User talk:NehemiahAnkoor

Just in case
Just in case you don't have WT:MED on your WP:Watchlist, I replied there. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk) 20:15, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * FYI, I don't think my comments there sound very welcoming. I'm sorry about that! I was a bit "overworked" at the time. ;-) Best wishes to you. It's not a problem if you work on nutritional transition at all. In fact, I welcome it! My comments there focus on trying to do the most good with limited time. Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 00:03, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That's good to hear. The WP:LEAD will be a summary of the entire article, and perhaps you could include a half-"lead" or so (focused to each topic, whether it is malnutrition or human nutrition) in WP:SS, when you're at the point of trying to WP:Build the web. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk) 07:29, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Reference names
See WP:REFNAME if you need to. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 16:28, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * And you don't have to use quotations marks, but if you do, I think they have to be consistent. I always use the straight ones, I see you're using slanted ones. That's adding an extra level of complication for you, FYI. =) Biosthmors (talk) 16:35, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Also see WP:HEADINGS. They shouldn't be capitalized. Biosthmors (talk) 16:30, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Hopefully changing that will help because I did exactly what the WP:REFNAME was saying for multiple citations of the same source and I was still getting the error message. NehemiahAnkoor
 * Yeah I tried and it fixed it. Not sure why it wasn't working, but then again, I never use that type of quotation marks. I only use the ones in-between my semicolon and enter key on my keyboard. And I always type them into the edit box myself. (Maybe using Microsoft Word and copy-pasting did it?) Biosthmors (talk) 16:45, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Feedback?
Would you like feedback on your article? One concern I have at this point is that you might be able to have a better encyclopedia article with many fewer words. Are you under pressure, because of a grade, to write expansively? Biosthmors (talk) 16:55, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

If you have content you've developed that would be better off at obesity, for example, consider dropping it of at the article you think might benefit. That way it isn't lost, and you don't have to worry if it is appropriate or not. You can just leave a note about how you were working on this article, etc. Biosthmors (talk) 17:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. We have a 2000 word minimum for this assignment but this is just my first draft of the article. I plan to slim it down more and reorganize the some of the sections and subsections so that it is easier to navigate. I also plan to take pockets out and put them in other pages like you suggest. Hopefully by doing so, it will increase traffic to the Nutrition transition page and make it look less daunting to read. NehemiahAnkoor


 * Sounds good. When do you plan on being finished? Right now I think the article has too many subsections in the "Case studies" section, and sometimes it doesn't state facts. For example, "Reports based in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and developed areas of sub-Saharan Africa are easy to find", doesn't actually impart any other information to the reader than saying, "The author saw a lot of results in a database search". Does that make sense? I'm not saying there is any compelling reason to use those sources. I don't know the literature. I don't know if they should be cited or not. I'm just saying that isn't a helpful fact to the reader, is it? Also, nutrition transition is an academic concept, can you even have a case study on it per se? Or is that your interpretation of the literature (potential WP:OR). I'm not clear on that. Also Wikipedia is not concerned with how research is done, unless one goes to the case study page. Readers just want the facts. Does that help? Best! Biosthmors (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2012 (UTC)


 * And see WP:CHEAT for how to sign your talk page posts. =) Biosthmors (talk) 00:28, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Talk pages
Just a little suggestion, you can use the "new section" tab on most talk pages to start a new section. if you do decide to use the "edit" tab (which allows you to edit everything) it is considered good practice to put your new section at the bottom of the talk page. otherwise, your edits look good. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ] #_ 19:14, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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