User talk:Anthonna/sandbox

anthonna: great beginning gathering of references! As I mentioned in email- check out the wiki chemicals style guidelines to set up your outline of this topic. The main page for parabens has some of this formating, but it isn't very comprehensive. For the next outline step- see how complete you can make one, then we'll decide which components of it to focus on for this project. Hakeleh (talk) 15:36, 12 October 2011 (UTC)hakeleh

Hakeleh: I made my revised outline as a skeleton structure for my final wikipedia article. As I go along, I plan on writing to replace the bullet points that I came up with; I will continue doing this until my final product is done. I also took your advice and followed the "guidelines for chemistry article" structure by adding the headlines that WIkipedia suggests. I obviously won't be focusing on things like synthesis and properties, but I think it's important to at least introduce these topics so that future editors can add more information. I have a couple questions: FIrst, I was looking at how to cite website references, and Wikipedia seems to suggest the use of DOIs (digital object identifiers) instead of URLs. I'm not sure how to go about locating these for my references. I was also wondering how to make the toxicology section more NPOV. I was reading the guidlines of NPOV and it seems like it will be hard to be unbiased in this section. Much of the research has the negative effects of butylparaben, and the research that is positive is very vague with things like, "butylparaben was not found to be mutagenic based on an ames assay." I was thinking that if I cited a reference for the toxicology data I present it would seem less biased, but other than that I'm not sure. Thanks! anthonna 11:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)anthonna