Rubyj13
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editHello, Rubyj13, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:05, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
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editHi Rubyj13. I got your ping, so I took a look at your sandbox draft. If you wanted my input on something else, please let me know.
The first thing that jumped out at me is that your draft is very close to the source you cited. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation, even if you cite the source. You need to re-state things in your own words; simply changing a few words in a sentence is still a copyright violation if the structure of the sentence is preserved. A second problem is your use of terms like "subject" and "patient". Wikipedia is written for a general audience, not doctors (so not "the patient") and it isn't a research publication (so not "the subject"). In addition, I'm not sure if the source you used is compatible with our guidelines for writing about medical topics, as outlined at WP:MEDRS.
I would strongly recommend that you make sure that you have completed all the training modules required for your course, especially the Editing Medical Topics training module. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:10, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for making some changes to your draft article. However, some of the issues I raised before still stand. For example (bolded text is shared)
- Original source: Procollagen type I propeptides are derived from collagen type I, which is the most common collagen type found in mineralized bone.
- Version 2: P1NP, or procollagen type 1 propeptide is collagen derived from type 1 collagen. In addition, P1NP is the most common type of collagen that tends to be found in bone.
- This is an example of close paraphrasing; as I said above: "simply changing a few words in a sentence is still a copyright violation if the structure of the sentence is preserved".
- In addition, as I mentioned above, your sourcing is not meet the requirements outlined in WP:MEDRS. It would be very helpful if you completed the Editing Medical Topics training module, as I recommended above. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:48, 22 June 2016 (UTC)