User talk:AussiePete56

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!


Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).

We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. I noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:


 * Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
 * Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
 * The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.

Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any questions. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages!

Notice
Alexbrn (talk) 15:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

A lengthy welcome
Hi AussiePete56. Welcome to Wikipedia. You asked for suggestions on how to collaborate with others:

If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors, such as the restrictions on COVID-19. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 17:34, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
I also raised an issue about likely non NPOV of alex, in the IVM/misinformation section. what do you think of it?Artemon ge (talk) 03:08, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

COVID-19 drug repurposing research
Hi AussiePete56, a belated welcome to Wikipedia. I'm just dropping by to follow-up on your message at the bottom of Talk:Ivermectin regarding adding some ivermectin-related material to COVID-19 drug repurposing research. I'd be happy to do so. I can't promise a particularly quick timeline, but I'll get to it as soon as I do the same at Ivermectin. I will admit that while I've been around for a bit, I mostly edit in a fairly niche topic (infectious diseases of the global poor, a topic where ivermectin is unambiguously a miracle drug!). I don't much enjoy the headbutting that inevitably comes with more contentious topics, so forgive me for not engaging as closely with the back-and-forth at the ivermectin talk page. Similarly, I've mostly avoided the covid-related pages over the course of the pandemic. Certainly they're important pages, and I'm glad somebody works on them. But I think maintaining your sanity here over the medium-to-long term means finding the places where contributing brings you joy, and avoiding the places where it brings you frustration. Anyway, just figured I'd post here where verbosity might be more allowed. I hope you're staying well. Ajpolino (talk) 03:23, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021
Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at Talk:Ivermectin. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! ''Just knock it off and let's talk about the merits of the content. "certain editors here have an ideological commitment to never mentioning any positive association between ivermectin and Covid 19 treatment" adds nothing useful to the discussion.'' Jdphenix (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021
Hi AussiePete56! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Alexbrn (talk) 08:26, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

ANI notice
See WP:ANI. Alexbrn (talk) 12:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

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I would also note about that Wikipedia does not have a policy of "supporting the senior editors because they do most of the work". There are no formal "senior editors" to support, we all work together regardless of if one makes frequent contributions or their first or infrequent contribution. 331dot (talk) 11:03, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

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