User talk:Benjamin Muir124

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Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community. We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do. Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources.

Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS; for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see the WP:MEDDEF section.) High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like the CDC, WHO, and FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please beware of predatory publishers – check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.

The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS. The section above the table of contents is called the WP:LEAD. It summarizes the body. Do not add anything to the lead that is not in the body. Style is covered in MEDMOS as well; we avoid the word "patient" for example. We don't use terms like "currently", "recently," "now", or "today". See WP:RELTIME. For more general information, please see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, it provides a way to format citations quickly and easily.

Citation details are important: Be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books. Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article, and please format citations consistently within an article. Do not use URLs from your university library that have "proxy" in them: the rest of the world cannot see them. Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space. We use very few capital letters (see WP:MOSCAPS) and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities. Avoid overlinking! Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits. Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 20:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)