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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:00, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Copy and pasting

We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. See also Wikipedia:Copy-paste. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please follow the directions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials to grant license.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:31, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

In this edit[1]

You added "It works by slowing or stopping the growth of bacteria that cause acne and by decreasing swelling. Topical clindamycin is only for use on the skin. Do not swallow the medication, and do not get the medication in your eyes, nose, mouth, or vagina. Topical antibiotics are not very effective alone and work much slower when they are by themselves. "

Which is copied and pasted from https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a609005.html

Which is copyrighted by the ASHP. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:32, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Paraphrasing of this

"Clindamycin is typically safe to use during pregnancy. The properties of clindamycin are unchanged during pregnancy. The drug easily crosses the placenta, and small amounts are secreted in human milk. A study using pregnant women has compared the use of a quinine-clindamycin drug against an artesunate drug. It showed high cure rates and safety for both mother and child."

Was not sufficient compared to

"Clindamycin is generally considered safe for use by pregnant women (10, 12). The pharmacokinetic properties of clindamycin remain unchanged during pregnancy (47). The drug readily crosses the placenta (46) and is secreted in small amounts into human milk (58). A recent study with pregnant women compared a quinine-clindamycin regimen against an artesunate regimen and showed high cure rates and the safety of the regimen for both the mothers and the children"

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:46, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Anyway have gone through and paraphrased it all... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:58, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:18, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Clindamycin

Hi. I see that you have run into some issues with your edits to the Clindamycin article. As you may recall from the training modules, we strongly recommend that you avoid articles ranked as Good or Featured Articles. Unfortunately, since you chose to work on a Good Article, you need to make sure that your additions are well written and conform to the Good Article guidelines.

I recommend that you take a careful look at this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Style guide. You'll notice, for example, that the chemistry section needs to remain further down the page. You should also keep in mind that wherever possible, you should be working from recent review articles, and when that isn't possible, you need to make sure that what you're saying is adequately nuanced. For example, you wrote:

An ongoing study has compared a quinine-clindamycin compound versus a drug used to treat malaria. The study has proven that it is safe for the mother and child. All drugs should be used with caution during pregnancy. Pregnant women are at an increased risk for malaria. Malaria is worse in pregnant women than in nonpregnant women. The child in the womb faces an increased risk of a premature birth and a low birth weight

There are a number of problems with an addition like this

1. The article from Lell and Kremsner is from 2002. If they have continued with their study for the past 17 years, they should have published further on it. Find those sources. If they haven't published anything further, then it's highly unlikely that the study is ongoing.
2. Be very careful with a phrase like "proven safe". You changed "Use of clindamycin during pregnancy is generally considered safe" to "Clindamycin can be safely used during pregnancy...The study has proven that it is safe for the mother and child". That's an awfully strong claim to make, given the meaning of "proven" in the context of scientific studies. What's really problematic though, is that Lell and Kremsner don't make the claim you do - they only say "generally considered safe". You can't draw conclusions from an article that aren't present in the article, and you can't tell readers that something is "proven safe" when it isn't. After all, although it may not always be wise, people come to Wikipedia to understand the drugs they're been prescribed. What you're writing has real-world impacts, and changes like the one you made might make the difference between someone going to their doctor to investigate a possible side-effect and deciding not to because Wikipedia says the drug is proven safe.
3. Don't go into details of the study. Wikipedia articles rarely go into that kind of depth, and if they do, it's because secondary sources have discussed the study as something historically significant, or something similar.

Please keep this in mind as you make your edits. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:25, 14 November 2019 (UTC)