User talk:Andi347

Welcome!
Hi ! Thanks for posting on the Ascaris lumbricoides talk page before you sank your teeth into the article. What exactly do you intend on improving there? I'm not particularly familiar with the article but it appears to be in overall decent shape. I noticed that you're fairly new to Wikipedia (welcome!!). One pattern I see here with saddening frequency is that new editors go to a fairly well-developed article (like this one), make fairly large changes, and receive substantial pushback from other editors who have previously edited the page. Discouraged, the new editors leave forever and the we miss out on getting a new, interested editor. So while I hate to be a Scrooge, my major suggestion would be to get started by editing an article that is in worse shape than that one. That would give you a chance to add a bunch of material and really improve the encyclopedia in a big way!

If you're particularly interested in worms that infect humans, I might suggest improvements to Ancylostoma duodenale (which needs more references, or the existing references to be moved inline), Angiostrongylus cantonensis (which has a lot of unnecessary overlap with Angiostrongyliasis that needs to be sorted out. Also needs more references per the warning tags at the top), Angiostrongylus costaricensis (this just needs more material), Strongyloides fuelleborni (I think this one can infect people sometimes? Has no page at all), Anisakis simplex (the page is currently about three sentences. The other Anisakis species don't have pages. Not sure if any others infect humans...), Pseudoterranova (I thought some species in this genus caused similar disease to Anisakis? Maybe they've been reclassified or something. There's no Pseudoterranova page...), Toxocara cati (the references are inconsistent and need to be fixed), Lagochilascaris minor (maybe I'm spelling this wrong. I thought this could sometimes infect humans but I can't find a page for this or the genus). If you'd like some more suggestions, I can poke around later to see what else needs doing.

Basically, my point is that there is a lot to be done around here and a lot of good a new editor can do. Fighting people to make small changes to a well-established article may not be as productive a use of your time as drastically improving a crappy article. Also you may enjoy it substantially more. Anyway sorry for the long message. I'm glad to see another new editor interested in infectious diseases/public health/worms/whatever you're interested in. If you have any questions about anything as you get started, feel free to ask me here, at my talk page or at WP:TEAHOUSE which is a place for new editors to ask questions about anything. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 18:12, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions
Hi, thank you for your comments and suggestions above - as you can tell, I'm new to this! My university lab has microscopy slides of certain parasites that I think would be useful to include in articles such as Eimeria stiedae. Do you think it would be worthwhile for me to edit this article? If not, I shall go with one of your suggestions above (probably Angiostrongylus costaricensis ). Thanks again! Andi347 (talk) 12:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Images on some of those articles that lack them would be great! Let me know if you'd like a hand uploading them and getting them onto the page(s) you'd like to update. There are a lot of rules/guidelines/editing norms around here, so don't be afraid to reach out to me or someone else with questions. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 13:51, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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