User talk:Amiller25

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! GermanJoe (talk) 18:11, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Referencing
Hello Amiller25, an additional quick tip if you don't mind: referencing in Wikipedia articles is usually done with the complete source information enclosed in tags directly behind the verified statement. An additional in-text attribution of the author is usually only needed for direct quotations and controversial statements - for regular statements the information within the ref tags suffices as attribution. You'll find more information about Wikipedia's referencing system at WP:REFB, but please feel free to ask me or post at the Teahouse, if you have further questions. You can also use templates like Template:cite journal and Template:cite book to format the reference information in a standardized manner (the linked documentation pages contain more info). Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 18:24, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Desideratum for Controlled Medical Vocabularies


A tag has been placed on Desideratum for Controlled Medical Vocabularies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415631/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
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– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 04:10, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Problems with your recent edits
, you recently added a section called "General References" to Ontology and to several other articles. (Interestingly, your editing pattern, and the citations you are adding, are very similar to those of another editor,, as I noted earlier at User talk:Saramartin.) There are a number of problems with these edits: It would be more helpful if, when appropriate, you would add relevant information from these publications to the body text of the Wikipedia article and add the reference as an inline citation. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 12:43, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) Per MOS:CAPS, section titles use sentence case not title case, so "General references" would be the correct capitalization. But:
 * 2) "General references" is not a standard heading; as you can see at, "Further reading" is the section title more commonly used.
 * 3) The references that you added to Ontology, and to some other articles, are too specific; they are not appropriate as general reading suggestions on the subject.
 * 4) Adding the same publication to multiple articles looks like, and in some cases is, citation spamming.
 * 5) Creating a new "Further reading" section with one publication gives undue weight to that publication.


 * Amiller25 what you are doing appears to be WP:REFSPAM but I cannot identify a pattern. Would you please explain how are you selecting references to stick at the bottom of pages, and why you are doing this? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 13:31, 27 April 2018 (UTC)