User talk:Spacechickengrrl

Welcome!

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Another welcome
Hi! That's one creative user name you chose; it really made me smile. I thought I'd just extend a bit more personal welcome to you since I notice your first addition to an article here was deleted. You're in good company; that happens to almost everyone! Wikipedia is "the encyclopedia anyone can edit", but there are also some pretty specific rules about what can be added, and that's especially the case where articles that relate to health or medicine are concerned. One of those rules is that you can't just add things you know to be true. I know that will probably sound kind of strange, but any statement that's at all controversial or likely to be challenged needs to cite a verfiable, reliable source. And for better or worse, pretty much any statement that's added to an article like Medical cannabis is likely to be challenged by someone; it's one of the most controversial articles here.

By the way, I noticed that an anonymous/IP user posted a personal narrative to the same article's talk/discussion page a few days ago. If you saw that narrative, and you happen to be interested, you might also like to have a look at a reply I posted by clicking here to access the talk/discussion page for that IP address. Also, if you'd like to add information to the Medical Cannabis article about its efficacy for the treatment of any particular symptom or illness, it'll necessarily be something of a painstaking process to do so at this point. It would entail a search for medical research articles, ideally so-called "review articles", that support the information you want to add. Pubmed would be one place to look. It does take some time to learn to use Pubmed effectively, but it's a really rich resource once you get the hang of it. Google books and Google scholar can be very helpful as well, when one is looking for reliable sources to support additions to articles. Feel free to let me know if you'd like to follow that up and would like a bit of help to do so.

I'll place this page on my "watchlist", btw, so if you reply here or have any questions I'll be sure to see them. I can't promise an immediate reply, though, so if you're in a hurry, the help desk volunteers will probably be a better bet. They're usually able to answer specific questions about how to use Wikipedia very promptly, usually within 10 - 30 minutes. You'd also be welcome to e-mail me by clicking here if you prefer, although I think (?) you might have to set up your own e-mail within Wikipedia first if you want to do that. ( Best to create a generic, not-personally-identifying, free e-mail account via Gmail, or Yahoo, or somesuch, for that purpose, in my opinion. ) If you do e-mail or post a reply, please make sure you don't include any personally-identifying information at all. Best regards, –  OhioStandard  (talk) 12:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)