User talk:Greenwich1

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 03:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Verifiability, sourcing, and MEDRS
Hi again, Greenwich1. I didn't realize when we crossed paths at Thalidomide that your were a new user, or I might have written a longer edit summary explaining better why I undid your edits at the article. First, I want to make clear that you are welcome here, and I hope you continue editing here. That said, there are various principles and guidelines at Wikipedia that are not obvious at first, so please don't be upset if some of your first few forays don't "stick", and get undone (or, "reverted" as we say here). That is very likely to happen, and is par for the course, as you learn the ropes around here.

In order to get on board as smoothly and rapidly as possible, I urge you to read our policy on WP:Verifiability, and Reliable sources. Another very important one is Neutral point of view, but given what you've done so far, I think that is probably already part of your repertoire, and won't be news to you; have a quick look anyway, there are some subtleties to learn about (things like WP:DUEWEIGHT, and some other stuff). Also (and I suspect you know about this already) please read about WP:PRIMARY sources, and WP:SECONDARY sources. Wikipedia relies on the latter, although the former may be used sparingly, and under specific circumstances.

Finally, you've chosen to edit in a topic that has biomedical considerations. This means that this article has even stricter requirements than most other articles do, so in addition to the links already mentioned, you should also read about WP:Identifying medical sources (usually abbreviated to WP:MEDRS when referring to it). That is the most important one to understand, when editing the Thalidomide article. There is also a community of editors who edit articles on medical topics; they have created a "WikiProject" to exchange useful information and coordinate improvement of such articles. You might want to check out their WikiProject home page, at WikiProject Medicine‎.

I hope this has been helpful. Feel free to reply below (in that case, start your reply with ) or to contact me on my talk page. If you have a question about medical sourcing in particular, you can ask me, or at the Talk page of the WikiProject. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 04:06, 13 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Mathglot, I don't care too much to get into Wikipedia's policies, they sound bizarre. I can't see how having an incorrect, un-cited statement is better than having a cited, correct statement... but if that's the policy, I'll leave that to you.  Just be aware that the current un-cited entry is incorrect.  The person who wrote that entry obviously confused fetal age with gestational age.   Greenwich1 (talk) 12:09, 13 May 2022 (UTC)