User talk:ALSmith

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
 * 1) Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
 * 2) We do that, by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do.  Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources.  (for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see WP:MEDDEF)
 * 3) Use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please be aware that predatory publishers exist - check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.
 * 4) Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
 * 5) We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
 * 6) Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
 * 7) Do not use URLs from your university library's internal net: the rest of the world cannot see them.
 * 8) Include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
 * 9) Format references consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW.
 * 10) Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
 * 11) The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS.
 * 12) Think carefully before working on featured articles (these have a gold star at top right). It is often hard to improve featured articles.
 * 13) Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us. Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:34, 13 May 2017 (UTC)