User talk:Lstaplesbradley

Welcome!
Hello, Lstaplesbradley, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian 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. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Note
I understand you are a student taking a course that has Wikipedia editing as a component. this was inappropriate. Do not dump your sandbox into a Wikipedia article. This obliterates the work of other contributors and screws up the history.

There were also many problems with your edit. Too many for me to go into; I am not your TA. But please review WP:MEDRS, WP:MEDMOS, and WP:MEDHOW carefully and make sure that your draft follows all that guidance. Please have your class liaison review the draft in your sandbox and help you improve it. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 21:12, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. I am re-editing in smaller pieces and have made changes to my edits. Lstaplesbradley (talk) 16:54, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

formatting refs
The most important parameter in a citation for content related to health is the pubmed id (PMID). Please include it in references.

There is a very easy and fast way to do citations, which often also provides a link that allows readers to more easily find the source being cited.

You will notice that when you are in an edit window, that up at the top there is a toolbar. On the right, it says "Cite" and there is a little triangle next to it. If you click the triangle, another menu appears below. On the left side of the new menu bar, you will see "Templates". If you select (for example) "Cite journal", you can fill in the "doi" or the "PMID" field, and then if you click the little magnifying glass next to the field, the whole thing will auto-fill. Then you click the "insert" button at the bottom, and it will insert a ref like this (I changed the ref tags so it shows):
 * (ref) (/ref)

That takes about 10 seconds. As you can see there are templates for books, news, and websites, as well as journal articles, and each template has at least one field that you can use to autofill the rest. The autofill isn't perfect and I usually have to manually fix some things before I click "insert" but it generally works great and saves a bunch of time.

The PMID parameter is the one we care about the most.

One thing the autofill doesn't do, is add the PMC field if it is there (PMC is a link to a free fulltext version of the article). you can add that after you insert the citation, or -- while you have the "cite journal" template open --  you can click the "show/hide extra fields" button at the bottom,  and you will see the PMC field on the right, near the bottom. If you add the PMC number there that will be included, like this (again I have changed the ref tags):
 * (ref) (/ref)

The autofill also doesn't add the URL if there is a free fulltext that is not in PMC. You can add that manually too, after you autofill with PMID

Oh also - punctuation comes before references, not after. Jytdog (talk) 17:29, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * btw the autofill works with doi too.  using the autofill is good as it fills in key fields like the date of the ref. Jytdog (talk) 18:29, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Edit war warning
In Wikipedia we discuss things when there are disagreements. You can be blocked for trying to force your desired content into WP, like anyone else. Please just take it slow, and let's get the content right on Talk before implementing.

Your recent editing history at Social anxiety shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.