User talk:Medical.student
Welcome
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:
- Use high-quality sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed.
- Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
- We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
- Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
- Do not use URLs from your university library's internal net: the rest of the world cannot see them.
- Include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
- Format references consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW.
- Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
- The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS.
- Think carefully before working on featured articles (these have a gold star at top right). It is often hard to improve featured articles.
- Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.
Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us. Please share these guidelines with other new editors.
– the WikiProject Medicine team
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:09, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Creating an article
[edit]Hi, I noticed you asked for help on another editor's talkpage. I'm here to ask you to kindly read WP:Your first article before proceeding. You could be going down a path that ends in frustration, especially if you don't have WP:Reliable sources for what you want to write about. After you have created what you think is ready to submit, feel free to drop a note here to have a look and I will, time permitting, give what advice I can. I've created a few articles myself and think I have a good feel for what they need to be accepted. - Brianhe (talk) 20:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)