User talk:Marlenemayman

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Hello, Marlenemayman! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! MrBill3 (talk) 05:21, 24 October 2014 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 08:42, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Re: Myofascial release

You don't need to cross post messages on my talk page from the talk page of an article, I use my watchlist to keep an eye on articles and talk pages I am involved in editing (if you are concerned someone will miss a message on an article talk page just a pointer will do, or you can use the Talkback template). Once an edit you have made has been reverted it is good practice to get consensus support on talk before redoing them. The essay BOLD, revert, discuss cycle (called BRD) provides good guidance. While you may get some slack as a new editor medical articles are watched by a number of editors and some are quick to object to edit warring (EW) and The three-revert rule (3RR) is pretty stringently enforced. You have presented a pretty decent argument on talk so there may be some consensus support for including something from the studies you have pointed to. MEDRS points to using the best available sources, RCTs in the absence of reviews or other secondary sources carry some weight. I happen to find the studies you point to problematic as I stated on talk, but others may weigh in with different opinions. I am willing to yield to a reasonable consensus that is policy based and supported by quality references (really I am). I strongly suggest doing some general editing in other areas that are less contentious to gain some experience. I have a pretty strong suite of research tools and am available to provide research assistance, just leave a message on my talk page and let me know what you are working on. I am in no way attempting to discourage you from editing medical articles or from putting fourth and arguing for proposals/edits in them, just saying there are easier subjects to get your feet wet with. Best wishes and happy editing. - - MrBill3 (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

BTW if the research being done on massage is decent it will wind up getting reviewed by Cochrane or other major journals, its just a matter of time. I posted this here because the talk page of the article is for improving the article and user talk pages are more wide open. PS use four tildes ~~~~ to sign. - - MrBill3 (talk) 09:19, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

A couple of notes

I notice you are using essentially your real name as your username and have posted your real name, profession and professional locations on your user page. I salute your transparency but feel I would be remiss not to let you know you can edit WP anonymously. Since you identified WV as a location let me give you a hearty mountaineer welcome. I am a West Virginia University alumni.

As you have identified yourself as a "medical massage therapist" I think you probably have a conflict of interest (COI) in regards to Myofascial release. If you acknowledge such a COI it is better to propose changes on talk rather than edit directly and required that you provide a COI statement. Perhaps identifying yourself as a medical massage therapist on your user page is adequate. I don't have a big issue with COI editors as long as they follow policies and guidelines, others are a little more hard line. If you choose to start a new account and edit anonymously and you have a COI it is still required that you disclose it but it can be non specific, simply a statement that you have a COI in certain subjects, not why etc. Best. - - MrBill3 (talk) 09:06, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi MrBill3, thanks for the kind advice and pointers. I'm in Shepherdstown, so barely in WV, but I love it here! In any case, I'll poke around at the links you've included in your various comments. Didn't think about the conflict of interest issue. I honestly don't know how much more editing I'll find myself doing on Wikipedia as I'm usually pretty busy with my two offices. Be well and again, thanks for your kindness. Cheers, Marlene 68.49.253.115 (talk) 15:22, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

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