User talk:Tammy b530

Re: Health informatics
Tammy, I'm responding to your email here.

First, I understand your good intentions in editing the article, but there's some problems. Give me time to explain it all and in the meantime can I please ask that you keep your edits relatively discrete -- say 1-3 paragraphs at a time -- so other editors have time to fix the problems introduced as you're learning how Wikpedia works. Sorry in advance if my advice sounds harsh. It's not intended that way, I'm just in a rush.

1. Please read WP:OR. Original research is not allowed on Wikipedia, only citation of pre-existing published secondary and tertiary sources which are reliable and verifiabled. See WP:VERIFY and WP:RS (reliable sources). 2. My field is also health informatics and so just because it's your field doesn't mean you have more right than anyone else over this article. You are just as much subject to Wikipedia policy as any other editor. 3. Since you're a new editor, please glance over all the WP:FIVEPILLARS to get a broader idea of what Wikipedia is and how it works. 4. There were a lot of spelling and grammar errors in what you added. They can be fixed, but please pay attention. Your edits are more likely to be reverted if they're riddled with errors.

Happy editing and cheers Donama (talk) 23:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi again, Tammy. I'm responding to your email here again. Please undertstand I didn't undo your work. I edited it though, to improve it and I imagine this gives an appearance of your work having been "undone". Please don't be upset that I edited parts of what you added after you committed them. That's what collaboration is. If you go through the Health informatics page history, you'll see a message for each edit I've made. One of the reasons bits you added are missing is because they were duplicating existing text (eg. the bit about Homer Warner). Cheers again, and I do want you to keep editing the article. Just be aware any one else can edit it and mess around with your changes because it's owned by everyone. Donama (talk) 07:46, 10 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Donama, I will not pretend that I know how to use the post, or talk option that is why I am sending you emails...I am still discovering. Thank you for explaining. I truly was upset, but I did see what I wrote scattered here and there. I found additional information that I added in the History. It gives more of a world wide view. cheers to you and thank you again.


 * Tammy, thanks for understanding. I'm sorry you were upset. You'll be surprised at how quickly you get the hang of things like writing on a talk page and doing citations. Just a tip. Use four tildes in a row to sign your name on a talk page (eg. ~ ). Cheers Donama (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2010 (UTC)