User talk:Aliciarj123

Hello, Aliciarj123 and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project concerning content related to health or medicine. We encourage you to have a look at some advice on assignments, and especially our advice on editing medicine and health topics. If your edits do not meet Wikipedia's sourcing guidelines for medical articles, they may be removed.

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Sandy Georgia (Talk) 20:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. I have compiled a list of some common mistakes students and new editors make:


 * 1) The highest quality sources are needed for medical content. This include review articles (note this is not the same as peer reviewed) position statements from national and internationally recognized bodies (think CDC, WHO, NICE, FDA, etc), and major medical textbooks. Lower quality sources may be removed per WP:MEDRS.
 * 2) References go after not before punctuation (see WP:MOS)
 * 3) We use very few capital letters. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
 * 4) Do not use the url from the inside net of your university library. The rest of the world cannot see it.
 * 5) If you use textbooks we need page numbers.
 * 6) Please format your references as explained at WP:MEDHOW or like the ones already in the article. This is simple once you get the PMID.
 * 7) Every sentence can be referenced. We reference more densely than other sources.
 * 8) Never "copy and paste" from sources. We run copy and paste detection software on new edits.
 * 9) Section order typically follows the instructions here at WP:MEDMOS
 * 10) Please talk to us. Wikipedia works by collaboration and this takes place on the talk pages of both articles and user.

Again welcome and thank you for joining us.

P.S. Please share this with your fellow learners and instructors.

James Heilman a.k.a User:Doc James MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia

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The Team at WikiProject Medicine Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 11:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

A few helpful things
Hi Aliciarj123! I left a response to SandyGeorgia's reply to your post on Talk:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but I wanted to share a few links I found helpful when I was new to Wikipedia:
 * How to use the same footnote in multiple places
 * Documentation for the cite journal, cite book, cite web templates.
 * When none of those really seems to fit, there's the generic Citation template.
 * CrossRef's Digital object identifier (DOI) lookup tool — requires registration (free), but it's invaluable. Give it a list of citations (each separated by a blank line) and it can find DOIs for the articles that have one; check the box below the textarea and it will also look for PubMed IDs (PMID) and PubMed Central IDs (PMC).

By the way, Wikipedia users can sometimes be rather blunt in their comments on article talk pages. Usually the intent is to save time (for both author and readers) instead of to be rude or unkind. I've found users involved in WikiProject Medicine are generally nice folks and very helpful. It's a busy (and sometimes lively) online community, so you might enjoy skimming over the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine to get a sense of what's going on. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame credit › 19:01, 5 May 2015 (UTC)


 * As followup to ShelleyAdams' very nice post, we also have to be careful not to alter the established citation style on articles (although no one would accuse of new editor of doing that as they are learning to cite sources). Anyway, if you could get hold of this source that meets our medical sourcing guidelines
 * and use that citation, your work would advance more quickly! Bst, Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 19:11, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * and use that citation, your work would advance more quickly! Bst, Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 19:11, 5 May 2015 (UTC)