User talk:Highqualitycontent

A lengthy welcome
Hi Highqualitycontent. Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 16:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

References for medical information
Hi Highqualitycontent. Please review Identifying reliable sources (medicine). Note it's summary: "Ideal sources for biomedical material include literature reviews or systematic reviews in reliable, third-party, published secondary sources (such as reputable medical journals), recognised standard textbooks by experts in a field, or medical guidelines and position statements from national or international expert bodies. Cite reviews, don't write them." --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 16:21, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

I've read the guidelines, there are several changes I made that were completely removed and I don't understand why. For instance, the entry on platelet rich plasma, it is used in ophthalmology as well to treat severe dry eye disease. I added a reference to a randomized controlled trial reporting on positive outcomes. With two words adding that it is used in this field. Why was this removed?

I have similar questions for the 9-10 other entries I expanded\edited today... All references provided were from peer reviewed journals with high impact factors.

Highqualitycontent (talk) 16:36, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. None appeared to be ideal sources as outlined above and you're not saying any are, so I'm going to assume I didn't overlook anything. I suggest discussing when and how to use the references that you've provided at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, where editors with more expertise than I can help. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 16:48, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * All of these edits were also marked as "minor edits", where none of these were minor. Please only mark very small changes (that do not alter meaning) as minor. Wikipedia takes some getting used to, and there are a great deal of rules (for example, you are expected to avoid editing articles in which you have a personal interest), but I hope you continue to edit articles despite hitting some roadblocks here. Welcome to Wikipedia! ParticipantObserver (talk) 21:27, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Welcome - I just saw the recent exchange on WT:MED and thought I'd drop by and say "welcome to Wikipedia" with only a few gtt's of irony as a fellow academic physician. I gave a talk at a Wikimania event in 2015 about editing as an academic physician; perhaps some of it will resonate if you care to watch. I am no major WP contributor, but I do think it's valuable to have some academic physicians around; my personal decision has been to steer away from editing WP pages where my work would potentially be cited, even though those pages need work. I have no compuctions about commenting in Talk pages, but I try to be transparent about my COIs. Every editor must struggle with these issues, but I hope you'll stick around because your voice is needed! &mdash; soupvector (talk) 14:08, 27 August 2020 (UTC)