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editHello, Atc424, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:56, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
If you add treatment information, you need to use WP:RSMED sources. Jim1138 (talk) 01:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Also, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Fringe theories Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 01:57, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- Please do not introduce your own opinions to the encyclopedia (your draft "herbology in America"); see WP:OR. --Zefr (talk) 03:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi! I wanted to weigh in and also give you a word of caution on copyright. It looks like you used a rather large quote in your work, which set off the copyright/plagiarism detector. Quotes should be small and very necessary to the article- anything longer than a brief sentence runs the risk of being considered a copyright violation, so it's always best to write content in your own words. When you use smaller quotes, it's best to reserve those for when you are quoting someone directly as in cases where a person or organization release an official statement - things that cannot be easily summarized in your own words. The way you used them in the article isn't the way that they're used on Wikipedia, as the material was content that could be re-written in your own words. I would like for you to re-review the plagiarism and copyright module before going further.
- Now as far as the content goes, all work needs to be sourced well - especially content that deals with medical and scientific information. The sources need to explicitly back up the claims in the article and they also need to be the best possible sources. This is because unsourced claims are considered to be original research on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to anything related to medicine and science.
- Be careful of primary sources, as they are not always the best sourcing to use in an article. For example, a research study can claim something but we cannot prove that their claims are accurate based on just that study - the study would really only be usable once it's been discussed in an independent reliable source, such as an academic or scholarly journal article that discusses the study's findings and their merit - and especially whether or not the findings can be reproduced in an identical study.
- You also need to be careful to avoid any sources that could be considered unreliable - always make sure that the source is the highest possible source. For example, this site would be considered a self-published source on Wikipedia because it doesn't have any information about its editorial oversight. That the site's terms & conditions page says that they don't take any responsibility for the content on their site gives off the strong impression that they post content "as is" without verifying anything - meaning that someone could include something obviously false and incredibly dangerous, yet they would likely not challenge the author of the work. When it comes to anything that deals with health, medicine, and science, you need to make sure that the source is of the highest quality - it's best to avoid self-published sources in this area and stick more to academic and scholarly texts and journals.
- We do have a module that goes over editing medical related topics, which I would like you to go over. It discusses the topics I mentioned above and it would definitely be helpful in this situation. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)