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Hello, Sarahchongrx, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:57, 29 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


Plagiarism warning

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Hi, your recent edits to an article generated an automatic plagiarism warning from Wikipedia (these are sent to both me and Sharon). Please review them and revise as necessary. Thanks.

Copying licensed material requires attribution

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Hi. I see in a recent addition to Misoprostol you included material from a webpage that is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Asher's Peer Review

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Per the Wikipedia peer review "Guiding framework," the group's edits have a clear structure and balance coverage on each sub-title. In addition, the group has mostly achieved their overall goals for improvement, such as adding a new section of "Contraindications" and "Monitoring parameters." There are some pharmacokinetic information in terms of "Efficacy;" however, the group did not add in information in regards to interactions of misoprostol. From reading the group's edits, the draft submission do seem to have a neutral point of view. There are no particular idea or position that the writer is trying to persuade or convey to the reader. Asher1026 (talk) 20:42, 5 August 2019 (UTC)asher1026Reply

Hi Asher, thanks for your peer review! Our group considered adding interactions with misoprostol, however, we had difficulty finding secondary articles on this topic that were published in the past 4-5 years. This is a section we are still considering adding to the article if we find articles recently published. Sarahchongrx (talk) 16:21, 9 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Welcome

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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.
  3. Please use high-quality, recent, secondary sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS; for the difference between primary and secondary sources, see the WP:MEDDEF section.) 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. We don't use terms like "currently", "recently," "now", or "today". See WP:RELTIME.
  6. More generally see WP:MEDHOW, which gives great tips for editing about health -- for example, it provides a way to format citations quickly and easily
  7. Citation details are important:
    • Be sure cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books
    • Please include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article, and please format citations consistently within an article.
    • Do not use URLs from your university library that have "proxy" in them: the rest of the world cannot see them.
    • Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
  8. We use very few capital letters (see WP:MOSCAPS) and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
  9. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities. Avoid overlinking!
  10. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
  11. 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) 05:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)Reply