User talk:Mccormfx

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or ask your question and then place  before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! JFW | T@lk  10:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

Citing articles
I can only repeat my above welcome, and hope you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia. Today we have a pulmonology article on the Main Page (lung cancer), and your help in improving other articles would be very much appreciated. There are several WikiProjects dealing with articles on medical science, such as WP:CLINMED (clinical medicine) and WP:MCB (molecular and cellular biology). Feel free to join.

With regards to citing sources, I notice you cited yourself on pneumothorax. While I think this is a suitable reference (apart from PMID 17075565 I could not find other recent reviews on LAM), please be aware that we have a policy that advises caution in citing ones own works (WP:COI). If in doubt, a message on the relevant article's talk page will usually do the trick.

I slightly revised the way the reference on pneumothorax was formatted. Citation on Wikipedia can be a bit complicated, but generally articles now use footnotes. To get a full academic citation for a paper, I tend to use David Iberri's automatic tool, http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/. Simply inserting the PMID code will automatically generate a Wikipedia citation which can be copied and pasted into the article. In this case I used PMID code 16915145 (for the MedGenMed review). JFW | T@lk  19:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)