User talk:Jalausa

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Okay Is this the talk page??JD Johns (talk) 17:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:30, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

Nice work on your draft. Before you merge your additions into the existing barrier nursing article, there are a few things that still need to be done.

1. Your sourcing needs to be improved. When writing about biomedical topics, you should use recent review articles. An article from 1966 (your first reference) or a slideshow from LinkedIn (your second) don't qualify. Similarly, articles from 1984 and 1998 are too old. You also should be working from systematic reviews, not from articles that document single research studies.
2. You need to make sure that your sources are properly formatted. Are you using the cite tool on the visual editor? That will generate proper references, especially if you work from PubMed IDs.
3. Only proper nouns should be capitalized - this is true both in the body of the article, and in the section header titles.
4. You need to make sure that your lead section captures all the major points of the article, and doesn't include anything that isn't present in the body of the article.
5. You need to copyedit your work carefully.

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)