Willpolydna

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Welcome + MEDRS

Welcome, I note your edit on herpes simplex. Please review the guideline for selecting reliable sources for medical content WP:MEDRS. Reviews, ideally systematic reviews/meta analyses published in peer review journals, and mainstream textbooks. Kind regards, Lesion (talk) 12:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Journal seems ok, have not checked in detail. Issue is this is a primary source. For medical content, Wikipedia uses secondary sources (i.e. reviews, ideally systematic reviews and meta analyses) or tertiary sources (i.e. medical textbooks). For this reason, do not tend to keep up with "breaking science", and mainstream view which often lags behind new developments. Lesion (talk) 13:47, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

No, I disagree. If no secondary or tertiary source is available then this indicates that aspect of a topic is not (yet) notable for the encyclopedia. Much content slips through the net, or exists from historic edits before WP:RS and WP:MEDRS were developed and as strictly enforced. If you wish to edit medical topics on wikipedia, it is advisable to soundly grasp the MEDRS concept of avoiding primary sources, or editors will very likely remove the majority of your hard work sooner or later. Lesion (talk) 14:29, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

3RR note

Please review WP:3RR, WP:EDITWAR and WP:BRD. Edit warring is a bright line that shouldn't be crossed on Wikipedia because it can result in a block. Please go to the article talk pages to discuss your edits. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

References

Please use high quality references per WP:MEDRS such as review articles or major textbooks. Note that review articles are NOT the same as peer reviewed articles. A good place to find medical sources is TRIP database Thanks.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)