User talk:Niamh.ogrady

Welcome!
Hello, Niamh.ogrady, 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.

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Studies as sources
Hi! I saw that you used some studies in the HPV article. This poses a bit of an issue since they weren't accompanied by secondary sources that backs up the claims.

The issue with studies is that they're primary sources for the data compiled by its creators, who are also typically the ones who conducted the research. The publisher can't serve as a verification of the study, as they only review to ensure that there are no obvious errors that would invalidate the study and determine if the study is something that should be published. They don't provide any commentary, which a secondary source would. Studies are also fairly limited out of necessity, as there's almost always not possible to survey every person that could fall into the study area. As such, the findings are seen as only really true for those persons who participated. The results could differ if they were to survey people from a different area, with a different ailment than cancer, or from different backgrounds or income levels. The secondary source will help provide that context. You could also have someone ask why one study was chosen over another that may give different results or one that isn't in English. That said, it is generally OK to use the literature reviews in a study as long as you're careful to avoid the parts where the author uses them to discuss their study.

Essentially what you need to do here is to add secondary sources to the article. This is all especially important when it comes to discussing health related data and claims. The policy page on the guidelines for sourcing medical articles goes over this in a bit more depth.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:16, 5 August 2019 (UTC)