User talk:Pebbles1.0/Research question

Hi Pebbles1.0 a few things:

• References should always come directly after punctuation, not before. So it should be sentence, period, reference, space, sentence.
• Book titles should be italicized (Designing Clinical Research), not in quotation marks
• "et al." is not italicized on Wikipedia, as it is widely used in English and not considered "foreign"
• You don't have any references in the PICOT section. Who came up with these recommendations?
• Also a note about leads--I see that the lead for the article has a citation needed tag in it. That isn't correct. Leads (as they are simply synopses of the body of the article) are not required to have citations at all (though it is best practice to include citations for direct quotes, controversial claims, or statistics). It appears many of your larger edits are removing text, which is fine. I'm a little scarce on feedback I can give you at this time, however.

Regarding your question: One specific question I have is about the FINER criteria - they were originally published in a book which I can find sections of online, but then have been reproduced ("with permission from Wolters-Kluwer) in the paper I also reference. Is it then okay to put this on Wikipedia?

Citing the book that it is published in is an acceptable source. You will not be violating copyright as long as you are paraphrasing when possible and provide attribution to the source where you acquired the information. It is fine (even preferable) that the sources is secondary, and not the source where the criteria were originally published. I hope that answers your question (and that I understand it correctly!) Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:16, 15 October 2019 (UTC)