User talk:Nadkars1

This user is a student editor in The_College_of_New_Jersey/BIO341_Biology_of_Seed_Plants_(Spring_2018) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 03:42, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nishma's Peer Review Comments[edit]

Overall Format: Make sure that you format it the way you intend to publish your information on Wikipedia. For example, I think it would be good to have a general subtopic like you do right now and then for each subsection, you can make headings out of it so that it’s easier to navigate on Wikipedia. I think a lot of these different metabolites have special wikipage dedicated to them where more there is more depth into the topic. It may be helpful to include links to those pages (ie: xxxx).

For consistency purposes, it may be better to include pictures of general structures of compounds for all molecules mentioned.

Citations: I’m not sure if pictures need to be cited – you may want to look into that. Also, I noticed that on all the pages that I looked into on Wikipedia, the citations are after the period. I don’t remember if this is a general wiki rule or what, but just a pointer.

Grammar/ Spelling: suggestions are italicized; I didn’t highlight and make suggestions for all grammar errors. – I included general tips for each type of error that I could find and included an example for each.

Glycosides are composed of functional groups that are bonded to sugars via glycosiding linkages.
Instead of saying “in the concept of pharmacology,” you could just say “they are a class of…”
Right before your first citation of (3)…. “There are many types of plant glycosides used in medication and you can see them detailed below…” you may be able to change that to “… medicine; a brief description of the most prominent ones can be found below.”
When you separate two sentences with a conjunction (i.e.: and, yet, so, but, etc.), you separate them with a comma before the conjunction that you are using - i.e.: (The cat is red, and it is weird). If the “sentences” that come directly before or after aren’t full sentences, you don’t use the comma:
i.e.: “These compounds are responsible for controlling the activity of Na+/K+ ATP-ase pumps in the cell membrane, and are able to treat atrial fibrillation in recent years and also very recently as a cancer therapy.” “These compounds are responsible for controlling the activity of Na+/K+ ATP-ase pumps in the cell membrane, and can treat atrial fibrillation and be used as a cancer therapy drug.” Or “These compounds are responsible for controlling the activity of Na+/K+ ATP-ase pumps in the cell membrane, and they can treat atrial fibrillation and be used as a cancer therapy drug.”
Make sure you have full sentences and proper punctuation.
Under Mono and Sequi-terpenoids…. : in the body of the text, there is no end parenthesis.

Tone: Tone of the article seems fine. There are some areas where you use very strong words to describe the medicinal effects/ applications of these compounds. Just be sure that you aren’t “over-exaggerating” the effects and creating a bias in the article.

Final Comments: The overall Phytopharamcology page is very short and appears to be new. I would suggest making sure you have a well-written transition from the history that is already present on the page to your more biochemical content. Otherwise, I think the article is well-written and there’s a lot of useful information that is succinctly presented. --Shahn27 (talk) 13:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Medical claims[edit]

Hi, many thanks for your attempts to improve Medicinal plants. However, people read and trust Wikipedia on medical matters, so any claims of medicinal effectiveness must be rock-solid, as defined in the mandatory policy WP:MEDRS. Please familiarise yourself with this before adding anything on medical matters. I am sorry to have to bring disappointing news: I have tried to tighten up your material but it all came to bits in my hands, so I'm afraid I have had to revert all of it. It will be best to proceed slowly, adding one definite fact at a time. Note that the existence of some in vitro trial of a plant does not prove that a compound or a plant extract is usable as a medicine. Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:00, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please review and share with your fellow students this tutorial as a guide for sourcing medical topics. --Zefr (talk) 13:45, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]