Wikipedia:Vaccine safety/Tips

For creating new articles

 * Follow all the standard best practices for articles, as outlined at Help:Your first article. See the Help:Introduction tutorials for general editing advice.
 * Rigorous sourcing is extremely important for medical articles. Ideal sources include literature reviews or systematic reviews in reliable, third-party, published secondary sources (such as reputable medical journals), recognised standard textbooks by medical experts, or medical guidelines and position statements from national or international expert bodies.
 * When drafting, follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles.
 * Optionally, add the vaccine safety navbox Vaccine safety, to the page. If the topic is significant in the scope of the pandemic as a whole, edit the sidebar and navbox to add it to them.
 * Don't forget the normal finishing touches, such as categories, a short description, and the stub tag if needed.
 * Ensure that the article is not an orphan by linking to it from other vaccine-related pages where it is relevant, Also, add a few relevant redirects.

Resources

 * How to create a page, step-by-step guide for creating a Wikipedia page
 * Contributing to Wikipedia, general introduction to contributing
 * Help:Directory, Help directory of Wikipedia
 * Policies and guidelines, good practice accepted in Wikipedia community
 * Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, a book on Wikipedia editing

Elements to include

 * Navbox: If this is the primary focus of the article, add the vaccine safety navbox Vaccine safety, to the page. '
 * Categories: Add categories, a short descriptions, and a stub tag if needed.
 * Messages: Other editors have compiled messages commonly included in articles about vaccines, along with their best sources.

User scripts

 * The Unreliable/Predatory Sources Detector (WP:UPSD) is a user script for identifying suspect sources used in an article.
 * Cite Unseen is a user script that annotates citations with type and context, including predicted reliability.

Messages
There are ready-available messages to include in articles about vaccines, backed up by reliable sources.

Navbox
To embed the navbox in an article use Vaccine safety: