User talk:RonaldFrits

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Rheumatoid arthritis
Thanks for your great work on the RA page. I wish all new contributors were so conscientious about adding references for all their work!

Could I attract your attention to WP:MEDMOS, which sets some formatting and structure standards for medical articles? The RA article still needs to conform to this standard, and so far I have not found the time to do this myself.

Also, please have a look at footnotes. Rather than citing references inline, Wikipedia has a somewhat cumbersome but generally useful footnoting facility. In this edit I have converted your added citations into footnotes. The quickest way of doing this yourself is with the PMID code (every PubMed abstract has a PMID code). When you feed an article's PMID code into http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/ it will automagically generate a full citation for you. I'm happy to sort this out for you later if this is a bit daunting. JFW | T@lk  22:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! I will try to figure out how to do the references properly. RonaldFrits (talk) 22:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry if you can't. It took me quite a while to figure it all out. If anything, just embracing your reference with tags is the easiest way to make it appear in the references section: The complicated stuff (cite journal and PMID/DOI codes) can wait till later.

We have a very active collaboration of medical writers at WP:MED. Feel free to join! JFW | T@lk  08:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC)