Hello, Jameson.thomas52!
Welcome to Wikipedia! I've seen you at the
Masters and Johnson,
Human sexual response cycle and
Sexual dysfunction articles, and have tweaked your additions to the Human sexual response cycle article. I'm not sure if you are working on these articles as a project assigned by a teacher or just to improve the 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 "Criticisms and Other Models of the Human Sexual Response" heading
you added, for example, the "Other Models of the Human Sexual Response" part should be completely in lowercase; that's why I
tweaked that heading accordingly. You seem to have caught on quickly to that type of formatting, however, as seen with the "Gender similarities and differences" section
you created. 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.)" That's why I took out the "of the Human Sexual Response" part of the aforementioned heading; I think it's clear enough what is meant by "models," and, if it isn't, the section clarifies what is meant. 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." I would advise you to use
WP:REFPUNCT (punctuation before, not after, references) and to avoid
WP:WHITE SPACES (one or more extra white gaps between a section), but you have already followed those guidelines (knowingly or not). So I'll instead advise you on ref names, since you duplicated a Masters and Johnson reference and I fixed the duplication; when duplicating references, you don't have to duplicate the entire reference; this is explained at
Wikipedia:NAMEDREFS#Multiple references to the same footnote. 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
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Flyer22 (
talk) 20:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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