User talk:OzJGypsy

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Hello, OzJGypsy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Diabetes mellitus type 1. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Advertising
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Diabetes mellitus type 1, you may be blocked from editing. Jytdog (talk) 23:15, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Please read WP:COI and WP:PAID, and if you some connection with the people running the ENDIA study please declare it and follow the COI guideline. If you don't understand what "conflict of interest" is, again please read WP:COI and then ask any further questions you have, here, just below this. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 23:21, 3 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry! Posted this on the wrong talk page I think... Hi Jytdog I'm a newbie to Wikipedia. Fair enough you removed my inclusion of the Australian ENDIA Study from Diabetes Mellitus Type 1. I'm not sure what the conflict of interest is in including a mention of this current observational study under 'Research' within this heading? Yes, I work with this study group. We're looking at ways of raising awareness for the study to those most interested in the field. It is an international first and of interest to the T1D community. My colleague established a separate ENDIA page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENDIA so why can't we link to this under T1DM? There is a message on the ENDIA page stating "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (March 2014)". We thought Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 was pretty relevant! Was it the way I worded it? Thanks for any Wiki-tips. Cheers OzJGypsyOzJGypsy (talk) 02:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC) ... did I do that correctly?
 * This was perfect yes. And thanks for replying.
 * So... using Wikipedia to "get the word out", as you note you were doing, is what I thought you were doing.
 * It is not OK to use Wikipedia this way. We actually have a policy against it -- see WP:PROMO (the same policy applies to drug reps who come to WP wanting to write Great Things about their drug, or a politician's PR people who want to Get The Word Out about their candidate, and, for that matter, people who believe that Vaccines Are Evil and want to Get The Word Out! about that.
 * Wikipedia articles should be built from independent secondary sources -- we rely on authoritative sources that are in the field, and independent of the subject, to drive content. One of the "tells" of people who come here to promote something, is that they use non-independent sourcing (the website of the politician or the company, or press releases, etc)
 * If you let high quality, independent sourcing guide you, it is hard to go wrong. If you come here driven by an external interest and use sources for that external thing, it  is almost impossible to go right... Jytdog (talk) 03:01, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I wrote this thing, here: User:Jytdog/How, that is meant to provide an overview and guidance into  this strange Wikipedia world.. have a look, if you like! Jytdog (talk) 03:02, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * OH, I forgot... there is a bit more I should say about how conflict of interest is managed here in WP that I can tell you in a bit, but I don't want to overwhelm you.  Do reply and  let me know if what I wrote above makes sense.  I also gave you a welcome from WikiProject Medicine below - we have plenty of professors and doctors who are part of the project, and would love to have you participate more broadly... Jytdog (talk) 03:12, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Wikiproject Medicine!


Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of content about health here on Wikipedia, pursuing the mission of Wikipedia to provide the public with articles that present accepted knowledge, created and maintained by a community of editors.

One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board!

First, some basics about editing Wikipedia, which is a strange place behind the scenes; you may find some of the ways we operate to be surprising. Please take your time and understand how this place works. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
 * Everything starts with the mission - the mission of Wikipedia is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, working in a community of editors. (see WP:NOT)
 * We find "accepted knowledge" for biomedical information in sources defined by WP:MEDRS -- we generally use literature reviews published in good journals or statements by major medical or scientific bodies and we generally avoid using research papers, editorials, and popular media as sources for such content. We read MEDRS sources and summarize them, giving the most space and emphasis (what we call WP:WEIGHT) to the most prevalent views found in MEDRS sources.
 * Please see WPMED's "how to" guide for editing content about health
 * More generally please see The five pillars of Wikipedia and please be aware of the "policies and guidelines" that govern what we do here; these have been generated by the community itself over the last fifteen years, and you will need to learn them (which is not too hard, it just takes some time). Documents about Wikipedia - the "back office" -  reside in "Wikipedia space" where document titles are preceded by "Wikipedia:" (often abbreviated "WP:"). WP space is separate from "article space" (also called "mainspace") - the document at WP:CONSENSUS is different from, and serves as a different purpose than, the document at  Consensus.

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 * Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. You can also just add our talk page to your watchlist and join in discussions that interest you.  Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
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--Jytdog (talk) 03:02, 10 November 2017 (UTC)