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Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled a list of guidance for new editors:

  1. Use high quality sources for medical content. This is described at WP:MEDRS. High quality sources include review articles (note this is not the same as peer reviewed), position statements from national and internationally recognized bodies (think CDC, WHO, NICE, FDA, etc), and major medical textbooks. Lower quality sources may be removed.
  2. References go after not before punctuation (see WP:MOS)
  3. We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
  4. Do not use the url from the inside net of your university library. The rest of the world cannot see it.
  5. If you use textbooks we need page numbers.
  6. Please format your references as explained at WP:MEDHOW or like the ones already in the article. This is simple once you get the PMID / ISBN.
  7. Every sentence can be referenced. We reference more densely than other sources.
  8. Never "copy and paste" from sources. We run copy and paste detection software on new edits.
  9. Section order typically follows the instructions here at WP:MEDMOS
  10. Please talk to us. Wikipedia works by collaboration and this takes place on the talk pages of both articles and user.

Again welcome and thank you for joining us.

P.S. Please share this with fellow new editors.

James Heilman a.k.a User:Doc James
MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of British Columbia

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The Team at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:28, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

November 2015

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Central venous catheter has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 06:22, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Central venous catheter. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Materialscientist (talk) 22:01, 12 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Yes looks like you may be having some problems with the visual editor. But looks like you have figured it out :-) Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:32, 15 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
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The images here https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19861.htm are not under an open license unfortunately. The US gov has paid for the permission to use but did not produce the image. Thus removed it from the article in question. Yes I know it is complicated :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:17, 15 November 2015 (UTC)Reply