User:Alabrutto/sandbox

Paragraph: Set the style of your text. For example, make a header or plain paragraph text. You can also use it to offset block quotes.

A : Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The “More” options allows you to underline (U), cross-out text (S), add code snippets ( { } ), change language keyboards (Aあ), and clear all formatting ( ⃠ ).

Links: Highlight text and push this button to make it a link. The Visual Editor will automatically suggest related Wikipedia articles for that word or phrase. This is a great way to connect your article to more Wikipedia content. You only have to link important words once, usually during the first time they appear. If you want to link to pages outside of Wikipedia (for an “external links” section, for example) click on the “External link” tab.

Cite: The citation tool in the Visual Editor helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the Visual Editor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Once you've added a source, you can click the “re-use” tab to cite it again.

1. Bullets: To add bullet points or a numbered list, click here.

My shih-tzu. He's keeping me going throughout this project.

Insert: This tab lets you add media, images, or tables.

Ω: This tab allows you to add special characters, such as those found in non-English words, scientific notation, and a handful of language extensions.♦

Article Evaluation

Evaluating the article on Endocrinology.

The article seems to have all of the necessary sections, and most of the necessary information. Considering that this is only the second week of taking a course on Endocrinology, I definitely would not consider myself an expert. But everything looks factual, from what I know.

All of the citations are from what seem to be reputable sources spanning several years up to the present. Except: I checked through the talk page and someone apparently left a little bit of their own writing from their dissertation in hopes that it would both add to the article and "provide a bit of free proofreading," which is kind of against Wiki editing policies. It wasn't signed off on so there is no telling where their writing was added into the article.

Picking My Article

I think I've narrowed down my options to three potential pages to work on:

1. Gender dysphoria, C rating
2. Chronic stress, S rating
3. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, S rating

DRAFTING: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

>>>Link to the article<<<

Date: March 11th

Note: I spent the entirety of Spring Break in Kentucky without wifi/my laptop; so the time that I've had to work on this both pre- and post-Break has been limited. Forgive me if this isn't a whole lot of information to peer review.

Advice from McKittrick: Address biases that are found. Use the information that is there, but also don't hesitate to be like "but there have been counterarguments made...etc." 

Date: March 16th

Everything is addressed in a Word doc in which all of my changes were tracked and potential/already-made corrections are color-coded. Comments are made all along the side of the document; what is written below is just what I initially copied and pasted from the live Wiki page, and is what the Wiki page looks like as of today. I have made two legitimate changes to the live article so far, and they were just adding in links to already-existing Wiki articles in the appropriate places. In the Medication section under Treatment, I added links to the venlafaxine and SNRI pages, as those links did not exist previously. In the doc, I made comments in the margin to myself to go and make those changes, and those comments have been manually resolved (they're sorta grayed out in comparison to the other changes and comments that are still in the margins).

The Word doc is the primary source for all changes and issues that I saw in my initial read-through of the original article text. After the peer review is over, and I make all necessary changes in the doc, I will edit everything below in my sandbox and later go on to make the real edits to the article (obvious chain of events, but it's good to write it out).

*******One thing I did in my edits was to make the language more gender neutral. On the Talk page of the PMDD article, the only discourse was started by a user in May 2018, wherein they asked that editors of the page help them in getting rid of all of the generalizations throughout the article wherein women are cited as the only people who can suffer from the disorder. They are completely right in their request, and also in the logic behind it: not everyone who has a uterus identifies as a woman, and consequently not everyone who suffers from PMDD would be a woman either. The commenter wants to use the term "AFAB people" in place of "women," and another user replied saying that AFAB would then have to be explained and that information may not be directly relevant to the topic of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. As a happy medium, in my edits I will replace "women" with "people" in the parts where the info is specifically focused on those who suffer from PMDD, and keep the words "woman" or "women" in the parts where the social, political, and economic implications of being a woman and being diagnosed with PMDD are addressed. I will not touch on the topic of the implications of diagnosis in those who don't identify as women but suffer from PMDD in any context within this article because I am not an expert on the subject, nor is this project for a gender studies class, so overall it is not my place to do so.

Draft: Anne Marie's PMDD Sandbox