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07:30, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Please read medical referencing criteria

See WP:MEDRS. Allowable referencing for medical/health articles does not include individual clinical trials (or pre-clinical, or in vitro). I removed the three you had added to Long-term effects of alcohol consumption. When describing meta-analyses or systemic reviews, do not over-detail on the description of the study: don't need year, or number of trials incorporated, or cumulative number of subjects, or duration. I shortened your addition on Roereck accordingly. Punctuation goes before the ref, not after. I hope you continue to find articles of interest to you, and work toward improving those. David notMD (talk) 12:03, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you David for the feedback. I had no idea that I am not allowed to include findings from clinical trials. I will read the guide now. Thanks again.

Hi David. I have read the referencing criteria again. It doesn't forbid to report findings from clinical trials, just in-vitro study results. I showed the page to some of my colleagues and they agreed with me. Am I missing something? Please let me know. Thanks!

No hyperlinks in body of article

At Short-term effects of alcohol consumption you inserted two hyperlinks directly into the text of the article. These should be removed and reformated as references. David notMD (talk) 13:05, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did both. David notMD (talk) 10:50, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User pages and other advice

Establishing a User page: Optional, but you may want to create your User page. Briefly, Wikipedia:User pages are a place editors use to describe their intentions and activities as editors. Can be short or elaborate. See mine as example. One option is to use existing Userboxes. See Wikipedia:Userboxes. My suggestion is don't get too deep into this - sometimes new editors spend more of their time on the User page and very little editing articles. David notMD (talk) 10:53, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another contention when leaving comments at articles' Talk, your Talk or other editors' Talk pages is to use increasing numbers of : at the start of your comment. This indents. David notMD (talk) 10:53, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And do take a look at the Talk pages for high profile articles. Often, contentious content has been debated and settled, and need not be added or subtracted from the article again. David notMD (talk) 10:53, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing

I repaired some of your referencing. A tool I find useful: After finding an article at PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) I copy the PMID number (eight digits except on older articles, seven digits). I then go to https://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi and enter the PMID number. This generates a reference. There are other reference-creating tools, but this one is one of the standard versions for medical referencing. David notMD (talk) 11:15, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine

Hi, I noticed your question on the WikiProject Medicine talk page. That is great that you reached out there. I see that David_notMD has been helping you as well. He is very experienced in helping new editors. Wikipedia editing is a little different from writing for a review article in an academic setting, but, in my opinion it is a very worthwhile place to share high quality evidence to improve the reliability of what people are accessing online. Check out this tool that shows you how many people each day (and year) view the articles you edit: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=wiki.riteme.site&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Alcohol_and_health If you have any more questions please do keep reaching out to the community. JenOttawa (talk) 02:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!

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! JenOttawa (talk) 02:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]