User talk:Inquiryirl/sandbox

Hi, I can see you're planning on adding to the article Laminaria stick. Here's some feedback for you:
 * I see you've created headings with your text. To turn them into normally-formatted section headings, here's what you do
 * Go into edit mode
 * Highlight the text for a section head (ex. "Use in obstetrics and gynecology") with your cursor
 * On the top toolbar, click the dropdown for "Paragraph"
 * Select "Heading"
 * If you want to create a subsection within a section, you would follow the above process, but select "Sub-heading 1" and so on
 * References go after punctuation. This is an internal Wikipedia policy so that articles will be internally consistent. This is really easy to fix in Visual Editor--just click and drag the ref after the punctuation.
 * I can see that the Fox et al. ref is cited twice independently, meaning it's listed twice in the reference section. Ideally, the reference section will only list each reference once. If a reference has already been cited within an article, then it's possible to reuse an existing ref rather than adding it again.
 * While in edit mode, click "cite"
 * Select the tab "Re-use"
 * All the current references will populate. Either scroll until you find the one you want to reuse, or, in case of many citations, you can search a term from the article title or an author name.
 * All the content in "placement", "removal", and risks is uncited
 * Missing a period in However, there is no consensus as to which cervical preparation method is superior in terms of safety and technical ease of the procedure
 * also Risks of laminaria stick insertion include pain, rupture of amniotic membranes and/or initiation of labor, and infection in very rare cases
 * Laminaria should be capitalized and italicized as a genus name
 * Missing word "to" Prior to D&E in the second trimester of pregnancy
 * Because you're writing for a general audience, try not to use overly complicated language when meaning wouldn't be lost with simpler terms; for to allow the provider to visualize the uterine cervix, you could simply say "see" instead of visualize
 * Over time, the laminaria tents absorb fluid and swell to 3-4 times their initial diameter it would be helpful if you included the initial diameter
 * Your references appear to be high-quality medical sources--nicely done!

Let me know if you have any questions about any of this feedback. You can reach me via email, slack, or by replying directly beneath my text here! Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:58, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Feedback for D&E
Hi here is some feedback about your recent sandbox edits.
 * Make sure everything is cited. Any paragraph or section that ends without a citation is likely to get a "citation needed" tag tacked on to its end.
 * You aren't utilizing links as often as you could. Consider what links would be useful to the reader. I generally have at least one link per paragraph, and sometimes many more than that.
 * References should immediately follow punctuation, not the other way around. This is easy to fix in visual editor. Just click and drag the reference so that it follows the period.
 * Section titles should be as short as possible and not repeat the article title unnecessarily. For example, instead of "Risks of D&E" you can just have "Risks" because all sections are going to be about the subject of the article. Same goes for "Alternatives to D&E"

Make sure you add those citations before adding to mainspace! Other editors may remove your contributions if they are added without sufficient citations for verifiability. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:41, 20 August 2019 (UTC)