Farfan.emma

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Hello, Farfan.emma, and Welcome to Wikipedia!   

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Farfan.emma, good luck, and have fun. Stinglehammer (talk) 18:22, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

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Hi Emma

I see you left a message on the Talk page for Neglected tropical diseases. This is often a great way to work with other editors and check you are on the right lines BUT being bold & responsible with your editing is the watchword of Wikipedia editing. You should feel free that you can edit any page on Wikipedia... as long as you are being responsible with your edits, writing neutrally and backing up your facts with citations from reliable published secondary sources. So you should draft content in your sandbox and then when it is ready we can just copy & paste it into the article from Edit Source of your sandbox to the Edit Source of the Neglected tropical diseases page. And that's fine.

Just be aware that there is a style guide for medical articles (See WP:MEDSECTIONS) and please note any biomedical statements on Wikipedia have a stricter referencing policy than other statements made on Wikipedia because it is so very important to get good quality health information out there. What this means is more recent sources from the last 5-8 years are favoured over older sources and review articles are deemed much better sources than journal articles looking at one study only (the idea being not to make global generalisations based on one small scale study) so do, for future reference to keep yourself right, cite review articles when backing up biomedical-related statements. For further information on WikiProject Medicine's guidance to referencing there is a short paragraph on page three of this guide to editing articles about medicine OR you can click through this easy-to-follow mini tutorial to editing medical topics on Wikipedia. Drop me an email at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk if you need a hand. Thanks so much and happy editing! Best wishes, Stinglehammer (talk) 01:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)