of articles. "B-class" is better than "C-class", and so forth.

Contributing to Wikipedia can be a complicated and time-consuming affair. Once you've been through the learning curve, things get a bit easier. Don't hesitate to call on me or on other contributors at WP:MED, the medical contributors' forum. We've all been there before, and we take pride in our collaborative projects. JFW | T@lk 19:54, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The page history will tell you that it's mostly Arcadian (talk · contribs) who helped with the citations. A-class is not normally awarded to an article unless it has passed good article assessment. JFW | T@lk 08:47, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, R500Mom. You're doing very good work... just a couple of minor issues to discuss. If you will, try to fill in the edit summary field with just a brief word or two about your latest edit. It's not really mandatory or anything, but it makes everything run more smoothly for everyone monitoring certain articles.

Also, Wikipedia articles are singular tense as a rule. Whenever you link to an article title that is written in plural form within a sentence, i.e. "...these types of enzymes catalyze lipids.", the preferred way to link to enzymes is [[enzyme]]s as opposed to [[enzymes]]. Anyway, no big deal, but just a couple of things to keep in mind when making future edits. Thank you, and please continue your fine work.-- Rcej (talk) 03:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to hear about your kids having NPC. It's really good that you are using some of your knowledge/experience to improve those Wikipedia articles that you've been working on. I actually started the Autosomal recessive category last Dec., mainly because there was a need for the category and it must be frightening and shocking to two parents who had no idea they both carried a genetic disorder up until their child is born with an often incurable and/or devestating illness. The best way to help the category here at Wikipedia is to just place the code [[Category:Autosomal recessive disorders]] at the bottom of each article, for those disorders and diseases that fit that inheritance pattern if they've not been categorized.

As for referencing articles, there is an easy online Wiki tool that will do most of that for you. Here is a quick how-to:

1. To find journal references that you need, to support any sentence/paragraph you've written in a medical article, a great place to find these is at http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Once there, be sure to select 'pub med' from the menu, then just type the name of the disease or statement you need, and search away. PubMed journal abstracts are what you'll get back, but you will find what you need from these more than likely.

2. When you have the journal abstract you want to use for a reference, the only part you need is the PMID number at the bottom. Jot it down.

3. Now, go to the Wikipedia article you are referencing, and the only code to place on the page for that reference is <ref name=whatever>{{cite journal |pmid=1234567}}</ref>. Just insert the PMID number. Save the edit.

4. Finally, go to the Citation bot, type the exact name of the Wikipedia article in the blank.. and click 'submit'. The bot will locate the PMID number, then it will automatically write in the rest of the reference on the article for you, including the authors, title, year, etc. Cool, eh?

That should make things a little easier, and the bot can handle a page full of those short-cut references in a single visit.

As for the medical papers you need help referencing, if you will type down some of the sentences/paragraphs you want to incorporate into Wikipedia articles into your personal Sandbox, I'll be glad to take a look at it all.

Your Sandbox can be created by you at User:R500Mom/Sandbox. You can write rough drafts there, practice articles, wikicode, etc. and nobody will see it but you.

Anyway, I hope some of this will help your Wikipedia experiences be easier. I'm glad to help where I can.-- Rcej (talk) 09:23, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed that you've added the same link to http://www.theprojectcharity.org to over 25 pages. MOSMED#External_links may be able to provide some guidance on when such links would or would not be appropriate. --Arcadian (talk) 00:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please add citations for the comments you made to Hepatosplenomegaly. If you don't have any, I'll have to revert the changes. Regards, Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 05:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I had to revert your changes in hepatosplenomegaly. Please read the Wikipedia polices at WP:OR, WP:RS, and WP:V. If you have any questions, reply below, I've watchlisted your talk page for the next few days. Thanks, Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 19:50, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You need sources for that content. I can help you, but you can't just add things to the article without a source to back it up.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:16, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike -- my friend Joey does not know how to update his page and asked me to help him. I know a little Wiki and would appreciate the help to get this cleaned up. Here is a source for some of the information I put in -- http://www.eastsideboxing.com/weblog/news.php?p=13746&more=1

Its cool, I can help you. I took the pic in the article, I covered a few of his fights in Reno. You have to be careful on wiki about biographies of living people, they are held to a higher standard than other articles.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:28, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

oh, Ok. I was just trying to get some things updated as a favor to him and would really appreciate the help. Here is his bio. from his site. http://www.joeygilbertlaw.com/team/joey-gilbert R500Mom