User talk:Annaou

This user is a student editor in UC_Berkeley/Grappling_with_Global_Poverty_(Spring_2018) .

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Hello, Annaou, 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.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Selecting possible articles

Area

Health care in the United States
Medi-Cal

Sector

Social safety net
Free Clinic
Berkeley Free Clinic

Sourcing and healthcare in teh US

Hi! I noticed that you edited the article on healthcare in the US. I wanted to give you a quick head's up about the article. It's held under discretionary sanctions, which essentially means that the article is subject to higher scrutiny than others may be. What this means for you is that you need to make sure that you're using the best possible sourcing and writing as neutrally as possible. Your writing style looks fine, but I did want to give you a quick warning about using studies.

Studies are seen as primary sources on Wikipedia for any information or claims made in the report. Even if the study is conducted by reputable people or published via notable outlets, it's still seen as a primary source since the publishing outlet usually doesn't give any sort of input on the study - they just make sure that it's not obviously wrong. This means that in order to use this material, you need to show where the study's content has been reviewed by a separate reliable source. Looking at the sourcing you have, I don't think that it will really be that hard to find a secondary source - I actually found this one that you could use for the CDC statistics study. I just wanted to give you a little bit of a warning about this since you want to make sure to do this extra step when using studies as a source. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:57, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]