User talk:Chenby.wp
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[edit]Hello, Chenby.wp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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- How to write a great article
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, an essay from PLOS Computational Biology
- Identifying reliable sources for medicine-related articles (general advice)
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style for medicine-related articles (general style guide)
- A few tricks to help you format references are at WP:MEDHOW
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Welcome
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled a list of guidance for new editors:
- Use high quality sources for medical content. This is described at WP:MEDRS. High quality sources include review articles (note this is not the same as peer reviewed), position statements from national and internationally recognized bodies (think CDC, WHO, NICE, FDA, etc), and major medical textbooks. Lower quality sources may be removed.
- References go after not before punctuation (see WP:MOS)
- We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
- Do not use the url from the inside net of your university library. The rest of the world cannot see it.
- If you use textbooks we need page numbers.
- Please format your references as explained at WP:MEDHOW or like the ones already in the article. This is simple once you get the PMID / ISBN.
- Every sentence can be referenced. We reference more densely than other sources.
- Never "copy and paste" from sources. We run copy and paste detection software on new edits.
- Section order typically follows the instructions here at WP:MEDMOS
- Please talk to us. Wikipedia works by collaboration and this takes place on the talk pages of both articles and user.
Again welcome and thank you for joining us.
P.S. Please share this with fellow new editors.
James Heilman a.k.a User:Doc James
MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of British Columbia
and
The Team at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:53, 14 August 2015 (UTC)