User talk:B.Wathiong

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Hello, B.Wathiong, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! -- Jytdog (talk) 09:27, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi B.Wathiong

Really, welcome to WIkipedia! Thanks for being straightforward in your edit note here.

We love having experts join Wikipedia, especially when they work here to benefit the encyclopedia, and are careful to avoid the problems that experts face here. Please do have a look at our essay for experts for some great advice... and please also see the warnings in the last bullet point about citing your own work (there is a link to our conflict of guideline there too - please make sure read that, especialiy the section writing about yourself and your work.)

One thing I've noticed that scientists have a hard time with, is getting their head around the genre of WP. WP articles are not a place to report the results of individual papers (we consider them WP:PRIMARY sources), nor are wikipedia articles literature review articles. Instead, these are encyclopedia articles. We are called "editors" here, not authors. What we do, is read review articles, and summarize them here. (please have a look at WP:MEDRS - while this is our guide for sourcing health content, it really expresses the heart of what we do here and is really useful for all articles related to biology).

I won't revert your edit, but if you decide to stay (and I hope you do!) please try to cite review articles instead of articles reporting on research, and cite your own work with great care.

Happy to answer any questions you have, as you move forward. I am "watching" this page so you can reply here or ask me questions here. Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 09:35, 7 April 2015 (UTC)