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[edit]Welcome 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.
- Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS; for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see the WP:MEDDEF section.) 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.
- We don't use terms like "currently", "recently," "now", or "today". See WP:RELTIME.
- More generally see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, it provides a way to format citations quickly and easily
- Citation details are important:
- Be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books
- Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article, and please format citations consistently within an article.
- Do not use URLs from your university library that have "proxy" in them: the rest of the world cannot see them.
- Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
- We use very few capital letters (see WP:MOSCAPS) and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
- Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities. Avoid overlinking!
- 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
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Usage
[edit]Add this to the talk pages of users who either appear to be new or students and would benefit from this advice. Please substitute this template when adding it to a user talk page, like so:
{{subst:Medical student notice}} ~~~~
Redirects
[edit]Following are templates that redirect here and may be used as shortcuts:
- {{subst:Student}}
- {{subst:Students}}
See also
[edit]- {{Medref}} – adds: "This article needs more medical references for verification or ..."
- {{Medical citation needed}} – adds: [medical citation needed]
- {{Unreliable medical source}} – adds: [unreliable medical source?]
Policies, guidelines, essays, and WikiProjects
[edit]Medicine-specific
[edit]- Vickers, Tim and Eubulides (30 June 2008). "Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine"". The Wikipedia Signpost.
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
- Wikipedia:Reliable source examples § Physical sciences and medicine
- Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
- Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources, external resources useful for writing medicine related content