Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!

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Welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).

We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:

  • Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
  • Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
  • The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.

Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages!

Please note: articles on food and nutrition are within the category of medicine, and require strong sources as described in the guide WP:MEDRS. Please don't use popular lay websites to support content on food and nutrition. --Zefr (talk) 17:54, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

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For all your work to improve Wikipedia. You are catching on very quickly. If you wish feel free to stop by and say hello to the rest of the medical editing community at WT:MED :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

One comment on this source[1]. We tend to not use ADAM as it is not very good plus is not produced by the NIH (they have just bought a license to it). Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:14, 8 November 2018 (UTC) Zefr (talk) 17:52, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Welcome!

Hello, Sunline09, 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:

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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 ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!--Biografer (talk) 15:21, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Drive-by tagging

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Friendly advice: If you slap the {{npov}} tag on an article, as you did to Atkins diet, it's a good idea to explain why you did that on the talk page, else you'll be reverted (which has been done). ~Anachronist (talk) 15:53, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hey thanks for the advice! I appreciate it! Sunline09 (talk) 16:27, 17 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

References

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Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

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.

  1. 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
  2. Then click on "templates",
  3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
  4. 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) 15:37, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi Doc James (talk),

Thank you so much for this information, I really appreciate the help! I'll read through these guidelines and let you know if I have any questions in the future. Thanks again! Sunline09 (talk) 14:42, 6 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Quotation marks

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Please note that Wikipedia uses the "logical quotation" style in all articles, regardless of the variety of English in which they are written. Based on your recent edits to List of The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon characters appears that you are used to the American practice of putting punctuation inside quotation marks regardless. Please refer to MOS:LQ for guidance on how this is applied in articles. --AussieLegend () 17:47, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

DS alert

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in the Electronic cigarette topic area. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

QuackGuru (talk) 21:02, 23 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Please provide all the new sources on the talk page. QuackGuru (talk) 21:50, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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