User talk:Kameron.McBride

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I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! SarahStierch (talk) 04:08, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Topics

Hey Kameron. Of the topics you've presented, I think scopophobia would be my top pick, though family secret is also a possibility. Drug-related topics tend to attract controversy and/or run into issues regarding reliable sourcing. If you pick the first, you might want to have a read through WP:MEDRS first. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good start with this. Avoid phrases like "The latest government epidemiological data" - first of all, it may not be updated regularly, so you should define a date (eg. "According to a 2011 government report..." or similar), and secondly, since this is an international project, you need to specify which government - don't assume your reader is US-based. Spell out contractions and words like "third", and don't capitalize symptoms. A general copy-edit would be a good idea. You might consider changing the order of your subsections. I'm a little concerned about your choice of references: per WP:MEDRS you should prefer journal articles wherever possible, and you've got a lot of generalist websites that are less reliable. I would urge you to work on upgrading to better sources. Once you've done that, keep in mind that you shouldn't use bare URLs for references; look at WP:CITEHOW for what information should be included. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:18, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey group. The article's long enough now that you could remove the stub tags at the bottom. Beyond that, take a look at your reference formatting - you've still got a couple of bare URLs, and you should try to make the format as consistent as possible between references. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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