User talk:DianeNguyenn

This user is a student editor in Rhode_Island_School_of_Design/Intro_to_Women's,_Gender_and_Sexuality_Studies-16_(Spring_2023) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:37, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Writing about medical topics on Wikipedia

Hi, DianeNguyenn. Thank you for your recent edit to Gender-affirming surgery and your interest in improving Wikipedia's rather incomplete coverage of that topic. However, I've had to revert that edit, for reasons I've explained in this edit. I wanted to elaborate on that revert here. I don't wish to dissuade you from improving an article that is, again, definitely in need of improvement, but writing about medical topics on Wikipedia is hard. If you do wish to take another stab at that edit, you should be prepared to do some serious searching through peer-reviewed secondary medical sources for every biomedical statement of fact. If you'd like to do that, great! I'd be happy to help to the extent I'm available. But it's my understanding that you are editing as part of a class, and this might be a daunting proposition in that context, so you might be better off writing about a less medically-oriented aspect of the women and gender studies area. (For instance, we have very little coverage of the sociology of transgender sexuality, just to pick one thing I've personally written about here.) -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 05:28, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]