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Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
2. 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.)
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. More generally see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, how to format citations quickly and easily.
6. Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
7. We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
8. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
9. Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
10. Please format citations consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW for how to format citations.
11. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
12. 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) 04:49, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Please do read the links in the message above. The paper you are trying to add is not OK per WP:MEDRS, which is something that the editing put in place for very good reasons.

There is a learning curve to working in Wikipedia - there are many ways it departs from the kind of writing you are probably used to generating. I wrote User:Jytdog/How to try to explain this to new editors in an efficient way.

In addition, please you may also find WP:EXPERT helpful.

But please do read the welcome message above, and please read and follow WP:MEDRS. Please. Jytdog (talk) 14:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

PoseDoc, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi PoseDoc! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like Mz7 (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Why MEDRS?

P - On many health topics, it is possible to find clinical trials that support one side or the other (glucosamine helps with osteoarthritis, or does not). Hence, a strong recommendation not to create content with citations for individual clinical trials, or pre-clinical, case studies, etc.

P.S. Many of the editors here are MDs and PhDs in academia. Our credentials count for naught. What does count is supporting statements with suitable reviews, systematic reviews or meta-analyses from reputable journals. David notMD (talk) 10:54, 13 May 2018 (UTC)