Hello, 8bjr4!
Welcome to Wikipedia! I've seen you at the
Hormone replacement therapy (menopause) and
Sexual dysfunction articles, and will be tweaking your additions to those articles if you do not. I assume that you are working on these articles as a project assigned by a teacher rather than to improve these articles on your own accord, but I welcome you all the same and offer the following advice: See
WP:Manual of Style. Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters, you should make sure that headings you add are not inappropriately capitalized. For the "HRT and Sexuality" heading
you added, for example, the "Sexuality" part should be in lowercase; that's why I will tweak that heading (and the other one you added) accordingly if you do not do so first. In
this edit, you used appropriate heading format. Also, per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings, "Headings should not refer redundantly to the subject of the article, or to higher-level headings, unless doing so is shorter or clearer. (
Early life is preferable to
His early life when
his refers to the subject of the article; headings can be assumed to be about the subject unless otherwise indicated.)" Further, as
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Paragraphs states, "The number of single-sentence paragraphs should be minimized, since they can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, paragraphs that exceed a certain length become hard to read. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading." You should also use
WP:REFPUNCT (punctuation before, not after, references) and to avoid
WP:WHITE SPACES (one or more extra white gaps between a section). The only other specific guideline I feel the need to point you to is
WP:MEDRS, which is the standard for sourcing medical topics (in addition to typical health aspects/biological topics, the guideline also covers psychological and psychiatric topics because those are also medical aspects; the most recent sources are preferred for some aspects). In addition to the guideline links above, I believe that you will benefit from clicking on some or all of the tutorial, guideline and policy links below, which will help you familiarize yourself with aspects of Wikipedia that you are unfamiliar with or need to better familiarize yourself with. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page, or place
{{helpme}} on your
talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to
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or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "
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edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing!
Flyer22 (
talk) 18:37, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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