RyanCornell28
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editHello, RyanCornell28, 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) 16:06, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN.
- While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
- Then click on "templates",
- Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
- If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".
We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:22, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you Doc James! RyanCornell28, we have a training module about this here. While your writing does deal with the history of the topic to a certain extent, it's always important to use the strongest possible sourcing that you can find for any given topic, especially one like this. For example, you cannot use Wikipedia as a source to back itself up. The site is always changing and as anyone can edit, it will never really be at a specific state where it could be seen as reliable. Popular press sources can be usable to back up historical information, but it's important to make sure that the site itself is routinely seen as reliable. An example of this would be that while Discover Magazine would be generally usable for some things (more on that in a minute), the website musicians4africa.com doesn't look to be reliable since we can't guarantee its editorial oversight and verification policies, or see who writes the content. The Box Houston is kind of iffy. It may be usable for very basic historical information, but not anything else. The main issue with Box Houston is that there are very likely stronger sources out there that can be used for this topic area.
- On the topic of what can be used for what, you need to make sure that you're not using popular press sources to back up things such as data figures or any medical claims. For example, you can use a popular press source to back up the claim that a specific person spoke out about HIV/AIDS, but you can't use it to back up a claim that X percent of people during the 1980s had HIV/AIDS, if that makes sense. You should also make sure that you're only summarizing what's in the source itself.
- I hope that this sheds more light on why the material was removed! The training module and the links that Doc James provided go into more depth about this, but I wanted to give more of a general overview of things. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:26, 7 May 2019 (UTC)