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Practice Editing Here (Nov 23rd in-class Wiki session work)
Article Topic: Polypharmacy
 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).

Citation practice.

Assignment # 3

 * Note: You will be emailing your assignment # 3 directly to your tutor, however, please paste a version here that excludes your personal information. This will allow us to support your efforts on Wikipedia prior to editing "live" in the article.

1. Proposed Changes (2 marks):


 * 1) Restructure the introduction as follows: definition, prevalence, disadvantages, advantages. No editing is to be made to the text. We propose existing information be reorganized.
 * 2) Change the heading “Medical Uses” to “Appropriate Medical Uses”.
 * 3) Remove the “Special Populations” subheading from “Contraindications” to create its own section.

2. Rationale for proposed change (3 marks):


 * 1) As it reads now, we felt the article moved from topic to topic and circled back to previously discussed themes. Due to this back and forth nature, when reading the article for the first time we felt this severely limited its readability. We proposed this to improve the flow and ease of reading of the article.
 * 2) We feel “Appropriate Medical Uses” better describes the content to follow, considering that polypharmacy is a medical topic and is used for medical reasons.
 * 3) “Special Populations” describes populations of individuals who are most impacted by polypharmacy. This is not a contraindication, but a description, and we feel it deserves its own section.

3. Area of controversy (if applicable) (1 mark):


 * Article was restructured for clarity and as such, we do not foresee areas of controversy

4. Critique of source (2 marks):


 * As our changes involved general re-organization to increase the readability, it is difficult to identify a specific source that was utilized. In general, we used our sources as good examples for clarity in reading on the topic.
 * Our secondary sources included a clinical guideline from the WHO (2019) and a systematic review of clinical guidelines by Muth et al (2019). These two literature types represent the highest level of evidence on the hierarchy of evidence. They are both recent articles that represent multiple revisions in this field.

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page?

 * This will also be covered on Nov 23rd in class. Your group should use the below template to share an outline of your proposed improvements (including your new wording and citations). Article talk pages are not places to share your assignment answers. The Wikipedia community will be more interested in viewing your exact article improvement suggestions including where you plan to improve the article (which section), what wording you suggest, and the exact citation (Note: all citations must meet WP:MEDRS)
 * You will not be able to paste citations directly from your sandbox to talk pages (unless you are interested in editing/learning Wiki-code in the "source editing" mode). We suggest re-adding your citations on the talk page manually (using the cite button and populating the citation by pasting in the DOI, website, or PMID). You will have to repeat this process yet again when you edit the actual article live.
 * Talk Page Template: CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2020/Talk Page Template