User talk:Curtishand

Major changes
Hi,

If you're making major changes on a page, you may want to place the underconstruction template at the top until you are finished - other editors should stay away until it is removed or a long period of non-editing occurs. Thanks, WLU (talk) 20:26, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Another note - please please please cite reliable sources in your editing. They are of assistance to readers, make the page more reliable, and allow people to conduct further research (if they wish) on the area.  Also, per WP:PROVEIT, unsourced information may be removed without controversy or recourse by any editor and the burden is on the replacing editor to provide the sources.  Footnotes are of great use when adding sources as are citation templates, as well as the following tools:


 * Google scholar autocitation, a google-style search engine and reference generator. Useful when the article doesn't have a pubmed number (old, social sciences or humanities) but the citation template isn't as neat and it does not fill in ISBN or pubmed numbers
 * ISBN searchable database, used in conjunction with Diberry to find, and generate citation templates
 * pubmed/isbn Diberry's template generator, incredibly useful, uses the pubmed number or isbn to automatically generate a citation template for you; the most useful if you have a pubmed or ISBN
 * If, as your edit summary suggests, you are an expert in this area, the most useful assistance that any expert can provide is to expand the citations with reliable sources. The best sources are peer-reviewed journals (particularly appropriate and appreciated are current review articles), textbooks and books published by mainstream scientific press.  On occasion, information and position statements from major governing bodies are also appropriate.  WP:MEDRS has more information for medical pages, and the medicine wikiproject is a great are for experts to go to for help, suggestions and to find other experts.  Thanks, WLU (talk) 20:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
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Thanks for your help with Distal radius fracture. We do need sources for as much as we can possibly get. If you need help with formatting your references, just let me know. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:00, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

New post
Thanks,

I am an editor adding a hand surgeon's changes as requested and I'm trying my best. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia and I'm trying to read all the rules and figure out how to navigate. I wanted to get his revision in there and then add his figures, legends, and the references once I had them in the correct style, but I now I can't figure out how to add the rest of his edits because they are no longer on the page (although I see them in history).

Curtishand (talk) 20:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I've moved your post to the bottom of the page - for easing readability pages are conventionally posted in chronological order with the oldest post at the top and new posts at the bottom.
 * What were you specifically having problems with? If it's 'urgent' or you've a specific question, I suggest using the helpme template (paste it as you see it on the page, double-curly brackets with "helpme" in the middle) - it'll get regular editors to show up to answr your questions.  You could also post a message on my, or WhatamIdoing's the talk pages (click on the link marked "user talk" in our signatures), or if it's a medical-specific question, post on the medicine wikiproject's talk page.  People are usually friendly and quite willing to help.
 * Jfdwolff would have been the person who substantially edited the page after you. He's a doctor and an admin, so specific questions would probably have to be answered by him (I could probably do so but with some research first).  Based on his edit summary, I would guess that he removed or re-ordered your material to be in linke with the medicine manual of style.  Some may have been removed; per WP:PROVEIT, any information that is unsourced may be removed and the onus is on the person seeking to add the information to provide sources that justify the statements.  WLU (talk) 20:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The notice on the editing page says "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it" -- and it appears that your contributions were indeed mercilessly edited. It's the nature of collaborative editing.  May I suggest taking just one part or section of that article at a time?  It looks like you have fairly ambitious plans.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Welcome back!
Just wanted to say that I saw your recent edits and the images, and was glad to see you were back again. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:28, 24 September 2008 (UTC)