User talk:Mrmille2

Welcome!
Hello, Mrmille2, 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.

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Sulforaphane
Hello. On my talk page, you said: ''I am an undergraduate biology major participating in an epigenetics course, and I would like to edit the sulforaphane page. I have completed the student training, and I am familiar with the guidelines. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for editing the sulforaphane page.'' With your focus on epigenetics and sulforaphane, you are proposing edits in the Wikiproject Medicine category. Here is some further guidance for you:

Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.


 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
 * 2) Then click on "templates",
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
 * 4) If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".

We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia.

Combining the search terms "epigenetics", "sulforaphane", and "review", here are the PubMed results, which show this field of study at an early stage of laboratory research not yet at an encyclopedic level. In my opinion, little can be added to the sulforaphane article because the Research section already states the obvious conclusion that basic research is underway and there are no satisfactory clinical studies to date. Good luck! --Zefr (talk) 17:29, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Please don't add primary research (lab studies) to the encyclopedia. These are preliminary investigations at best, far from being confirmed in vivo or in people. Here's a tutorial that may guide your choice of sources for medical topics. --Zefr (talk) 15:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)