Patilsaurabhr

squamous epithelioma

Remember, this is for laypersons and many do not know what a "squamous epithelioma" is. Can you link these terms to another page? Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 07:28, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I have it linked now. Thanks for notifying.

P.S. It would be helpful for editors if you include link to the page to be attended.

I'm the one who usually complains about not linking to the article.

You are doing some great work here! It will be much appreciated by all. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:45, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Outbrain

Hello Patilsaurabhr, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Outbrain, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:07, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

JDevil

Can you please provide more information for your tag on the JDevil article? Nbcwd (talk) 13:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Nbcwd! You might like to take look at WP:NPOV. You might also benefit from a tutorial for maintaining a neutral point of view in article. If you have any specific question, please ask freely. -Saurabh P. (talk) 16:35, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The information contained in the article is all verified in reliable sources so I don't understand the "neutral point of view" argument. Everything in the article is verifiable and cited appropriately. There are no opinions or original research in the article. I read WP:NPOV before I wrote the article and the article has no biased opinions or unverifiable information in the article. Show me specifically what is biased in the article so I can change it. Nbcwd (talk) 00:36, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Your contributions on Wikipedia are very much appreciated. It always helps if the communication environment between users is without any fog of misunderstanding or arrogance.

In case of the article JDevil, I have reframed some sentences and made some minor changes to maintain neutral point of view in the article. I have removed the corresponding template indicating disputed POV, but this article still needs to be checked for NPOV by more experienced users.

Also, some tips for you:

• Please review WP:NPOV.
• Please take a look at WP:PROFA, indicating profane words, if essential, should be quoted from original source and should not be used outside quotations.
• Please take a look at WP:LINK, indicating links to same article in which it exist should be avoided and link should appear only once in an article.
• Please take a look at MOS:REF#Repeated citations, to avoid multiplicity of citations with same identity.

Hope that helps,

—— Saurabh P. (talk) 05:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

This helps tremendously! Thanks for the clean up. As I said before, I have reviewed the WP:NPOV many times now and still don't see that what I put was not from a neutral point of view. I didn't know about the WP:PROFA, thanks for the information! The WP:LINK and MOS:REF#Repeated citations are also quite helpful, thanks! I was sure there was a way to repeat a citation rather than having to type the whole thing out for every citation but didn't know how to do it. Appreciate the help Saurabh! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbcwd (talk • contribs) 13:26, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

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Meaning of "RI"

While I agree that Resistance index is a possible meaning of that, it's far from the most common, whereas Rhode Island has long been seen as the WP:PRIMARY meaning of it. Therefore, I undid your change at RI. That's consistent with the start of the resulting Rhode Island page, which states:

"RI" and "R.I." redirect here. For other uses, see RI (disambiguation).

So if a reader isn't interested in that meaning, he will know to click to a page that collects are about two dozen other possible meanings to choose. DMacks (talk) 15:07, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

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Citing sources and creating sections

Hello, Patilsaurabhr. Thanks for helping out around this site. When you add sources, such as you did here to the Vagina article, will you make sure that you fill the reference out better? For example, the year should be included so that editors know how old the source is. See WP:Citing sources for guidance and styles with regard to citations. However, you should make sure to use the same citation style that the article uses. Per WP:Citing sources, "Each article should use the same citation method throughout; if an article already has citations, adopt the method in use or seek consensus on the talk page before changing it (this principle is known as WP:CITEVAR). While you should try to write citations correctly, what matters most is that you provide enough information to identify the source. Others will improve the formatting if needed." That stated, if the article has no consistent citation style, then adding your own citation style is fine. And if you aren't good at adding a certain style that uses citation templates (see Wikipedia:Citation templates), you can ask for formatting help on the article talk page or at some other appropriate Wikipedia page.

Going back to my comment about letting editors know how old a source is, I see that you are a part of WP:MED (like I am). I'm not sure if you are aware, since, judging by some of your contribution history and your talk page, you don't have a lot of interaction with others on Wikipedia, but WP:MED prefers up-to-date sources; the guideline for that is the Use up-to-date evidence aspect of Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). But though anatomy somewhat falls within the WP:MED scope (see, for example, the layouts at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles#Sections), I wouldn't state that sources about the makeup of an organ need to be as recent as "published in the last five years or so, preferably in the last two or three years"...not unless discussing health (such as the makeup of an organ having changed due to disease). After all, the makeups of (bodily) organs are generally the same as they have been for many years.

As for creating sections, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Paragraphs, "Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading." That's why I combined the Supports section you created; it fits fine as part of the General structure section for now. Aspects of that section should of course be broken into their own sections when needed. I also added the word The to the beginning of the sentences in the aforementioned paragraph you created. I'm not sure why you didn't use The. If it's because the text you added is word-for-word from the source, then be aware of Wikipedia:Copyright violations.

Anyway, thanks again. Flyer22 (talk) 15:14, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

About the reference style I used, the VisualEditor does not yet incorporate auto prompt for reference templates. (Bug Tracked here) Therefore, I created a standard reference from the source editor and copied the parsed output to a text-editor for inserting in the article. I add material to articles as I study them from that book. I have now included the year in reference text.

About the paragraphs, I am reading the Manual of style and I will try to follow that from now on.

Also, I never copy text from sources. I take notes from the books and rewrite them in my own words. So there is never a problem of Wikipedia:Copyright violations. I even create certain vector graphics for articles that require them referencing from the book. Take a look at my uploads.

Thanks for the feedback. Have a nice day! ★Saurabh P.  |  ☎ talk 15:54, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware of that problem, and some other problems, with WP:VisualEditor; for example, see this discussion at WP:MED about it: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Archive 35#VisualEditor. I've used that editor twice so far, and don't like it. What do you mean by "I have now included the year in reference text."? You haven't edited the article again yet; I still don't see the year for the source. As for the paragraphs, if there isn't already a section that the material can adequately fit in, then of course creating a section for the single sentence or short paragraph is fine. An alternative is to combine the headings along with combining the sections, if the combination is appropriate; for example, the Location and structure heading that is currently a part of the Vagina article, which the "General structure" section is a subsection of.

Thanks for hearing me out and explaining your actions/view on these things. Flyer22 (talk) 16:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for having added the year, and for doing the same at any other article you added the reference to (such as at the Uterus article). Flyer22 (talk) 20:07, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

As I said previously, I am studying from medical texts and editing related articles in free time. So I keep a standard ref line in a text file like "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. (18th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill 2012. pp. 1–10. ISBN 9780071748896." I then paste the ref text in articles with appropriate page numbers. I simply meant my newer edits will have references with year.

For the paragraph thing, I added a new section, because "General structure" seems too big for paragraph. A reader may find it difficult to find the information unless he uses client's search function (like Ctrl+F in browsers). Anyway, I don't mind your edit at all.★Saurabh P.  |  ☎ talk 20:12, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

I understand. And, when it comes to editing Wikipedia, significantly fixing up the Vagina article (including taking it to WP:Good article status) is one of the things on my to-do list. I will likely divide the General structure section into specifically-named sections, either somewhat or completely. Flyer22 (talk) 20:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hmm. Never noticed that. It might be visual-editor bug. It is lacking major basic features and has huge bugs, so I have decided to stop using it for major edits. Thanks. ★Saurabh P.  |  ☎ talk 16:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

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Panangipalli Venugopal

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Proposed deletion of MyTagram

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