Sodium (Na) is me. I am 18, English, and probably going to become a doctor next year (I have entered for medicine at the Cambridge and London medical schools).
Current top 5 articles I contributed a lot to and think are kinda good ;-)
Human cloning
Stem cell
Gene therapy
Chemotherapy
Pollutant
Richard Feynman
THoughts on Wikipedia
Style/Structure of an article
I wouldn't like to impose what I think works well on anybody else, but in case anybody is interested this is what I tend to follow:
- First sentence/sentences should provide a definition of the subject. It should explicitly state what the item is, not just be, for example, its most common use.
- First paragraph below definition, should provide introduction to article in non-technical language (or introduce technical words with explanation.)
- I leave a 'Further information' heading in bold font at the end of the article. Bullet-pointed, I add sources which go in to more detail on the information in the article (but not necessarily just sites I have used in writing it.)
- I indent my italicised see also: links, which link to other wikipedia articles.
- /Talk goes right at the bottom.
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About continuum spectra: it's actually pretty complicated, as I understand it. The main component at UV-vis-IR wavelengths is black body radiation, which comes from thermal movement of charges, but at X-ray wavelengths there is bremsstrahlung (Breaking radiation, which is caused by electrons decelerating due to atomic nuclei), Compton scattering (photons scattering from electrons), and synchrotron radiation (electrons in magnetic fields).
Perhaps it would be better off being explained in a seperate article, with a link from EM Spectra. I'll have a go when I get the time. -- DrBob
Hi Sodium: Thanks for the reply, I'll let you know what DrBob reckons...
'''Here's the comment, man: I'm going cancel the "
Fundamental Dimensions" revision that you made.
Please leave it in place and add a "comment" as I did here. Thanks'''
little guru
- Why did you create a comment page just for me, am I that important. :-)? If you replace the revision, rewrite it clearer. It is not obvious what the article is about. 'Fundamtenal dimensions' could exist - I am only doing A-level physics, but the text written on the page was either very obvious or covered elsewhere. -- sodium
- ANSWER:So what? Can't I creat a comment page just for you? Yes you ARE important like all the wikipedians here...
You do not create a separate Comment page as well as a Talk, and you don't move somebody elses text there.
- You may be a student, and I may be a teacher. Sometimes to explain really difficult concepts you got to put them in a way that LOOKS obvious, and I can assure you that the SI it's NOT obvious at all...
The article you wrote was full of unnesecary comment and repitition. It had one point (that you can't add different units), and it listed some of the SI units. The SI units have their own page. I don't think you'll find many people attempting to add speed and time.
- Anyway Fundamental is misspelt: it seems that in a subconscious way you underestimate what is fundamental in life.
Yes obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be spending hours on the internet :-). -- sodium
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