User talk:Jdk339

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Hello, Jdk339, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:43, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Article draft

Hi. I moved your draft back to User:Jdk339/sandbox because it wasn't ready to go "live" yet.

Instead of creating a new article, you should have used your content to expand the existing Cyclic adenosine monophosphate article. Please see the instructions at the top of page 13 in the Editing Wikipedia brochure, or re-visit this training slide for help with this.

Before you move your work live, you need to make sure that you have cleaned up your draft. For example, the draft you moved "live" started with "[null Adenosine 3’,5’-cyclic monophosphate]". Copy-editing your work is important.

When writing for Wikipedia, you should try to make your key points as early as possible in a paragraph. The more introductory material people have to read through, the less likely they are to keep reading. For example, in the History section you wrote

Professor of Physiology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Dr. Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. (1915-1974) isolated and discovered adenosine 3’,5’-cyclic monophosphate as well as its role as an intermediate regulator in numerous hormonal mechanisms in 1958 which lead to him receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Sutherland presented the now accepted theory that numerous hormones do not enter the cell but rather attach to a surface receptor which initiates the formation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate that either starts or stops the particular metabolic process.

Everything before "Earl Wilbur Sutherland" is filler. Just link to the Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. article, and let the reader go there if they want to know more about him. Wikipedia articles also don't use honorifics like "Dr.", and his dates of birth and death don't really belong here either.

Make sure you add links to other articles. Any terms that the average reader might be unfamiliar with should be linked. That also means that you don't have to duplicate information found in other articles - just link to it. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:14, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi. This edit summary is not OK. My advice to you is visiable on this very page: Instead of creating a new article, you should have used your content to expand the existing Cyclic adenosine monophosphate article.

You did not "made the changes Ian wanted". Please stop. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 06:32, 24 November 2017 (UTC)