Thomas.andr
| This user is a student editor in Northeastern_University/Online_Communities_(Fall_2018) . |
| This user is a student editor in Northeastern_University/Online_Communities_(Fall_2018) . |
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editHello, Thomas.andr, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:41, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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editHi! I have some notes:
Since you're covering a health topic, I want you to take the training module on editing health and science related topics. This summarizes the content at WP:MEDRS. Here are the main types of sourcing you'll run into (per MEDRS):
- A primary source in medicine is one in which the authors directly participated in the research or documented their personal experiences. They examined the patients, injected the rats, ran the experiments, or at least supervised those who did. Many, but not all, papers published in medical journals are primary sources for facts about the research and discoveries made.
- A secondary source in medicine summarizes one or more primary or secondary sources, usually to provide an overview of current understanding of the topic, to make recommendations, or to combine results of several studies. Examples include literature reviews or systematic reviews found in medical journals, specialist academic or professional books, and medical guidelines or position statements published by major health organizations.
- A tertiary source usually summarizes a range of secondary sources. Undergraduate or graduate level textbooks, edited scientific books, lay scientific books, and encyclopedias are examples of tertiary sources.
Ideally you will be using secondary and tertiary sources, as primary sources will need to be verified through secondary and tertiary sources. Avoid popular press sourcing, as those aren't really reliable for medical topics with the exception of when it's used to back up social, biographical, current-affairs, financial, and historical information. To be honest, I'd go for academic and scholarly sources for this topic, as most of the content on the Internet won't be seen as reliable. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:07, 26 October 2018 (UTC)