User talk:Lauren.chen

Welcome!
Hello, Lauren.chen, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:57, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Abortion
Hi, I saw that you picked to edit the article on abortion. I wanted to give you a bit of a head's up on this topic - it's an article that is held under sanctions. What this means is that the article is in a topic area that can be fairly controversial and is often edited. As such, it is more closely monitored than other articles. Now what this means to you is that anything you add to the article will have to be very neutrally written and have the strongest possible sourcing. Pay very close attention to the reliable source guidelines for medical topics. If anything is removed you will need to discuss the edit on the talk page before re-adding the content. To be honest, I would bring up any potential edits on the article's talk page and make sure to get some response before adding anything to this particular article, as it's very frequently edited and watched.

Something also to take into account is that the article is currently being worked on by one of our Wiki Scholars,. This doesn't mean that you can't edit, but since DataNerdMPH has already started working on the article I would check in with them to see how the two of you can collaborate on the entry. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:19, 30 July 2019 (UTC)