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Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!
editWelcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:
- Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
- Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
- The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.
Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Zefr (talk) 15:14, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Editing medical topics with reliable sources
editHello -- your December edits on Curcumin indicate you were inclined to use preliminary research – similar to writing a graduate degree thesis or Discussion section of a research paper – rather than writing established facts for an encyclopedia. Even for the Research section in the Curcumin article, systematic reviews of high-quality human research are needed, not animal studies or small clinical trials that remain far from established scientific positions and clinical practice. Here is the Wikiproject Medicine tutorial for new medical editors that may guide you further. If you have questions or comments, make them here and I will answer. Good luck. --Zefr (talk) 15:21, 9 January 2019 (UTC)