User talk:Cosmicseeds

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Medical/health topics

I noticed that you sometimes edit topics related to medicine/health, and that these are reverted. See Folate for recent example. These topics require a specific standard for allowable references. See WP:MEDRS. Briefly, individual clinical trials are not allowed (nor in vitro or animal research). This irks a lot of people, but that is the way it is. David notMD (talk) 12:25, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Johannes Fried, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 03:33, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Heads-up

Hiya, There is a discussion going on the global warming talk page after an edit you made in the lede. Not sure whether you got a notification, hence a heads-up here. Femke Nijsse (talk) 08:22, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Comments

Just sending this FYI to everyone recently in the topic area who doesn't have one in the last 12 months. And before I posted here, I sent one to myself too. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 02:18, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style on global warming

Hello! Thanks for adding some more accessible RSs to global warming. Are you aware that we agreed to have a consistent citation style on this page? That's one of the requirements for it being a featured article. We chose a citation style with the harv-template. For more information and examples, see the text and see Talk:Global warming/Citation standards. The citations that you're adding are not yet in this style. Could you convert them a bit? Femke Nijsse (talk) 11:35, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) What Femke said... NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:58, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your recent edit at Global warming: as before, please note that we are establishing a citation style where full citations are placed in the Sources section, and a short-cite used for the in-line citation. Please move the full citation in your edit to "Sources", adding the |ref=harv parameter. Also, please include the first five authors in your full citation. The short-cite to use in this case is {{harvnb|Turetsky|Abbott|Jones|Anthony|2019}}. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:50, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see that progress is being made; thank you. You should also add the "first#=" parameters. When you move the full citation to "Sources" (replacing it with the short-cite) I believe you will find it easier to read and check if formatted in a manner similar to the other citations. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:13, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The citation you added yesterday again didn't conform to the standards. Note that J. Johnson improved the explanation at Talk:Global warming/Citation standards. Please either ask help if you struggle with it, or comply with the citation stardard. It is a lot of work for us to fix other people's work. Could you confirm you've read this? Femke Nijsse (talk) 14:19, 8 October 2019 (UTC) Confirmed. Help is welcome. Cosmicseeds, 9. October 2019[reply]

I have fixed the citations. You can look at the history of the page to see what I've done. Can you explain to me what part of the explanation found at Talk:Global warming/Citation standards is unclear? Are you using the visual editor or editing the wikitext directly? It's difficult, if not impossible, to get the formatting completely right if you're editing with the visual editor. Also note that many non-controversial sentences don't need more than one citation. Adding too many citations can lead to WP:CITATIONOVERKILL. Femke Nijsse (talk) 17:03, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

-. Thank you for your interest in the climate pages!
A. I don't care about citation formatting that much
B. But I do care that others care and have worked hard on what they care about
C. The place operates on community respect and teamwork (WP:5P4, WP:ARBCC#Purpose of Wikipedia
D. Please show the eds who care that you're at least trying. Femke is very reasonable and when there are reasons to disagree, she's a great editor to oppose, because she seeks mutual understanding and full airing of reasons and isn't concerned with winning as much as deciding well. That way we get the best answer.
E. So even though I don't care that much about citation formatting, please do try to follow the protocol that has been developed, because it matters very much to other members of our team.

Thanks, NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:11, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Panspermia

Directed panspermia is interesting but it’s not relevant to some of the articles you’ve added it to, so I’ve deleted it. Andyjsmith (talk) 08:33, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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No preprints as sources, please. --RexxS (talk) 18:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Solar Foods

As an editor of Solar Foods please go and read its talk page: [1]. Thank you! Jjanhone (talk) 04:40, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Medical content

I notice you were advised above about WP:MEDRS, but you are still adding many non-WP:MEDRS sources to articles. Please make sure any source for biomedical content that you use meets the WP:MEDRS standard. Thanks. Alexbrn (talk) 15:16, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see the 2019 post above directing you to WP:MEDRS explaining sourcing guidelines for medical content. You also received a note about this recently. Major depressive disorder is a Featured article, and an overview of a broad topic; see WP:WIAFA and WP:FAOWN as well. This edit is based on a recent primary source rather than a secondary review, and is WP:UNDUE as well. If you are having a hard time understanding sourcing guidelines in medical content, you might suggest your edits on the article talk page before adding them, or ask questions at WT:MED. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:33, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Opioid crisis content

Perhaps you could take a look at this revert. It seems grossly unfair to say that this was a rebuttal to the letter itself. The problem was the way the letter was being misrepresented. Also, take a look at the editing history of the article about that letter. None of the reverts have anything to do with actual content. 201.71.2.255 (talk) 10:05, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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