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Hello, I am an online ambassador who you can ask about anything by using my talk page, or email if you do not want others to see what you want to say. I will also be keeping an eye on what what editing you do on Wikipedia in this course, and will lend a hand or have a chat. I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia and can make a difference to our content! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Marleny

I think I am finally getting the hang of this wiki page. Good luck this semester. I'm exciting about the project!

Hello Marleny

I think I am finally getting the hang of this wiki page. Good luck this semester. I'm exciting about the project! OOOppssss I forgot to sign!Nkhudgens (talk) 21:44, 30 January 2012 (UTC)Nkhudgens

You are engaged last time I checked.

I'm glad to know that you have an awesome fiance' and great friends too. I look forward to your encouragement this semester as we get started on our interdisciplinary project!Nkhudgens (talk) 21:46, 30 January 2012 (UTC)Nkhudgens

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Please sign in on the list for the class page. Now that I know who you are, I'll award your 5 points! Waterbug42 (talk) 21:08, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Mespinos, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 20:09, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Critique and suggestion for HPV vaccine page

I would like to thank the contributors for their additions to the wiki page for the HPV vaccine. The page appears to be an overall good resource for information regarding the vaccination. M Espinosa, I think you are doing better at navigating regarding your overall use in wiki (for instance, not signing your added content). You sound like a true biology major when describing the composition of the virus. Good job, but watch your grammar. An example of this error is where it is stated that, “The virus posses a circular”. The additional citations to the “mechanism of action” were helpful to validating the previous information. I have a few suggestions that I feel would further improve the page. I think it would be helpful if a direct wiki link was added to provide more detailed information on HPV-16 and HPV-18 (the two types of HPV that cause most of the cervical cancers) and HPV-6 and HPV-11 (the viruses that cause most genital warts). The page requires some additional citations such as where it is stated that ‘Merck, will continue to test vaccinated women to evaluate the vaccine's efficacy over a lifetime’. That is a major commitment from the product manufacturer and it would be nice to easily retrieve and validate that information. Throughout the page, it references both Gardasil and Cervarix which are the two current vaccines for HPV. I think the page would flow better if most of the information for the two vaccines were placed in two separate, distinct sections perhaps titled “Gardasil” and “Cervarix” respectively. This would also make it much easier to find information regarding the differences/similarities in the two vaccines. I’m not sure that the “History” section should be so far down on the page, as I would like to know the history behind the vaccination earlier on if I were reading just to gain general information. There is a request to update information regarding the state vaccination legislation and deems it “outdated”. The page states that, ‘The National Conference of State Legislatures issues summaries of HPV vaccine related legislation’. Perhaps this would be a good starting point of reference for current legislation and additional states can be added to the chart. Therefore, I strongly suggest that you update the information in the “state by state” section with the most current information available. There is a table that details ‘the approximate new cases of cancers attributed to HPV in 2002’. I think it would be nice if there were also a graph or table that detailed the approximate number of those vaccinated since the initial approval and administration of the vaccine. The addition of a table that depicts more recent data regarding the current number of HPV attributed cancer cases would also be great. This would allow an easy comparison and enable the reader to readily see if there has been a downward trend in cancer cases since vaccinations have become prevalent. By the way, a woman that is 45 may not take too kindly to finding information regarding her vaccination under the section titled, “older women”. I look forward to following your continued progress and input. I will be “watching”! ;-) Nkhudgens (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to HPV vaccine does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks!

If you are moving a section within an article it is easier to follow in the edit history if you do it in a single edit (i.e. edit the whole article, cut the section to be moved and paste it in new location). In that case the edit summary could be something like "Moved history section" and then give reason for move. See for instance the edit summary where I undid the move, indicating the WP:MEDMOS recommendations for section order in medication articles as reason to have history section where it is. Zodon (talk) 21:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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