Surajkapoor94

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Hello, Surajkapoor94, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:24, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

November 2019

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Bronchiectasis. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia! We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Please keep the mission of Wikipedia in mind. We provide the public with accepted knowledge, working in a community.
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Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us! Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:20, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

A note about paraphrasing

Hi Surajkapoor94, I just wanted to leave you a note about the importance of putting information in your own words and avoiding close paraphrasing. For instance, in the article Bronchiectasis you added:

• Respiratory failure is a condition in which not enough oxygen passes from your lungs into your blood. Atelectasis is a condition in which one or more areas of the lungs collapse or do not inflate properly.

Which is quite similar to this source:

• Bronchiectasis can lead to serious health problems, such as respiratory failure (a condition in which not enough oxygen passes from your lungs into your blood), atelectasis (a condition in which one or more areas of your lungs collapse or don’t inflate properly)...

This is a fairly minor instance of close paraphrasing, but I hope that you will be more conscious of this moving forward. Content with close paraphrasing is often removed from Wikipedia for violating copyright of the original source, and it would be unfortunate if your work was removed. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:34, 22 November 2019 (UTC)