Welcome

edit
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 Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Wikipedia! A few pointers

edit

Thanks for your help improving the articles. I have a few pointers as you begin your Wiki journey  :)

  1. Please insert citations using the PMID citation tool. This autofills the citation template and gives readers lots of information about your citation. If you need more help, I am happy to give you assistance finding it.
  2. Add citations after the period, with no space. Like this.[1]
  3. Please be sure to paraphrase the conclusions or any evidence you are adding to the articles. We are not permitted to copy and paste from publications.

Here is an example (for your learning) of some changes to your recent additions, a few tweaks, but we appreciate your efforts and are happy to see a new medical editor working to improve the quality of the articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breastfeeding_promotion&type=revision&diff=830466779&oldid=830348790 Thanks again for your contributions! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

JenOttawa (talk) 00:39, 15 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

edit
  The Original Barnstar
Your work is looking good. Thanks :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:15, 16 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
I agree! Great work so far. Thank you for your strong contribution! JenOttawa (talk) 02:18, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

A Barn Star for your Wikipedia work!

edit
  Scholarly Barnstar
Thank you for your work helping improve the quality of medical articles JenOttawa (talk) 01:46, 9 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you!

edit

Thank you for contributing to the Cochrane bot update page. The bot is still running and finding more updates, it takes a few days to get through Wikipedia! Your help with the project is greatly appreciated. If I can help in any way or you have any ideas for the Cochrane-Wikipedia collaboration, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Thank you again,

Jenny

  The Barnstar of Diligence
Your continuous efforts to improve medical articles on Wikipedia is outstanding. We are fortunate to have experts like you volunteering to improve medical content. Thank you! JenOttawa (talk) 17:37, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Update performed

edit

Hello Hebatullah, I hope that you are well. You are doing a great job with the Wikipedia editing. I updated all the Cochrane Review Groups Pages late last week. If you see any errors please do not hesitate to let me know.It is my goal to do this 4 x's a year so that new reviews are ready to be considered for Wikipedia. If you have any suggestions please do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you again!

Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 13:06, 7 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

edit
 Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message

edit
 Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:53, 24 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

  1. ^ Balogun, OO; O'Sullivan, EJ; McFadden, A; Ota, E; Gavine, A; Garner, CD; Renfrew, MJ; MacGillivray, S (9 November 2016). "Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding". The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 11: CD001688. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001688.pub3. PMID 27827515.