User talk:Merkelcell

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Meelar (talk) 17:56, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Merkel cell cancer
I've added back the Spanish link after discovering that there is no version of merkel cell cancer in a language other than english. We have a policy on external links at External links which discourages links to non-english sites and discussion groups; however, because of the rarity of the cancer and the need for accurate information and support, I think it's best to make an exception as the links definitely give a needed service to readers which cannot be met by the wikipedia article.

As for histopathology-india.net, I went on a campaign to remove 250 external links to it last week primarily because of how little information is given on its website. Also, a few links a day had been added to that site over the space of 7 months, all by IP addresses coming from India. That is extreme self-promotion to me (check out my talk page for more on that).

With the images you've added to the article, the only problem is that they all have the same caption. This makes it confusing as the caption is all the information I get when reading the image besides the longer image descriptions which you've given at the end. I think the caption and the image description should be combined so the caption gives all the image description. Also wikipedia requires very plain image descriptions to conform to its neutral point of view policy. So for the first image, I'd change it to something like: "bump on arm showing early progression of merkel cell cancer." and for the second one something like "this stage of merkel cell cancer may be mistaken for a benign cyst and so on. I don't know much about the cancer so correct me if I'm wrong ...

When you put messages on talk pages, you should sign them with four tildes "~". That will give a link to your user name and the date. Regards, Graham 87 00:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


 * See Help desk . I know you can't take them again, but could you upload a version without the URL? Credit is alright in the image description page but not the image itself. It's probably easiest to reply at the help desk to keep discussion in one centralised place. Graham 87 04:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)