User talk:Celmck

Welcome

Hello, Celmck, and welcome to Wikipedia! We are excited to hear that you are interested in helping out at Featured article Alzheimer's disease, which has fallen into disrepair. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages that you might find helpful. If you need interactive assistance please visit the talk page of the WikiProject Medicine, where we hang out and share concerns about medical content.

Here are some general links:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

If you need help, we will be right there at Talk:Alzheimer's disease to answer queries, or you can post to my talk page. Working on a Featured article is a challenging place to start, because they have additional requirements, explained at What is a Featured article. For example, there is an existing citation style, and we should be sure to follow all of the guidance at WP:MEDRS and WP:MEDMOS. Another general overview for Featured articles is at User:SandyGeorgia/Achieving excellence through featured content. You'll find already a list at the talk page of Alzheimer's of things that, at minimum, need to be addressed, but I'm sure there is more.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Happy to have you on board! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:31, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SandyGeorgia: Thanks for the welcome! I'm currently trying to get a sense of the rules/standards so I don't go and make a bunch of unhelpful changes. I have also been checking out your previous list of things to edit and making my own notes on the article. I think I can take on some of the bigger sections while pointing out easy ways for other sections to be updated if others can help out. There are certainly a lot of old references as well as random, non-mainstream ideas about AD, so these are easy to find. I'll run a summary and list of suggestions by Ajpolino soon and then if it sounds good post it to the talk page. Thanks for the resources! I'm looking forward to getting started. Celmck (talk) 03:57, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Celmck! I see you roared right through those training modules :) Please don't view my list as comprehensive; it was just a starting place. I might be able to help out, but be forewarned: I know how to edit Wikipedia, I know how to write a Featured article, I know dementia with Lewy bodies ('cuz I wrote it), but I have no medical background. I came to my interest in medical editing via my background in statistics and understanding of sampling biases and methodological issues in studies. Yes, the old references are an issue; see WP:MEDDATE. As you are reading, and if you are able, we should be upgrading any older sources to newer ones where possible. Even if the text doesn't change. Also, because newer standards require page numbers (see Ajpolino's Buruli ulcer and my dementia with Lewy bodies), we should be noting those as we go. Even if how to format the citations is work you don't want to take on, I can go along behind you and fix the citations. So, wherever you can cite a page number, you can just add it to the citation with a Template:Rp, and I can convert them. I hope this is fun for you! I have your talk page watchlisted, and will see any queries you post here (or on the article talk page), and respond. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:22, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]