TrinityLeonis

Welcome!

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

Hey Trinity, I'm using your example to post(figuring this out was a lot harder than it should have been). Hopefully this gets easier. Balddwin (talk) 21:00, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

Handouts
Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
Additional Resources
You can find answers to many student questions on our Q&A site, ask.wikiedu.org

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:18, 16 January 2018 (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.
2. We do that by finding high quality secondary sources and summarizing what they say, giving WP:WEIGHT as they do. Please do not try to build content by synthesizing content based on primary sources. (For the difference between primary and secondary sources, see WP:MEDDEF.)
3. Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed. Please beware of predatory publishers – check the publishers of articles (especially open source articles) at Beall's list.
4. The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS. The section above the table of contents is called the WP:LEAD. It summarizes the body. Do not add anything to the lead that is not in the body. Style is covered in MEDMOS as well; we avoid the word "patient" for example.
5. More generally see WP:MEDHOW
6. Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
7. We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
8. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
9. Do not use URLs from your university library's internal net: the rest of the world cannot see them.
10. Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
11. Please format citations consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW for how to format citations.
12. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
13. Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us! Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 01:51, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

?

Please explain this edit. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 03:36, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Did I delete something? I see that it said you added bullet points but I don't see them now. My computer glitched out when I was trying to make my second post about possible ideas for the article, I may have messed something up when I panicked. Sorry! It was not my intention to remove a change you made. I'm still working out newbie kinks.TrinityLeonis (talk) 03:44, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

OK, glitches happen :) Jytdog (talk) 03:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Citing pages

Per the guidance above, when you cite a book, would you please cite the page? I have added a bunch of tags asking for page numbers. Also if you look at the markup you will see how to use a source more than once - we use "ref name". Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 03:07, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry about leaving out the page numbers. I added them in, does it look okay now? If so, how do I remove the tags? Thank you for fixing the multiple sources, I couldn't quiet figure out how to mark it all as coming from the same source. Please let me know if you have any more critiques!TrinityLeonis (talk) 04:43, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for being open to feedback! Something to remember is to read other people's edit notes. Please see this one that i wrote a little while ago, trying to tell you how to fix the tags.

Btw if a whole paragraph is from a single passage in a source, you can put that one citation, one time, at the end of the paragraph. Jytdog (talk) 04:57, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I will go back into the sources and see if I can replicate your way of fixing the tags. Thanks for the advise! TrinityLeonis (talk) 21:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)