User talk:Hgurling

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Hi -- you're making large changes to schizophrenia, but it's hard to tell what you're doing because you're not using edit messages. Could you please put a small note on the article's talk page to say what you are doing and why? (They are good changes as far as I can see, but it's nice to keep people informed.) Regards, Looie496 (talk) 01:23, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Point of view
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! It seems to me that you are pushing a specific point of view into articles like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Wikipedia policy is to write according to a neutral point of view. One example of your edits: "The flawed concept of schizophrenia being the result result of civilization..." (my italics) This is not neutral language. Writing off views that opposes your own, such as the diathesis/stress- or biopsychosocial model (which is fairly mainstream), as "unfairly and cruelly blamed mothers for triggering schizophrenia" (my italics) is another example of biased language. Also, you have been inserting "However..." sentences right in the middle of other sentences, making the whole impossible to read. One example:
 * Schizophrenia as a diagnostic entity has been criticised as lacking in scientific validity or reliability,[19]. However the diagnosis has been found to be as reliable and valid as most medical diagnoses [20][21] part of a larger criticism of the validity of psychiatric diagnoses in general.

/skagedal... 08:48, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: I have reverted your changes on Schizophrenia, please see the revision history and the talk page. It would be much appreciated if you would argue for your changes on the talk page, as Looie496 suggests above. /skagedal... 09:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Editing tips
Hi, Hgurling; your edits to Schizophrenia were reverted by another editor, so you might be well advised to introduce changes more slowly, while discussing them at Talk:Schizophrenia. I noticed some minor stylistic issues with some of your edits, so I hope these pages will be helpful:


 * WP:MEDRS, WP:OR, WP:NPOV and Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-30/Dispatches discuss some of the differences between Wikipedia and journal articles. Rather than basing edits on primary sources (original studies), Wikipedia must be primarly based on secondary sources or reviews or primary source material, or we violate WP:NOR.  The Dispatch article may be helpful in locating secondary reviews vs. primary source studies.
 * WP:FN, no spaces between footnotes or between punctuation and footnotes. Since Schizophrenia is a featured article, per crit. 2c of WP:WIAFA, a consistent citation style should be maintained.
 * Diberri's PMID template filler, plug in a PMID and it returns a citation, consistent with the format used in the rest of the article and in most bio/med articles on Wiki.
 * It can be helpful to work in small pieces, always using an edit summary to explain what change is being introduced.

Regards, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 02:34, 1 November 2008 (UTC)