Tikisim

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:43, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I must have forgotten to cite the actual journal I got the quote from, and only cited the ones that the article relied upon. Next time I will be more cautious with my quotation marks as well. Tikisim (talk) 04:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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Toxic shock syndrome

Hello, thanks for your edit to toxic shock syndrome. However, I have adjusted the citation style you used; it would be better to use the Visual Editor's automatic citation system, where you paste in the DOI/PMID and it does the rest of the formatting work for you. See the relevant section in the VisualEditor user guide. Also, I've replaced terms like "pyrexia" and "hypotension" with plainer English words; see the technical terminology section of the medical manual of style. Graham87 02:08, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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Edit summaries

I noticed that your Edit summaries are so short ("Added content") as to not be informative. Please consider a bit more information, for example what section edited and what you did, for example "Added text and references to Diagnosis." David notMD (talk) 16:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Papaya, you may be blocked from editing. Please read WP:MEDRS and use reviews as sources for medical content. Zefr (talk) 04:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Anterior cingulate cortex. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. This edit is a mess. Please slow down and review the Manual of Style. On several articles where I have reviewed your edits, you are using <nowiki> formats (not needed) and ignoring conventional formatting of WP:MOS. See WP:CIT for citing references and using correct formats. Zefr (talk) 04:48, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Citer

Citer is a useful tool for formatting sources. Use the DOI, URL, PMID, PMC or ISBN (books) ID from the upper left pick list, click "submit", then copy the resulting formatted reference into the article. Also, observe WP:REFPUNCT - the punctuation comes before, not after, the citation. Zefr (talk) 04:54, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Chili pepper, you may be blocked from editing. Your edit here was an egregious overinterpretation of lab studies (which we don't use in sections entitled "medicinal", "health effects" or "nutrition" because they are too preliminary to be interpreted for an encyclopedia. Use WP:MEDRS reviews. Further, stating the chili pepper consumption had effects on cardiovascular disease or cancer was also beyond the actual conclusion from the authors of the review - read the article. They point out the studies were of poor quality and only 4 studies out of thousands could be used. Your edits have potential to mislead non-scientific users. Zefr (talk) 21:27, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Patellar dislocation, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Don't use "emerging" sources - that is usually primary research too preliminary for an encyclopedia. Use WP:MEDRS reviews. Zefr (talk) 21:47, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

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August 2023

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to insert fringe or undue weight content into articles, as you did to Tannic acid, you may be blocked from editing. Articles on Wikipedia do not give fringe material equal weight to majority viewpoints; content in articles are given representation in proportion to their prominence. Read WP:MEDRS - none of the sources you added come close to meeting that standard. You seem to be ignoring prior warnings about putting misinformation from non-MEDRS sources into articles. Zefr (talk) 03:14, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

@Zefr: Sorry for any troubles I caused. If you have time, could you tell me which sources you disagreed with and explain why they are unreliable?Tikisim (talk) 03:46, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

You are a concern for editing medical content on Wikipedia because you have diverse activity across many topics, but your addition of dubious content from unreliable sources is suspect, as it does not adhere to MEDRS. Take the time to read the whole guideline, paying particular attention to WP:MEDASSESS which defines the hierarchy for choosing high-quality sources.

In the tannic acid article, you added sources from chemistry (not MEDRS), alternative medicine (unreliable for medical content) in a Hindawi journal (listed as low-quality and unreliable on WP:CITEWATCH), and a phytotherapy journal (not MEDRS).

You also often refer to emerging trends. Do not do this, as it is your opinion, WP:SYNTH, unless it is stated in a MEDRS review article.

Also, repeatedly in several articles, you do not adhere to WP:REFNAME. Once a source is used and formatted with a name, the next time it is used should not include the whole reference again, but rather its refname is applied. Your edits need to be screened for accuracy by other editors, consuming time unnecessarily. Please learn and follow the refname procedure. Zefr (talk) 16:13, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

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