CiKay

Hello! I'm not sure if by "introduce" she means use names, but as we were told not to use names, I'm just here to say "Hello!!" DeusetScientia (talk) 19:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Spring 2015

Hi, CiKay! Looking forward to working with you on plastic pollution. Mbeez (talk) 22:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey! I'm looking forward to expanding the plastic pollution page with you! bellre (talk) 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Nice work!

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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. CiKay (talk) 21:12, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

CiKay, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Welcome!

Welcome!

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Medical articles

When editing articles related about medical-related topics, please bear in mind is that the standards for citations for these is higher than the general standard for sources in Wikipedia articles. Focus more on review articles and less on the latest discoveries. Findings like these are very difficult for a non-expert to put in the proper context without synthesizing a whole body of research literature. While we encourage the use of secondary and tertiary sources in general, this is especially important in medical-related topics. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:34, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Oxybenzone

When you're adding material, please try to work from secondary sources (please see the booklet I linked to in the previous section) which actually discuss the issue of how these compounds affect the environment. Simply adding safety information from a source about the safety of the compound isn't the best way to do this; for one, it can end up being original synthesis, which is not allowed in Wikipedia articles, and for another, there's no guarantee that the impacts a compound has on humans (say, in a close room) are the same that it might have once it makes it into a watercourse. So stick to sources that address environmental impacts directly. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)