User talk:Lisakauth

Welcome!

Hello, Lisakauth, 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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Nice work

You've done some great work on the Rabbit haemorrhagic disease article – really nice to see. Regarding spelling, a convention on Wikipedia for individual articles is to use whatever variety of English (e.g., American English, British English) first appeared there. In the case of Rabbit haemorrhagic disease, the article first appeared in British English, and so that variety of English is retained there. More information can be found at WP:ENGVAR, which is part of the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Hope this helps, and I hope that you continue to contribute here. Feel free to ask me any questions. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 22:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback!

Hey--

Researched and put together "Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease" on Wikipedia for English class. Would appreciate some feedback. Thanks!

Now there's an interesting topic for an English class! I'll lodge a request at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. I'm not sure how long it takes to get a response from them, so I've included my own feedback below. You can also have a look at articles on other diseases in the categories that the RHD article comes under.

Overall, an impressive effort, with a fairly broad coverage of topics. The "History" and "Worldwide geographic distribution" sections seem to cover the same topic, and could come under the heading of "Epidemiology" (or "Epidemiological history"). A "History" section could contain information about the history of scientific/medical efforts to identify and characterise the disease. If there's a substantial amount of information regarding treatment or vaccination, then that probably deserves its own separate section too. The "Control" section should probably be named "Disease control" just to further explain what's being talked about. The "Biological control agent" section is particularly impressive: you don't see this kind of information on too many articles.

The prose is fairly good and easy to read. The best way to verify this is to get a young high school student to read it: a good article should be generally understandable to readers aged 13 or so. I think there are still one or two grammatical errors – e.g., But it is believed the disease emerged from a virulent caliciviruses making its way... – but I think you caught most of them in previous article revisions. The League of Copyeditors on Wikipedia can give you more thorough advice on grammar, spelling and prose. There are also a few "weasel words" in the text: e.g., It is speculated that…. Usually it's better to state either who is doing the speculating, how many experts believe this, or to quote a source that explicitly states that most experts believe this. Sometimes this is hard to do, so if you're unable to do it then don't worry about it too much.

Most editors on Wikipedia generally prefer footnote citations: see Help:Footnotes (simple) or Wikipedia:Footnotes (detailed) on how to do this. It's a bit harder to format an article this way, but it allows other people to see where a particular piece of information comes from. This is especially useful if other editors try to challenge any information on the article. However, this style of referencing is not compulsory. Hopefully you can manage to get some pictures onto the article – pictures always make a medical article look interesting.

Again, nice work. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 09:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images

{{helpme}} I would like to add images to the Wikipedia article "Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease" from the Center For Food Security & Public Health. Is that possible? Do I need to obtain permission first or just cite? Thanks!

The best way is to get permission to have the images licensed under GFDL, and then upload the images to Commons. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permissions. You need to follow the instructions for documenting the permission. --Coppertwig (talk) 12:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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