User talk:ERROR CHILD NOT COMPLETE/sandbox

comments

• all of the citations are very old. They should be no older than 5 years or so, per WP:MEDDATE
• some of these are primary sources; you should use secondary sources per WP:MEDDEF.
• please format citations as described in WP:MEDHOW. They should all have pmids at least.
• why is this all in italics?

There is no point saying more as the content is likely to be different when you use appropriate refs. Jytdog (talk) 20:47, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog - to address your comments:

• I used two secondary sources that were updated very recently. I linked the references that were cited by those sources themselves, since I had always been taught to cite the original source even if you came upon that source within another source. They have now been removed and the only cited sources are the two secondary sources.
• See comment above.
• The two references used are not indexed by PubMed.
• The italics denote what I am adding to the section.

ERROR CHILD NOT COMPLETE (talk) 03:04, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

@ERROR CHILD NOT COMPLETE: Thanks for sharing your suggestions for improving the article. I think it makes sense what you did with italics (to indicate your improvements and make it easier for us to see what you propose to add versus what is already in the article). Thanks for removing your primary references. In Wikipedia, we only cite the secondary sources. It is different from writing an academic paper, I agree, we were trained to cite the first person who “discovered” something. For your references, if they have DOIs they can still be added, otherwise use the website as you did I think. Thanks for taking the time to respond to the feedback and make the corrections. JenOttawa (talk) 03:49, 7 November 2018 (UTC)