User talk:Xostugo



Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of content about health here on Wikipedia, pursuing the mission of Wikipedia to provide the public with articles that present accepted knowledge, created and maintained by a community of editors.

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!

First, some basics about editing Wikipedia, which is a strange place behind the scenes; you may find some of the ways we operate to be surprising. Please take your time and understand how this place works. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
 * Everything starts with the mission - the mission of Wikipedia is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, working in a community of editors. (see WP:NOT)
 * We find "accepted knowledge" for biomedical information in sources defined by WP:MEDRS -- we generally use literature reviews published in good journals or statements by major medical or scientific bodies and we generally avoid using research papers, editorials, and popular media as sources for such content. We read MEDRS sources and summarize them, giving the most space and emphasis (what we call WP:WEIGHT) to the most prevalent views found in MEDRS sources.
 * Please see WPMED's "how to" guide for editing content about health
 * More generally please see The five pillars of Wikipedia and please be aware of the "policies and guidelines" that govern what we do here; these have been generated by the community itself over the last fifteen years, and you will need to learn them (which is not too hard, it just takes some time). Documents about Wikipedia - the "back office" -  reside in "Wikipedia space" where document titles are preceded by "Wikipedia:" (often abbreviated "WP:"). WP space is separate from "article space" (also called "mainspace") - the document at WP:CONSENSUS is different from, and serves as a different purpose than, the document at  Consensus.

Every article and page in Wikipedia has an associated talk page, and these pages are essential because we editors use them to collaborate and work out disagreements. (This is your Talk page, associated with your user page.) When you use a Talk page, you should sign your name by typing four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of your comment; the Wikipedia software will automatically convert that into links to your Userpage and this page and will add a datestamp. This is how we know who said what. We also "thread" comments in a way that you will learn with time. Please see the Talk Page Guidelines to learn how to use talk pages.


 * 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. You can also just add our talk page to your watchlist and join in discussions that interest you.  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!
 * 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, edit, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss it on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.

Feel free to drop a note below if you have any questions or problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia!

-- Jytdog (talk) 16:49, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Sources and WP:BLP
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 06:29, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

August 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Milton Packer, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. ''Please read MOS:SECTIONCAPS (or simply look at a variety of existing Wikipedia articles, which should really be everyone's first step before creating an article), which explains that all section headings should be in sentence case. As an example (not from the Packer article) "Early Life And Career" would be wrong; "Early life and career" would be correct. Thanks.  Julietdeltalima   (talk) '' 21:42, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Milton Packer
This article contained a number of issues:

1) It was promotional in tone

2) Parts of it were copied and pasted from

3) It contained a great deal of primary research

4) You have not disclosed your connection with the subject in question per WP:PAID

Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 00:00, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Thanks for your disclosure here of your connection with Milton Packer.

I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia along with my regular editing which is mostly about health and medicine.

It seems that you came to WP to get an article created about yourself, which I went ahead and fleshed out.

Wikipedia highly values contributions by subject matter experts; at the same time, experts have some special challenges when they first start editing here. Please see the essay with advice for experts, WP:EXPERTS, which discusses both sides of that coin, as well as the welcome message from WP:MED which I have moved to the top of this page. It has lots of helpful links. I do hope you decide to spend more time and improve our content about heart failure and its pathology and therapeutic options. That is hard subject matter, and you would do the world a ton of good if you chose to spend some time here. It takes some time to learn the ways of WP and how we edit about health, but the concepts are not hard. (They also make a lot of sense, once you understand the foundations of Wikipedia -- if you want to dig into that, I've generated an as-brief-as-possible single page, pulling everything together -- the mission and the strategies through which the editing community realizes the mission).

One of the hardest things for accomplished scientists to wrap their heads around is that is not OK to write literature reviews in Wikipedia. We summarize existing reviews - recent ones from high quality journals. Just want to flag that one for you. :)

Another challenge is the way conflicts of interest (COI) are managed here. I reckon you are very familiar with that concept from your academic work, but it has some interesting twists here in Wikipedia, since we allow editors to choose whatever user names they like, we allow editors to never reveal their identities, articles are not signed -- the reader has no way of knowing who wrote it -- and editors can directly publish their edits, with no mediation (no publisher, no peer review - just direct publication).

The upshot of all that, is that we ask editors to disclose any connection they have with subject matter that could create conflict of interest, and we ask them to 'not edit directly, but rather offer suggestions on the article's associated Talk page. For example, see Talk:Milton Packer. That is where editors working on a topic, discuss it.

Wikipedia is a scholarly project, and like all scholarly endeavors, managing COI is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it.

Will you please offer suggestions at the article about you, instead of editing it directly? I am happy to talk, if you have any questions or want to discuss anything, you can write them below. I will see them, as I am "watching" this page.

Best regards, Jytdog (talk) 17:05, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 17:51, 6 August 2017 (UTC)