User talk:Finnry/PiaMater

Pia Mater help request
Hi Finnry: You asked for some help at my talk page. While basic anatomy is not my specialty (I am a neuropsychologist) I may be able to give you some wiki-advice:


 * Regarding sections: Twe wikipedia manual of style for medical articles (See WP:MEDMOS) gives some advice on the structure of anatomy articles, it is similar to your proposal but may be of help. See proposed sections here.
 * I have taken a quick look at your possible sources and first of all you should find better sources for the article: 1st does not work (laserspine) and nevertheless its main page looks very "commercial", second one is a review which is great, although is not really centred on the pia mater anatomy, the third is on abnormalities (disease) of the pia mater and is part of a larger book; finally the fourth is a primary article (and quite old). Take a look at WP:MEDRS which talks about the best sources for medical-scientific articles in WP. Secondary reliable sources (such as reviews in scientific journals or textbooks) are preferred over primary ones (non-review articles in journals). Websites in most situations are in most cases far from being ideal sources. My recommendation would be that you searched for basic neuroanatomy books and used it/them instead of websites and primary articles, at least for the most general facts of the article.
 * At this point sources of the article are not very good so you should also use textbooks and reviews to eliminate current sources with better ones.
 * Once you find better sources you would have to add them as inline citations. I, or anybody in the neuroscience or medicine projects will help you with it but you can also see Citing sources.
 * It would also be a good idea if you left a link on the article's talk page to your proposals and your questions about it: editing tends to encourage editing and you may receive comments from other editors.

I hope this has been of help... Again: feel free to make any questions or further comments on my recommendations at my talk page.--Garrondo (talk) 19:33, 20 March 2011 (UTC)