Eric.setzer
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editHello, Eric.setzer, 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) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
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editWelcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
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– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Moved
editMove some of the details here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_hearing_loss#Education
But we need better sources. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Can you please follow the above
editBest Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- User:Shalor (Wiki Ed) can you help provide some guidance to this class? Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hearing loss
editHi, I wanted to help explain why your edits were moved to a new page. Ultimately I think that it is because the content was too detailed for the hearing loss article. The hearing loss article is meant to be more of a general overview of the overall topic of hearing loss, which in turn means that the article won't go too overly deep into some areas of this, such as how hearing loss is managed via things like education and assistive devices, as there is already an article that goes into more depth about this. What Doc James did was move this content to the main page on the management of hearing loss, where it would be better suited since it goes into quite a bit of depth about education. Another issue is that the content looks to be undersourced, so it would be a good idea to add more sourcing in general.
Also, I would like you to review this training module on editing health related topics. While this does go into more of a social/history aspect than medical per se, it's definitely good to keep the points in this module in mind. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:36, 9 May 2019 (UTC)