User talk:Helenma

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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Helenma (talk) 19:04, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Maggie: here is my sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harleengs26/sandbox Harleengs26 (talk) 22:14, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Maggie! This is Kiera — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kieradkeller27 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Helenma, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help.

I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Hey Mags! Connecting Via Wikipedia! So excited to work on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DL-Phosphinothricin Harleengs26 (talk) 22:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Medical articles[edit]

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) 18:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright[edit]

Please be more careful about copying information from other sites as you are violating copyright. I have removed iformation you copied from this site as it only allows non-commercial use, whih is not compatible with Wikipedia's licencing. I've also deleted the photo you uploaded from here as it is not in the public domain. You can't upload 99% of images you find online. SmartSE (talk) 18:09, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your input, I'm still new at uploading images and navigating wikipedia. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for my page on DL-Phosphinothricin

Helenma (talk) 18:27, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, writing is mostly about finding the right sources, but for some topics that's difficult. I see that you've already listed some articles on the talk page but for various reasons, they aren't ideal. The best are academic reviews or specialist books. I've left a couple of good ones on your fellow student's talk page that could be used and there must be more you can find with google books or google scholar. Try searching for various names of the pesticide (phosphinothricin and glufinosate) and add terms like toxicity or environment to try and refine your search. If you use google books, this tool saves loads of time by making the references automatically. More generally, focus on information specific to this herbicide - all herbicides are applied by a sprayer so this isn't relevant to the article. SmartSE (talk) 22:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is another good source that I've used to write about pesticides before. SmartSE (talk) 22:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May 2015[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of (was 31h, now down to about 8.5h left) for long-term disruptive edits, as you did at DL-Phosphinothricin. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. DMacks (talk) 16:07, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]