User talk:Cobalt17

May 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sleep paralysis has been reverted. Your edit here to Sleep paralysis was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00506/full) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
 * 1) Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
 * 2) 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.  (for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see WP:MEDDEF)
 * 3) Use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please be aware that predatory publishers exist - check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.
 * 4) Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
 * 5) We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
 * 6) Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
 * 7) Do not use URLs from your university library's internal net: the rest of the world cannot see them.
 * 8) Include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
 * 9) Format references consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW.
 * 10) Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
 * 11) The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS.
 * 12) Think carefully before working on featured articles (these have a gold star at top right). It is often hard to improve featured articles.
 * 13) Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us. Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC)