User talk:Drobi036

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Queen's_University/Critical_Appraisal,_Research_and_Lifelong_Learning_(Fall_Term_1).
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page suggestions

Thanks for adding your suggestions. I have temporarily moved it to your sandbox, so we can clean up the formatting of your suggestions to prepare them for the actual Wikipedia page. I will add some comments and help you along the way. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. You can leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. Please leave the draft in your sandbox for now. Remove my bolded comments (once you have added your content), insert the references using the PMID tool, and then I will help you paste it back onto the talk page. Thanks! JenOttawa (talk) 20:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your updated version in your sandbox

Great work with polishing your draft for the talk page. Would one of you mind going back and inserting all the citations using the tool? It will work in your sandbox. Once this is done, and WikiEdu has OK-d it, I will paste your blurb back into the talk page. Thanks for doing all these revisions! If you have any problems with the PMID tool, please let me know. Let me know if you need help inserting the same citation twice as well. Medical articles need a citation after every single sentence, even if is the same source. Thanks, JenOttawa (talk) 01:50, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help us out with the PMID tool? We have just been citing as was shown in class

Drobi036 (talk) 02:29, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am having a lot of trouble trying to clean up the references section. I try to cite one reference and when I preview or save another number comes up, and then there are a list of numbers before our reference list even starts.

Drobi036 (talk) 02:41, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

citations

I made a couple notes on your sandbox. Your doc is getting closer to be finished, great work. I am not sure why the citation tool is not working. Are you able to click "cite" and then pull down the "template" and choose your citation type. If it is a journal, paste your PMID and then populate the form by clicking the magnifying glass. Be sure to delete what is there now, as something is not working properly. I can help you insert your citations twice if you need help. If you cannot get your citations inserted, paste the reference at the end of the appropriate paragraph (along with the PMID). You can reach me by email or on here. Thanks, JenOttawa (talk) 10:41, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Some of our citations do not have a PMID...but I can research them and get the PMID?

Many Thanks, Drobi036 (talk) 12:40, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I think I figured it out. Thank you, should be done by later today when I get the chance.

Drobi036 (talk) 12:50, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, great. You can search for your citation on pubmed to get the PMID. Do your best and I will take a look tonight.

Thanks for your patience!

JenOttawa (talk) 13:00, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok so all references are in using PMID/DOI/ISBN; however my "Named References" isn't working. It tells me there are no references on the page to choose from, so I am unable to repeat citations after periods. Drobi036 (talk) 19:07, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Looking great and close to being ready to go live. #9 and #4 need a citation. Where do you need to add the citation twice? I don't see it. If you indicate in your sandbox, I can help. Thanks. Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 21:39, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The citation needed for 4 was there but in the second sentence. I attempted citing the first sentence (it is the same reference) but it became it's own reference. The same thing occurred when I tried to cite the first reference for suggestion 9, and reference 5 for suggestion 6 (both suggestion 5 and 6 use the Cosma reference). My "named references" section isn't working so I tried to cite using the "cite your source" button. Drobi036 (talk) 21:50, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I updated your references by adding the PMIDs. Do you have the textbook page#s to add in? #4 was still not clear. The easiest way to add a multiple citation with wikicode is to make a reference name: e.g: a citation usually starts with a <ref> You can name that reference by changing it to <ref name=Dawson2017> (usually use the first authors last name + year of pub). For all other references that are the same, you just need to add in: <ref name=Dawson2017 /> Be sure to copy all the spaces and characters exactly as I just typed them, and it should work. Thanks, JenOttawa (talk) 23:32, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please ignore the two "<nowiki>"s this is just a code that allows me to write the code without doing it.

I fixed up the references and named the ones I had to repeat for 4. As for the page numbers, I did not source that reference and that suggestion is not mine. So I will let my teammates know that is the next step. Thank you! Drobi036 (talk) 00:45, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great!

Nice job figuring out the references. Yes, looks like one citation is missing and the two textbooks need page #s. Leave me a message when this is done and we can transfer it. Thanks, Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 00:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I added the page number for reference 4; the first reference doesn't have a page, it is just updating to the new edition of the reference previously mentioned on the wiki page, and the member whose suggestion #7 said there's is an online textbook so there are no page numbers.

Drobi036 (talk) 20:25, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks. I pasted it back on your talk page. Please follow and respond to comments/make further changes if needed.JenOttawa (talk) 02:19, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]