User talk:Ajohnston4

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Again, welcome! WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I invite you to join me
Hi and welcome!

I wanted to let you know that I am editing your recently created article, Cystogastrostomy. If you like, you should feel free to contribute to this process.

The reasons I'm spending some time on it are as follows:
 * a reasonable proportion of the article consists of direct quotes from the sources. On Wikipedia this can represent a copyright violation, which they tend to take quite seriously. For this reason, we always try to write the article in our own words (while of course referring to the sources). The key guideline to read here is WP:COPYVIO.
 * some of the sources are quite dated (1950's, 1960's) and of variable quality. Because medical information is discussed in the article, we try to use recent secondary sources wherever possible. For more detail (in addition to the links provided above) you can consult WP:CITEMED and WP:MEDRS.

WhatamIdoing has been extremely helpful to me in editing Wikipedia, and should be considered a far more reliable source than I if you are at any stage unsure! Best wishes, Basie (talk) 20:04, 22 October 2014 (UTC)