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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).
 * measles

Assignment # 3
Proposed change:
 * 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.

The proposed addition is written in italics below. The sentences before and after the addition are included to provide context.

“It is extremely contagious–nine out of ten people who are not immune and share living space with an infected person will be infected. Furthermore, measles’s reproductive number estimates vary beyond the frequently citied range of 12 to 18. People are infectious to others from four days before to four days after the start of the rash."

Rationale for proposed change:

This change is proposed as the article does not currently state the reproductive number for measles. As this number can be used to compare how contagious various infectious diseases are to each other it will help provide some context for the readers. I was not sure if I should include more details about what a reproductive number represents but for now, I am planning on inserting a link to the Wikipedia page on reproductive numbers. My thought is that this will avoid the article repeating information that can be found elsewhere.

I do not foresee this addition being controversial.

Critique of Source

I did not identify any potential sources of bias that would impact my plans for incorporating information from this article. I was originally concerned that perhaps the review had only included articles discussing outbreaks in a specific geographic region however the articles appear to be from diverse regions. Additionally, as mentioned in the previous assignment, while one of the authors declared collaborations with vaccine companies, the ‘Declaration of interests’ section states that these collaborations were outside this current work. This section goes on to say that the other authors did not declare any competing interests and that the opinions, results and conclusions are independent from funding sources.

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