User talk:Emily438

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Hello, Emily438, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Brianda and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Your edits on Sickle cell trait
Hi Emily438! First, I see you are here as a student, and I want to again welcome you to Wikipedia!

I noticed you recently made edits to the article "Sickle cell trait". It appears you added the statement, "Another common side effect or symptom is depression especially if the disease is left untreated." While you did add a source (which is a good start, many new editors do not cite their sources), the source for the statement appears to support an increased incidence in depression for sickle cell disease, but not sickle cell trait. Therefore, for the time being, I added a "failed verification" template to your source in the article.

I would also like to note that Wikipedia has very strict policies regarding sources for biomedical information (see Identifying reliable sources (medicine). These are sometimes called "MEDRS". One of the requirements is that most sources should be within five years of publication; however, the Jenerette source you added was published in 2005.

Here are some suggestions: 1. Remove the statement from the sickle cell trait article. (Alternatively, you can try to find a source that does support an increase in depressive symptoms for the trait, but I was not able to find any in a very quick literature search.). 2. Find a MEDRS complaint source to support an increase in depression in sickle cell disease. Hint: A 2021 review by Oudin Doglioni et al. appears to qualify. (Example reference formatting: " 3. Make your edit to the sickle cell disease article.

Let someone like Brianda (Wiki Ed) or myself know if you need help! Thanks! Wikipedialuva (talk) 23:44, 27 March 2024 (UTC)