User talk:MelissaK212

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Adding citations
Most medical articles need updated citations so thank you for jumping right in. Just make sure that these citations meet the (what I consider to be strict) WP:MEDRS guidelines. Your edits will probably be reverted unless the citations are from review, meta-analysis journal articles or medical textbooks. It is great to have you add content and your edits are appreciated. Let me know if you have any other questions. Best Regards,
 *  Bfpage &#124;leave a message 14:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled a list of guidance for new editors:


 * 1) Use high quality sources for medical content. This is described at WP:MEDRS. High quality sources include review articles (note this is not the same as peer reviewed), position statements from national and internationally recognized bodies (think CDC, WHO, NICE, FDA, etc), and major medical textbooks. Lower quality sources may be removed.
 * 2) References go after not before punctuation (see WP:MOS)
 * 3) We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
 * 4) Do not use the url from the inside net of your university library. The rest of the world cannot see it.
 * 5) If you use textbooks we need page numbers.
 * 6) Please format your references as explained at WP:MEDHOW or like the ones already in the article. This is simple once you get the PMID / ISBN.
 * 7) Every sentence can be referenced. We reference more densely than other sources.
 * 8) Never "copy and paste" from sources. We run copy and paste detection software on new edits.
 * 9) Section order typically follows the instructions here at WP:MEDMOS
 * 10) Please talk to us. Wikipedia works by collaboration and this takes place on the talk pages of both articles and user.

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P.S. Please share this with fellow new editors.

James Heilman a.k.a User:Doc James MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine University of British Columbia

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The Team at WikiProject Medicine Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 11:36, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Welcome
I wanted to explain why I reverted some of your additions. For medical articles, we try to cite research articles, rather than just linking to other websites. The links that Doc James provided above are a good resource to explain our citation guidelines. Good luck, let me know if you have any questions by commenting on my talk page. Attaboy (talk) 04:53, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 12:19, 18 September 2015 (UTC)