User talk:Dr Curat

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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:55, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Cochrane updates
Hi Julia, I'm Rexx, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for all the work you're doing in updating articles from the latest Cochrane reviews, but I wanted to give you a word of advice. Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, there has been a worry expressed about whether the text needed to be changed because of any different evidence in the Cochrane review. I can see from your contributions that you've often amended the text to do just that, but on the occasions when you only update the citation, you may leave doubt in the eyes of other editors whether there was any amendment necessary. One tip to ease the concern would be to include in your edit summary something like " - same conclusions, so no text changed", as that would help anyone watching the page see exactly what you did, rather than having to guess or cross-check.

I really hope you'll stay with us on this marvellous project, and please do feel free to drop in at The Doctor's Mess and introduce yourself to everyone there. If you're ever in need of an answer to something you're not sure of, do leave me a note on my talk page and I'll do my best to sort it for you. Best regards --RexxS (talk) 19:27, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * A friendly note that we tend to put references after punctuation rather than before. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:07, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanx! Fun to be here! Dr Curat (talk) 19:16, 10 July 2017 (UTC)