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Practice Editing Here (Nov 15th in-class Wiki session work)

 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).

Task:


 * 1) Find a peer-reviewed journal article on PubMed. Practice inserting your citation in the above space using the "cite" tool
 * 2) Choose one "B-level" medical article on Wikipedia from the following list: https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Medicine/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=High-Class
 * 3) Practice editing live on Wikipedia by finding a typo in the text or improving the clarity/readability of a sentence by adjusting a few words in a sentence.

Assignment # 3- please post an anonymous copy here!
Proposed Changes

The Research directions section could use updating, specifically the portion detailing chimeric antigen receptor T therapy. Following the 3rd paragraph, the following addition is proposed:

A 2019 study suggests that patients with CLL undergoing immunotherapy with | chimeric antigen receptor T cells have a high clinical response rate.

Rationale for Proposed Change

The rationale for this change is the recency of Cao et al (2019) as it provides a much needed update to the Wikipedia articles’ references from 2011. In addition, the citations in the Wikipedia article refer to non-primary and unreliable medical resources, so this change adds scientific legitimacy. Rather than mentioning chimeric antigen receptor T therapy as “pioneering” research, it can now be recognized in the Wikipedia article as having significant efficacy in the treatment of CLL in clinical trials. There was no ambiguity or controversy for the proposed change about chimeric antigen receptor T therapy. Critique of Sources

The strength of the source for CAR-T therapy makes it difficult to identify validity issues or potential bias. Cao et al (2019) meets Wikipedia’s MEDRS criteria since: the article is a systematic review; it was published in Cytotherapy, an internationally recognized journal; it was published within five years; and no conflicts of interests were disclosed. One weakness could be that the source was not solely focused on CLL as it included other B-cell malignancies such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and lymphomas.

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page (part of assignment 3)

 * This will also be covered on Nov 15th 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 2021/Talk Page Template