User talk:MindyNguyenAaron

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 14)
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Theroadislong (talk) 13:35, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: User:MindyNguyenAaron/sandbox has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:MindyNguyenAaron/sandbox. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 13:36, 14 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Apart from what has said, the page would not be suitable as a Wikipedia article, because it is written in an unmistakably laudatory tone, rather than being written from a neutral point of view. That is usual in the case of content on an organisation's web site referring to itself, its work, people who work for it, etc, and for that reason it is very rarely suitable to post text copied from another web site to Wikipedia, even in cases where copyright is not an issue.
 * I see from your user page that you work for the National Library of Medicine. That being so, you should be aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline before doing any more editing relating to the National Library of Medicine.
 * Most of the text you posted to the page is published on a page at www.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM requests that any use of material from that website be acknowledged, so I have added an acknowledgement in the editing history of the page.
 * Not everybody who uses Wikipedia is from the United States, and it doesn't necessariily go without saying what nation the word "National" refers to in the title "National Library of Medicine". It becomes pretty clear if one reads the whole page, but it is much better for it to be clear right from the start, so wording such as "... director of the United States National Library of Medicine" is better than "... director of the National Library of Medicine". Also, since there is a Wikipedia article United States National Library of Medicine, it is helpful to link to it by way of clarification of what is being referred to, so I suggest adding that link.
 * Finally, the body of a Wikipedia article should not contain links to external web sites, except in the form of citations to references. For example, we should not have the link Bucknell University. Since there is a Wikipedia article Bucknell University it is helpful to link to it, in the form Bucknell University, but there should not be a link in the text of an article to another web site. (A limited range of types of external links may acceptably appear in an "external links" section near the bottom of an article, but that is a different matter.) JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 14:02, 14 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Since I wrote my message above, it has been drawn to my attention that there is a template which should be included in the page to indicate the use of content from the NLM. It is Template:Include-NIH. A fairly minimal use in this case would be, but better still add a couple more parameters , as described in the documentation for that template (which you will see if you click on the link I have given). However, it is worth emphasising that this is to be done if you are keeping content quoted from that web site. For several reasons, one of which I have described above, writing new content from scratch would be better. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 20:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)