User talk:Shahn27

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Hello, Shahn27, 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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Suggestions
For any edits on jasmonic acid: make sure you know your chemistry (or ask your teacher) and adhere to WP:SECONDARY. --Smokefoot (talk) 23:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Feedback
When you're writing about medical topics, you need to make sure that you are in compliance with the sourcing requirements for medical articles. You also, as Smokefoot indicated above, need to rely on secondary sources, and make sure that you are using sources that actually support what you're using them to say. For example


 * The first source sentences are supported by a paper entitled "Phytochemical Analysis of Medicinal Plants Occurring in Local Area of Mardan". The scope of this paper is medicinal plants around the town of Mardan, and even for that it's a primary source. While it contains a very brief literature review, it doesn't attempt to look at the literature in a systematic fashion.
 * More importantly, most of the statements in those four sentences are not supported by this source. Using a source to support things it doesn't say is a significant issue. People may interpret that as an attempt to mislead.
 * That source also doesn't support the final sentence.
 * You shouldn't be reporting on preliminary findings. The Fingrut and Flescher paper paper is from 16 years ago - there's been more than enough time for people to look into this bioactivity in more depth. Has this panned out? If so, there's going to be a lot of much more recent literature.
 * Your second reference is a link that goes through your university's proxy server. It isn't accessible to anyone outside your university. Please use DOIs instead of these kinds of links to generate references. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:42, 26 March 2018 (UTC)