LucytheDiclonii
Hello, LucytheDiclonii, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction and Getting started
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Cttgaming (talk) 03:01, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Welcome
editWelcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
- Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
- We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do. Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources. (For the difference between primary and secondary sources, see WP:MEDDEF.)
- Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please beware of predatory publishers – check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.
- The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS. The section above the table of contents is called the WP:LEAD. It summarizes the body. Do not add anything to the lead that is not in the body. Style is covered in MEDMOS as well; we avoid the word "patient" for example.
- More generally see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, how to format citations quickly and easily.
- Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
- We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
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- Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
- Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.
Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us! Please share these guidelines with other new editors.
– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 16:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Transitioning (transgender)
editHello Lucy,
I noticed that you made a series of edits at Transitioning (transgender) which represented a lot of work in your sandbox, that was subsequently reverted by another user. This can be disappointing, but it is not an uncommon experience, especially for a new user just starting out. There are a lot of things to learn at Wikipedia, and it takes a while to get familiar with how things work around here, so I hope you'll stick around.
One friendly tip would be to make small edits at first, just one at a time, and see what kind of reception you get. If there's no response after a few days or a week, it probably means you're okay, and can go on with a second edit with that article. While waiting for a reaction, there are plenty of othe rarticles that need attention.
There's another important issue you need to know about concerning this article, which makes it even more difficult for a new editor starting out. There are a few hot-button topic areas within Wikipedia, that tend to draw a lot of controversy or strife, and articles around these topics have a special set of rules which apply to them. Transgender topics are one of these hot-button areas, and any kind of edit, even a single word, will be carefully scrutinized, and the slightest issue may cause you to get reverted. This is a very difficult area in which to learn the ropes, and my advice would be to start your Wikipedia editing with some areas of interest to you personally, that are outside the area of Transgender, gender, feminism, or anything related to that, as you're just likely to be frustrated over and over.
The "special rules" I mentioned, are called ArbCom Discretionary Sanctions, and there's some pre-fabricated boilerplate information I'd like you to be aware of, just so you know, so I'll add that below in a minute. You should read it, because it applies to the Transitioning article (and other similar articles), but it's not directed "at you", it's written for everybody who wants to edit in that area. So don't worry about the wording too much; everybody gets one of these (or should) when they edit those articles.
In the meantime, if you can start editing in another area, you may find that a lot easier, and certainly less frustrating. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, either below, or at my Talk page. Finally, you can create a new section below and ask any kind of question, and include {{Help me}} somewhere in there, and a knowledgeable person will come by and help you out.
Hope this helps, and I hope you like it around here and decide to stay! Mathglot (talk) 03:47, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Notification about ArbCom Discretionary Sanctions on gender-related topics
editHi again, Lucy,
This is the standardized notification I mentioned above.
Please carefully read this information:
The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.
Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.Please have a read-through, and then if you want to delete this notice after you've read it, you can do that. Mathglot (talk) 04:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)