User talk:TheRheumDoc

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!


Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. 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. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:


 * 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. 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!
 * Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
 * The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.

Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Zefr (talk) 14:21, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Please review the video in the upper right for background on the quality of sources needed per WP:MEDRS; also see WP:WHYMEDRS and WP:MEDHOW. Feel free to ask questions of the medical community at WT:MED. --Zefr (talk) 14:23, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Journal Nutrients on Sourcewatch
Nutrients is published by MDPI, a predatory publisher with slack editorial practices, one reason why it is listed on WP:SOURCEWATCH. Further, high-quality clinical research does not typically appear in a journal like Nutrients, but rather in well-respected, high-impact factor medical journals with rigorous review standards, as shown here. When writing for the encyclopedia, we seek high-quality reviews published by reliable respected journals, government health departments, or medical association position papers; see WP:MEDSCI. --Zefr (talk) 14:33, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Fear
Hello! I came across your userpage while patrolling for vandals and noticed on your userpage you said "for some reason I have an irrational fear of wanting to contribute at all out of fear of arbitrary rejections". This is an understandable fear, however if your edits are seemingly reverted arbitrarily, I'm sure you can just ask the reverting user for an explanation and they'll be willing to do so. If you need any help figuring things help feel free to ask me! ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:52, 30 August 2022 (UTC)