Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Tips

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For creating new articles

• Follow all the standard best practices for articles, as outlined at Help:Your first article. See the Help:Introduction tutorials for general editing advice.
• Rigorous sourcing is extremely important for medical articles. Ideal sources include literature reviews or systematic reviews in reliable, third-party, published secondary sources (such as reputable medical journals), recognised standard textbooks by medical experts, or medical guidelines and position statements from national or international expert bodies.
• When drafting, follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles.
• Optionally, add the vaccine safety navbox {{Vaccine safety}}, to the page. If the topic is significant in the scope of the pandemic as a whole, edit the sidebar and navbox to add it to them.
• Don't forget the normal finishing touches, such as categories, a short description, and the {{stub}} stub tag if needed.
• Ensure that the article is not an orphan by linking to it from other vaccine-related pages where it is relevant, Also, add a few relevant redirects.

Resources

• Wikipedia:How to create a page, step-by-step guide for creating a Wikipedia page
• Wikipedia: Contributing to Wikipedia, general introduction to contributing
• Help:Directory, Help directory of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, good practice accepted in Wikipedia community
• Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, a book on Wikipedia editing

Elements to include

• Navbox: If this is the primary focus of the article, add the vaccine safety navbox {{Vaccine safety}}, to the page. '
• Categories: Add categories, a short descriptions, and a {{stub}} stub tag if needed.
• Messages: Other editors have compiled messages commonly included in articles about vaccines, along with their best sources.

User scripts

• The Unreliable/Predatory Sources Detector (WP:UPSD) is a user script for identifying suspect sources used in an article.
• Cite Unseen is a user script that annotates citations with type and context, including predicted reliability.

Messages

There are ready-available messages to include in articles about vaccines, backed up by reliable sources.

Navbox

To embed the navbox in an article use {{Vaccine safety}}: