User talk:Rixxccal
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!
[edit]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! PeaBrainC (talk) 08:01, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
See also sections
[edit]Hi Rixxccal. Thanks for contributing to the project. I noted your contributions at Cardiac surgery and saw you had made similar contributions to Anesthesia, Endoscopy, Hypnosurgery, Surgical Outcomes Analysis and Research, and Surgical sieve, all in the form of adding to the See also: sections. For Wiki pages on medical articles we have a manual of style which can be found at WP:MEDMOS. As you will see, in contrast to articles on some other topics, for medical articles we try to avoid "See also" sections. If another page is related to the article you are editing then it is often better to provide a link to that page in the body of the text in a relevant section, perhaps in a section on differential diagnosis, or related procedures, or wherever it fits. The manual of style is a little daunting, but I hope you keep contributing. Thanks, PeaBrainC (talk) 08:16, 27 May 2020 (UTC)