User talk:Eda2y

Welcome!
Hello, Eda2y, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Reverting
Hi. I noticed that you reverted an edit by Boghog on the Twinkle (protein) article. If someone removes your additions to a Wikipedia article, you can't just reinstate your work without first discussing things and figuring out what the problem was. Simply reinstating your edits is considered edit-warring, and is not acceptable. This is something that was covered in the training modules, and was even a question in the quiz you had to answer to finish the module. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk)

Twinkle
You seem to have run into problems with your contributions to the Twinkle (protein) article. I wanted to give you some feedback on some of the specific problems. If you look at the Discovery section:


 * While this style is appropriate for research papers, this isn't the appropriate style for an encyclopedia article. Start with the most important information first, and follow it up with details. Don't go the chronological route - your readers want to have the story revealed bit by bit. Stick to the facts.
 * Use secondary sources. You shouldn't use Spelbrink et al. as a source to talk about their own work.
 * Use normal English, not jargon - don't say things like "Spelbrink et al. were..." Don't say things like "authors refer to" or "the team predicted".
 * Don't describe the experiment, or the methods, or the details. Something like "Samples were taken from muscle cells and blood." just isn't that important to the article about Twinkle. It's a detail of the experimental design, it's not a major finding. It unlikely that a textbook writing about this protein would include that kind of detail.
 * Make sure that what you're saying is comprehensible to the average person. For example, when you say something like "The residues 579 to 684 are absent in the variant and has 4 different amino acids at the terminal side" many of your readers aren't going to understand what you're talking about, or understand its significance.
 * Don't use passive voice. Don't say "It was noted that Twinkle is overexpressed..." People note things, they don't note themselves.
 * Make sure that there's some way for your readers to learn more - link terms that they're likely to be unfamiliar with to other articles that can discuss them in more depth.

Remember that Wikipedia uses a very spare style. Just the facts. Don't elaborate too much. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:36, 19 November 2018 (UTC)