User talk:Umarylandmd

Welcome!

Hello Umarylandmd, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Falcon8765 (talk) 20:10, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great work

Excellent work at Prostate cancer...I get the impression you know this subject well. You noticed the garbled nature of some of the language at the article. At least some of this is down to a class project where a professor had her students edit Wikipedia pages on nutrition-related topics. These assignments are always well-intentioned, but the results aren't always pretty! Thanks again for your contributions; I hope you stick around. Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 20:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thanks for your encouragement! I'm still struggling with the format for references, so if I mess up I hope you'll help. I may want to add a few more major studies and delete some of the previous references that seem to be based on one small study. Your advice is welcome.

Umarylandmd (talk) 06:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry...I normally watchlist talkpages where I comment, but forgot to do it with yours. Thanks for following up at my talkpage. I will take a look again later today or tomorrow and help with references or advice as I can. One very easy tool to use is: <ref>{{Cite pmid|Insert PMID of your reference here}}</ref>. There are corresponding versions for PMC and DOI. Plug in the identifier and the tool generates a reference with all available fields within a few minutes. Best, Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 16:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, UM, I agree re: articles being written for a general audience, not medical professionals. The only thing I would mildly disagree with in your edits is the removal of the wikilink for medical sign, although that's minor. Links can be retained without using the actual words by following the link name in brackets by a vertical (|) and the words you want. Example: [[medical sign|objective evidence]] or similar. Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 16:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]