User talk:SarahinOttawa

Welcome!
Hello, SarahinOttawa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Lyme disease. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Scray (talk) 14:19, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * I reverted your edit due to the sourcing issues I cited in the WP:Edit summary there, and also because your insertion accidentally corrupted the ref tags. You're now a Wikipedia editor, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of helpful folks here. With a busy article like Lyme disease, you might want to discuss planned edits on the Talk page there - it's likely that you'll get a reply within hours (maybe faster!).  -- Scray (talk) 14:27, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. ''This note is regarding edits like this, which you marked minor. Significant article content changes should not be marked minor. Thanks!''  17:25, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

primary studies
Hi, I see you are trying to be constructive and add valuable content to Lyme disease. However, we really prefer secondary sources over primary sources. Please read WP:PSTS and WP:MEDRS to help you identify the kinds of sources we are looking for. Don't get discouraged, please keep contributing, Wikipedia has a learning curve! 17:51, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

primary study again -- your recent addition to Lyme disease
Hi Sarah, we were able to use part of your recent addition to Lyme disease, but I had to make significant adjustments to it. Again, please read WP:MEDRS. Your addition had a couple of problems: 1)  It included a popular-press citation to support a scientific claim, and this is very much discouraged by WP:MEDRS; 2) You again used a primary study, and it's been explained to you several times now that primary studies are really not preferred; 3) You did not really represent the results of the primary study you cited accurately.  Because the primary study was added in conjunction with content supported by reliable secondary sources, I think the article will be able to keep it, but please look at how I had to edit the content to comply with Wikipedia guidelines and policies.  Again, WP:MEDRS is the document you need to read and apply.  Thank you...   14:59, 18 October 2012 (UTC)