Jackson Frank Wong
Joined 16 January 2018
Latest comment: 6 years ago by MTLE4470 EFP in topic Welcome
| This user is a student editor in Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute/MTLE_4960_Biology_in_Materials_Science_(Spring_2018) . |
Welcome!
editHello, Jackson Frank Wong, 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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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Welcome
editWelcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
- Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
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– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 04:21, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- about this, please review the guidance above carefully. This should have been covered in your training.
- Additionally, when you add content to Wikipedia, please be very careful to distinguish what is actually used in medicine or other applications, and what is being researched. As far as I know there are no bio-fuel cells that are actually used. Yet you wrote "One attractive use for biofuel cells is to provide power for biomedical applications such as pacemakers, prosthetics, and in vivo biosensors which can use blood glucose as a fuel source". Please don't do stuff like that. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 04:23, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Jytdog. I would like to start by thanking you for informing me of guidelines regarding the difference between current medical uses and research. That said, I think much of your criticism is out of line. In the first place, the original Bioelectronics page to which you reverted is simply atrocious; it is uninformative and lacks relevant information, sources, and links to related articles. Regarding the use of primary sources, there is no rule against using primary sources and the information we took from them was relevant and comprehensible. Each of the issues you outline in your comment are simply guidelines, and while they may be useful to standardize formats and do help many pages become readable, they are not hard-and-fast rules. The page we created was far superior to the one we found. I appreciate your taking the time to review our work, but it was entirely unnecessary to remove all of the content we added to the page. In the future, please leave specific comments and edits on the sections with which you take issue. Remember that, while you may have a lot of experience editing in a certain way, the main purpose of Wikipedia is to be a source for accurate, abbreviated knowledge on different subjects, and we believe that the edits we made to the Bioelectronics page helped fulfill this purpose.
- Jackson Frank Wong (talk) 05:06, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- I agree that speculative comments should not be included. For example, it's not ok to write "This might someday be used to cure cancer" on Wikipedia. We need to stick to the facts of what has been established in the field. If the in vivo application is not established, then simply stick to a discussion of what is known in vitro. MTLE4470 EFP (talk) 14:32, 4 May 2018 (UTC)