User talk:Mpappolla

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Again, welcome! If you have any questions you can ask me or any of the editors at the medicine project. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 15:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments on Alzheimer's disease addition
First of all I want to thank you for your effort to improve the Alzheimer's disease article. This is specially so, since you seem to be an expert in the field with many articles on pubmed. However I have some concerns

Wikipedia is a tertiary source, an encyclopedia, and therefore its politics are a bit different that when publishing in a journal. The use of primary sources (as is an article such as yours) is specially discouraged. (See WP:MEDRS for a full explanation). On the other hand secondary sources such as meta-analysis and specially reviews are encouraged as references. In this sense your additions give too much weight (see WP:Weight) to a single source, and it should probably be balanced with other works. Finally the Alzheimer's disease article is a Featured article (See WP:FA) which means that it has gone an extensive development and review by many editors. It is therefore a good idea to comment any important changes in the talk page of the article.

I am going to temporarilly move your addition to the talk page, so other editors can give their opinion, (Wikipedia works by consensus) on how to finally include your valuable addition. I hope this does not discourage your initial efforts. You will be most welcomed there to give your opinion and continue improving this huge work that is wikipedia with your expert knowledge. Best regards. --Garrondo (talk) 15:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * By the time I wrote this it was deleted by another experienced editor editor giving similar reasons to the ones above. If you disagree or want to further comment you can do it in the talk page of the article. Bests regards. I hope to continue seeing you around.--Garrondo (talk) 15:34, 24 November 2009 (UTC)