Cboglarsky

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Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia. I have compiled a list of guidance for students and 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. 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 your fellow learners and instructors.

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

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The Team at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:43, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Nice work!

		The WikiCookie
		You've learned how to use basic wikicode in your sandbox. You can always return there to experiment more.

Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Cboglarsky (talk) 16:50, 7 May 2015 (UTC)