User talk:Researchmaven

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Again, welcome! —Internoob (Disc.•Cont.) 01:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

symptom journal
There were a few mistakes in that entry:
 * First, and possibly most important, the definition was way too long. Definitions should only include basic information on what a word means. You had information about why it is useful, and that does not belong in a dictionary. See What Wiktionary is not.
 * The de facto policy on Wiktionary is not to use HTML tags if some wikimarkup syntax can do the same job. Thus, bold generates thesame as bold, and the latter is to be preferred.

—Internoob (Disc.•Cont.) 01:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Some more things. I had to end my last post prematurely because I was interrupted.


 * In sections like ====Synonyms==== and ====Related terms====, include words that have to do with the entry title, not with the constituent words. Thus, all sizzle and no steak has all hat and no cattle as a synonym, and does not have beef as a synonym for steak.
 * You do not need to repeat the entry title in the pronunciation section.

Keep these things in mind for the next time. :)

—Internoob (Disc.•Cont.) 03:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)