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Practice Editing Here (Nov 23rd in-class Wiki session work)

 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).
 * Name of Wiki Article: "Penile cancer"
 * This is a practice statement to add a citation.

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.
 * Proposed changes: The treatment section on our “Penile Cancer” Wikipedia article currently does not have any citations. I have found a secondary source to provide citable evidence to this section and will be adding an introductory statement regarding surgical treatment of penile cancer.   The citation I will be adding is:  Engelsgjerd, J. S., & LaGrange, C. A. (2020). Penile Cancer. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.  My proposed added introductory statement at the start of the treatment section is:  “Treatment of penile cancer will vary depending on the clinical stage of the tumor at the time of diagnosis. The gold standard for treatment of primary penile tumors is surgical removal.”
 * Rationale for proposed change: Treatment of penile cancer depends on the stage of the tumour and this must be emphasized at the very start of the treatment section. Additionally, there are no citations in this section so adding one of my secondary sources will improve credibility.
 * Area of controversy: Not applicable. To the best of my knowledge, I cannot identify any area of controversy for this proposed change.
 * Critique of source: This source is a section of a book so it has likely undergone vigorous peer-review prior to publishing. This book was published in 2020 so the information is up to date. However, there are only two authors for this chapter on penile cancer. Usually, a larger group of authors collaborating on a publication could reduce the potential for bias and it would have been beneficial to see more field experts from different affiliations contribute to this work. Both authors come from the same centre (University of Nebraska Medical Centre). However, since this is a secondary source it includes summaries of the data from many different studies conducted over the years, which increases the validity and reliability of this source. Ultimately, there is not a lot of information about how this book was written and how the research was collected, but due to its recent publication and extensive citation of other primary and secondary sources, I believe this source can generally be trusted and will not impact my decision to share the information I have chosen on the Wikipedia article.
 * Article improvement: Treatment of penile cancer will vary depending on the clinical stage of the tumor at the time of diagnosis. The gold standard for treatment of primary penile tumors is surgical removal.

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