User talk:Ckennerly

COI

As you have a conflict of interest please do not edit the article directly. Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:23, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Visual Editor

Hi Cameron, I'm curious about this edit you made to COPD, where the wrong references were attached. I assume you were using the Visual Editor, which is relatively new, so I would like to forward the example to the developers, because the wrong references being attached is a major issue. I can't figure out why it would have added those numbers to references outside the section you were editing.

Would you mind taking me through what you did, or intended to do, if you can remember? SarahSV ^(talk) 19:30, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Sure SarahSV I'll try my best to explain. When editing...

1) I start on the COPD page and go to the research section and hit "edit" 2) From there (and within visual editor mode) I copied my original edit:

"In recent years, treatment using stem cells has undergone a gradual shift from animal to human studies. [160] Although animal studies have shown promising results--proving efficacy in repopulating airway and alveolar epithelial cell lineages during homeostasis and repair--more clinical testing in humans is necessary to better understand the reparative mechanisms currently exhibited in rats. [161][162][163] Though treatment effectiveness in humans can vary, stem cell therapy and its ability to reduce systemic inflammation and reprogram developmental pathways to induce lung regeneration may be proven a risky but promising pathway.[164]

3) I deleted the placeholder references (For example: [160]) and hit the CITE button above and searched for each reference through the "Re-Use" list, then typed in 160, scrolled through the drop-down list and clicked it to insert.

I did that for all 5 references (160, 161, 162, 163, 164) and saved my changes.

I hope this was helpful. --Ckennerly (talk) 21:30, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Cameron, that's very helpful. I don't use VisualEditor, so I'm going to go into it and try to reproduce what you did. Thanks again, SarahSV ^(talk) 21:48, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

I tried to reproduce it. I think you may have scrolled down to the wrong sources in the "reuse" list. Perhaps you were using old numbers (e.g. ref 160), and those numbers had changed. It's worth pointing out to the developers anyway, because it's easily done.

If you decide to edit other articles, you might consider using the wikitext editor instead. It's hard to read the text if there are a lot of citation templates (that's most medical articles), but if it's an article that isn't so densely cited, it's quite a bit easier. SarahSV ^(talk) 23:09, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey SarahSV thanks for the suggestion! I saw your comment on the COPD talk page that you found the referenced source article. Did you only need that article in particular or did you need the rest of them as well? Ckennerly (talk) 13:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for sending those. Very interesting. SarahSV ^(talk) 05:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)