User talk:Cesar Livermore

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Welcome!

Hello, Cesar Livermore, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:48, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

December 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Alternative medicine, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please review WP:MEDRS, the guideline for choosing high-quality sources on WP medical topics. The journal you used and the content added are not MEDRS-quality. Zefr (talk) 15:53, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you Zefr. Cesar, here are some notes:

1. This is a health and medicine related topic area, so you need to review this training module before doing any further editing.
2. Studies should generally be avoided unless they're accompanied with a secondary source that reviews the study or comments upon the specific claim that is being stated. The reason for this is that studies are primary sources for any of the claims and research conducted by their authors. The publishers don't provide any commentary or in-depth verification, as they only check to ensure that the study doesn't have any glaring errors that would invalidate it immediately. Study findings also tend to be only true for the specific people or subjects that were studied. For example, a person in one area may respond differently than one in an area located on the other side of the country. Socioeconomic factors (be they for the person or a family member) also play a large role, among other things that can impact a response. As such, it's definitely important to find a secondary source, as they can provide this context, verification, and commentary. Aside from that, there's also the issue of why a specific study should be highlighted over another. For example, someone could ask why one study was chosen as opposed to something that studied a similar topic or had different results.
3. Be extremely, extremely careful with sourcing when it comes to medicine related topics, especially alternative medicine. Not all sourcing is seen as reliable and not all journals are reliable either - alternative medicine journals are kind of iffy, so it's always a good idea to ask if something is reliable at the medicine WikiProject or one of the Wikipedia Experts.
4. Only mark something as a minor edit if you are doing something small, such as fixing a spelling or grammatical error. Adding new content is seen as a non-minor edit.

Zefr may have some other notes for you, but I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)